dlaw008 wrote: If it really is true that the last commander cannot willingly leave and the only way to become a commanderless alliance is by having a cheater sandboxes, then they really ought to be disbanded. I have seen more aggravation and griping about people whose alliances cannot place well because of size than almost anything else. Disbanding cheater alliances would be at least some balm to those complaints.
Interruptor wrote: The whole alliance thing is still forming up, so let's remember most players aren't on the forum. So some of them get in a cheaters alliance who gets ousted, they don't know what the tinykitty is going on. If devs just break those alliances without any word to the members we might see a lot of people just quitting. The whole alliance matter is pretty confusing to non-forum players
MaxCavalera wrote: Ok I was curious about this because I too heard someone claim the last commander couldn't leave an Alliance. That is false I just farmed 2500 iso and created an alliance on my laptop and left it... There was no one else in it so it dissolved.
MaxCavalera wrote: Interruptor wrote: The whole alliance thing is still forming up, so let's remember most players aren't on the forum. So some of them get in a cheaters alliance who gets ousted, they don't know what the tinykitty is going on. If devs just break those alliances without any word to the members we might see a lot of people just quitting. The whole alliance matter is pretty confusing to non-forum players If you just join a public alliance w/o being invited there is a possibility of getting booted already. People in these alliances might try to find out **** happened and end up here on the forum. If no one in the current alliance contributed any HP to roster expansion I really do not see any down side to making them go POOF.
dlaw008 wrote: I've been curious about how many alliances have expanded to 20 members.
Justdangit wrote: Interruptor wrote: The whole alliance thing is still forming up, so let's remember most players aren't on the forum. So some of them get in a cheaters alliance who gets ousted, they don't know what the tinykitty is going on. If devs just break those alliances without any word to the members we might see a lot of people just quitting. The whole alliance matter is pretty confusing to non-forum players The people joining cheated alliance didnt spent anything on roster slot. They already benefited from illegitimate player. They are not losing anything from getting remove from an illegitimate alliance. On the other hand people who legitimately paid for member slot are losing out on reward because they are given out to cheated alliances. You will lose at lot more player this way. Also remember, people who legitimately increase their roster slot are most likely willing to spend on the game as oppose to people who are freeloader and doesnt even visit the forum. MaxCavalera wrote: Ok I was curious about this because I too heard someone claim the last commander couldn't leave an Alliance. That is false I just farmed 2500 iso and created an alliance on my laptop and left it... There was no one else in it so it dissolved. I was the one who claim that fact and it is not false. This only happen because you are the only member in the alliance. Have you ever think how stupid would it be if you would prevent someone from leaving an alliance when he/she is the only member there?. If there are 2 or more member in an alliance and you are the only commander. You cant not leave until you make someone else the commander.
Atren wrote: This issue is not so simple and it actually comes down to how alliances are handled especially member numbers. While it is easy to make money with it now we have to deal with possibility of cheater effecting far more players with persisting effects even after said cheater removed. I guess a lot depends how well are player actions logged and how long those logs kept. It is easy to say commander cheated and should delete alliance as he bought those places with hacked money...but are you sure that happened? What if someone else bought some of them or even cheater before he started cheating. Do you delete entire alliance still, those spots and who do you boot from alliance if reduced slots.