I just remember that back in the day it was a rigged game. On day one of a new round there would be players with huge scores so massive after just a few hours and turns that no one could challenge them. I was lucky enough to join a good Alliance and later discovered that one of the players of that alliance was also a Tribes player. He was a top 20 player of Planetarion and one night on a Tribes server he let the nasty cat out of the bag that most of the high ranking players started the game that way.
I never played it after that but always wanted to run a game like that so that I could run it fair.