Mainly in the interest of not having to repeat myself every time someone joins, I thought I’d jot down a few notes about our alliance so everyone can be on the same page when they join and know what we’re about.
What are we about?
- Having fun! It’s a game people
- You don’t have to be chatty, but we do seek people that communicate. Introduce yourself when you join, let us know who you are, engage people in conversation when you can. If we don’t hear from you, we don’t know if you’re active, so it makes us hesitant to include you in alliance activities like world wars.
- Contribute! Be a contributing member of the alliance. That can include a mixture of the following:
- Participate in world wars. TAKE BOTH YOUR ATTACKS! We typically war 2-3 times a week.
- Donate to alliance members
- Ask/answer questions, give feedback on people’s bases, be friendly and helpful.
- Improving. There’s not a single one of us that can’t improve and that means we should always be open to suggestions and input from others.
- Winning. While not the only goal, it’s certainly a fun one. Will we be a top 100 team? Well, maybe not as long as there’s stacker alliances in world wars (alliances that include several bogus iron age/classical bases to bring their average ranking down in order to get easier opponents), cheaters, and alliances that spend vast amounts of money. But, could we be included in the top 100 alliances that don’t do those things – maybe!
- And, related to above, we’re not a stacker alliance. Even though it would make our lives a lot easier, we consider that to be cheating and won’t participate. We’re hoping that somehow, someway Nexon will get their act together and fix it so we can have some fair matchups.
And, just a couple of practical things:
- For world wars, we will send out your first attack assignments in your inbox. The assignments will look something like this: 1-3&4, 2-5, 3-6, 4-7… [Translation: our alliance #1 player should attack the #3 and #4 enemy, our #2 their #5, etc]. Second attacks will usually be assigned in chat either by the leaders suggestion or your request.
- For world war bases, please get permission to donate. Currently, atomic age players will be donating to war bases to get the strongest possible troops for the bases.
- Check your inbox for messages.
- Scan chat when you log on, particularly for any colored text which is typically from the leadership.
- We use the LINE app for out-of-game communication, to exchange screenshots of enemy bases, etc. To join the LINE channel, search for the player Alexnder90 and he can hook you up.
Things that might indicate ‘it’s just not working out’:
- Missing attacks in wars. Things happen, technology fails, etc. But, if you miss an attack, please let us know what happened. Consistent missing of war attacks isn’t fair to those that participate in wars and expend their hard earned resources to win.
- Not ever speaking. If you don’t say anything, we don’t know you’re active. If you’re not active, maybe this alliance isn’t a good fit for you?
- Always being unavailable for wars. While participation in wars isn’t mandatory, we’d like to have everyone participate from time to time. If you’re always marked as unavailable, then maybe this alliance isn’t a good fit for you?
- Never donating. While lower age players may not have strong troops to offer, at least be willing and ask if the requester would like your troops.
- Being unwilling to take constructive criticisms of your base, attacks, troop selection, etc. We’re all in this to help each other!
- Being away for more than 7 days without letting someone know. If you haven’t been in the alliance long, it’ll probably be less than 7 days.
- Being a jerk. Life’s too short to play a game with unpleasant people.
Well, that certainly seems like a lot of rules, but I’m hoping a lot of this kind of thing is common sense. At least, common sense to the kind of people we’d like to have in our alliance. 🙂
Please let us know if you have any questions and let’s have fun!
Dave
Alliance page for the American Hawks 