It's not legitimate in the traditional sense of netgaining. There are plenty of newbs that will argue differently, but the fact is landtrading

While I see it as a problem that most people are creating this new idea of what netgaining is which it is essentially based on how much aid you want to get, I suppose not everyone sees that as a problem/illegitimate.

Some fool that has no idea about netgaining will soon enough come out with the "its an alliance server" line, they always do.