Couple of anecdotal things.
Years ago a bunch of squad CO's decided to show Hitech that players in the MA could in fact be organized into an air force and carry out a mission for the duration of an evening. That being to shut down the MA by organized force of numbers. Anecdotally: That organized block of players represented a driving force of game control by accident that would have taken control of the MA from HTC at the whim of the CO's organizing it. To retain control Hitech created ENY which has remained pretty benign until recently.
Anecdotally: Recently ENY seems to kick in for the knights and bish as an almost nightly effect around the same time periods in prime time. It's like suddenly there is a block of rooks gone from the arena or in the two other countries. Late night after prime time ENY is unfortunately a product low numbers.
By accident years ago a group of organized players forced Hitech to create an arena modifying mechanism. Ok, so I asked myself, self, if I wanted ENY modifed today with the current low numbers, how could I impact the arena to force Hitech to respond and change ENY? Organize a player walkout or country alternating night shift at a specific time to trigger ENY as many nights a week as possible. The screeching in the forums would ramp up to a MOB level something like the 12 hour insurrection by the old muppet squad. And ENY itself would be it's own worst enemy due to players logging out and maybe threatening subscription cancellations.
Then reality took control and I thought to myself, self, these guys love this game too much to take a chance on killing it to try and force Hitech to do what they wanted. Anecdotally: POTW changed to rooks one squad night thinking our 16 players would be enough to even the sides to return ENY to "0". Our numbers did diddlysquat to the ENY monster and all the fights suddenly disappeared that we were watching on the map minutes before......
I seriously doubt anyone is this well organized in the MA anymore.
So back to your regularly scheduled "I'm unhappy hear me screech!" programming......