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hmm maybe a super weapon to destory all the defense weapons you seem to want everyone to keep.? SuperSaiyan wrote:I have a two part suggestion.
Empires.
Part 1) Initial Alliance Bank purchase is to form the empire itself.
Part 2) Second part would be for an alliance to request to join an empire.
Part 1) Empire Purchase
I think this one should be fairly expensive. Maybe a tril from the bank? Empires could basically be an alliance of alliances. It could have an Empire leader/2ic, with Empire wide messages and empire wide logs.
Empire Leader/2ic: Capable of sending empire wide messages. Seeing the Empire incoming/outgoing attack logs. Declare Empire War. And pretty much everything else alliances can do (although I think alliance relations won't be needed on this big a scale).
Alliance Leaders would be able to vote for the empire leader. Via ID or Username into a submission box. Anyone in the empire can be elected the leader, regardless if they are a leader of an alliance or not, they just need to be in the empire for it to accept the vote.
Part 2) Alliance Joining
After initial creation, the alliance leader of the founding alliance would be default "Emperor". From there he/she could see the applicant alliances and either accept or decline. With each new addition to the empire more people can be possibly elected empire leader and gain access to the empire management page. Perhaps voting for someone can cost something too? I thought of the possibility of a tie, for even numbers of votes. In the event of a tie, founding alliance's vote should take precedence.
I'm not sure how it would effect houses though. I would think alliances should still be able to go to whatever house they want, instead of making a house an empire decision. Perhaps in the rankings have an "Empire Rankings" page with race/co/alliance&house or maybe add it to alliance&house? Not sure.
I think Empires should have a full name, but also shortened tag options as well. So on an alliance page it would read "They of Alliance of GWE" instead of "They of Alliance of GateWars Empire" or something to that effect.
I don't know if this is something you would want to do, or if anyone else thinks its a good idea. Just thought I'd toss it out there as I know its been suggested a lot in the past, especially when houses were introduced. I don't know how this would affect game lag, so that may or may not be something to consider as well.
There are plenty of ways to do empires, this is just a way I thought of doing it in relation to the alliance bank as per the thread topic suggest you are looking for.
SuperSaiyan wrote:Deadliest Wes wrote:If the stuff in the bank gets two expensive then you need to open up a tax rate, smaller alliances wont be able to cope with the big expenses
Either that or make the cost relative to the amount in the bank?
brackets of cost-to-saved or just a percentage instead of flat amount.
but yeah, you have a good point.
if you are a commander you can get officer details. why cant alliance leader see their alliance mates details, and have it where you can see people's ME. If people want privacy(idk why they would from your alliance leader) their can be a check box to select if you want to show your ME to the alliance. and when u add more stuff to the gifts you need to add a bank log, so we can see what the leaders are buying and when 
Robe wrote:A Visit to the Back Room
When you visit the Back Room for a modest fee you could join a card game.
Depending on your wager (and how your hand goes) you could win a range of gifts for all members
with some outcomes better than others...
For example every member could receive any one of the following random gifts:
1k AT, 1t Naq, an Alliance Repair, 1 hour PPT or Increased bank by 1%
or lose their hand
or receive a second chance draw...
The outcome would need to be random and the ability to wager limited to double or nothing.
Visits would need to be limited to once a day so they didn't significantly affect game play.
Alliance Tax Rate
Many players have previously suggested that the Tax Rate should be adjustable and I agree that this is a good idea.
Command Functions
Only the Leader should be able to join or quit a house.
Showcase Power Level
Should be removed because it doesn't do anything.
Attack Turns
I agree with Couzens in that AT should be a new gift that you can purchase for the alliance.
Alliance PPT
Alliances should be able to use PPT as they see fit and not be grouped into 4 x 3 hours.
Grouping the PPT has unnecessarily reduced its functionality for different alliance requirements.
Alliance Repairs
I also agree with Jorgensen that Alliance Repairs should not have been reduced from 480 to 36 a day (93%).
Cost of Gifts
The formula for costing gifts has jumped off the sanity scale and is need of urgent review.
The cost of Alliance Repairs and increasing alliance banks went from 2b to 400b (20k % and rising).
The cost of Alliance PPT went from approx 2b to 600b (30k % and rising).
In just 12 hours later the costs dramatically increased again
Alliance Repair went from 400b to 560b.
The Cost of Alliance PPT went from 600b to 840b.
Dubby_CompGamerGeek2 wrote:1% Natural Bank Size Increase now costs The Magnificents alliance 129+ billion naq?!
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and the rest of the useful upgrades are now similarly expensive?
and what of the alliances whose members have 1 Quad banks?
cuz we don't have anything close, nor is our alliance bank nearly so high.
this darn well better be a bug.
Anything can be abused.Lithium wrote:an ats gift for whole alliance could be abused , 10 members gets 1k each 10k for a cheap cost
