Here's how Red Star chooses it's players. We choose players based on the roles we need - we always field our own members over others(even if there are better players available for that role outside of RS), alliance and friends(we have a few that are out of alliance) get the next open spots and then out of alliance ringers. If you see us without a full team of Red Star then we are busy elsewhere. We usually end up with a few players from outside of Red Star in our matches(this is what alliances are for after all and certain roles are hard to come by in Red Star on occasion - hell, sometimes we're just looking for bodies to fill the slots).

What I've noticed is that a few corps consistently will use out of alliance ringers over their own members, then alliance ringers over their own members, then their own members. This is the situation that Sir Snugglz is referring to.