Let me tell you a story:
Last October ATS finally decided to get up off their laurels and try to take a neutral castle with 8000 troops all in cherburg armor, winged helmets and becs. Against them were 4000 lightly armored AI equipped troops. Half an hour into the battle ATS was down to 4000 troops while the neutral castle still had 2500 troops. This was a huge embarrassment; throwing 4000 troops and millions of gold down the drain just for a simple neutral castle. Then, the server goes down, the players fighting for the neutral castle didn't know that Gorath (formerly ATS) had reset the strategus server. 20 minutes later neutral players start trickling back into the server only to find that ATS was now back to 8000 troops and had surrounded the spawns. Obviously people were absolutely livid that such a blatant abuse would take place. When people started calling them out for what they were, cheaters, the ATS admins started kicking and banning people from the server.