200+ players, recruited at some time, on some world, is still mass recruiting.
Indeed, and sorry tfoxworthy, but you blokes wouldn't get so much flack if you wouldn't have tried to play it off as NOT mass recruiting.
If I was in an MRT (which I'm not) I would at least be fine with admitting it, I would own it and prove that even if I was in an MRT that we could still do well and not just because of numbers and prove it, not try and pretend that my tribe is not MRT related.
Reminds me of that server where the 200+ Russian players suddenly showed up and apparently made all the good players from the US quit the world out of annoyance as the Russian tribes owned 3 top tribes because they couldn't fit all of their players into one tribe, and then to make it worse (using the forum as my source) they took control of several tribes from the inside either by securing the founder slot (not sure on the details of that) or getting players into the council and convincing the rest to side with the Russian MRT war machine.
At least the Russian players admitted to the MRT thing, they mass recruited fellow Russian players for months on their forum (Apparently) before coming to that ONE US server.
I will say there is only two differences that I see here,
1: They admitted to mass recruiting, even if it was a different sort of mass recruiting than the usual type.
2: They didn't let the world know ahead of time that they were going to show up.
1: IMP refuses to admit any mass recruiting of any type.
2: IMP did warn the world ahead of time.