it's also genuinely insulting when people insinuate that earth players aren't somehow working for the bonus and get it just because they're, uh, a small flight? fire has the 2nd lowest flight population and you never see them placing just because they're small, because fire members aren't working all the time for the bonus. plague is a huge flight and they also place all the time because they put the work in too. idk, skill and community issue?