abuse? You mean all the mergers between ORS and GC? Or the Juutralian Remnant and the Empire? Or BDE and Farfalen?
Dolash still does that, but without the numbers. But he begins all of his posts with the words, "Except it didn't happen like that" which completley negates any storyline or the fun of doing the RP, which leads me to abandon the story completley, which leaves Dolash waiting for me to post.
Well no I was looking for what Ahnk thought of an example. But I think I can come up with something. Ten people start ten different factions, each one conquerors no more than 4 planets to avoid getting attack, then boom, super merger into a super faction with 40 planets and full fleet. That would be a big abuse of the rules.
I don't think anyone ever did that. But now that you mention it, excellent idea under the old rules. However some larger groups (or at least one in particular - TRE) did regularily try and force smaller groups into merging with the larger group.