70 % of the players in the mafia, APEX etc also weren't in their original guilds
Doubt that true of Apex. They play together in many games and all seem to know each other from somewhere.
TheFirm Ace2 wasn't the first version.
Mostly wasn't the same people as USA firm which was run by cheats and exploiters and had quite a few players banned. Ace2 firm was a handful of old Revival, Euro mafia, SA from Dragon and some P server people and a whole raft of hangers on from TrueFamily and other guilds. Some names in Ace2firm weren't allowed to join it on USA.
Ace2 Mafia didn't have a single player from euro mafia far as I could tell.
Not many guilds have the same players from server to server. Names get "stolen" guilds and chars
TrueFamily seems to crop up with many of the same players, Apex does, Evolution the Pserver players said they been playing together on every server since euro. Eclipse turns up and BlackWidows sometimes both with the same players if there's enough of them.
After that there's WORD and its splits and alliances and sub sets
Chinese guilds may or may not be Time Tunnel or ladyfirst its hard to tell. Anyone know?