Hi there...first...i really enjoyed the games last weekend too 
About the clan-stacking thingy:
A few months ago i told some friends to install FS and join me. We already had much fun in "Galactic Conquest", so they were all very excited about FS.
These were the times were a full 32 server was quite normal on saturdays.
So the first saturday with my friends, our team lost every round...some in just a few minutes and a look on the list made it clear: winner team was full of clan-tags (there are not many clans in FS i guess;), looser team was filled with names i mostly didnt read before.
The same occured the following saturday and again the same picture.
So my friends were absolutely de-motivated and since then they never played FS again.
It seems they are not the only one which came to that conclusion, looking at the number of payers in these days. I also remeber players of the loosing team writing in chat: "we loose every round
"
I have to say clearly: the clan stacking was a fact in these times!
I saw it on many evenings, always the same thing...clan mates try to get together, having "their" fun.
Its nothing new, it happens in all MP games and the result is everywhere the same: people leave the game (at least the server).
But when there is no alternative server -as in FS- they just dont come back to be the clan-food.
I can understand both sides.
With the few players left now there is at least on up-side: the clans are forced to split up.
So, apart from the technical problems people experience with FS, the clan-stacking phaenomena was just another "i dont play FS" problem.
in my opinion all this "we removed our tags and see they still whine"-excuses comes too late for a already near-dead patient....
I wanted to make that clear....because it makes me angry that FS suffers (suffered?) from such "soft" problems 
greetz
Daf