Introduction
An alliance is a formal linkage founded by one player and able to be joined by other players.
It requires an embassy. To create an alliance is straightforward. To found an alliance, you must have at least one level-three embassy. Once you're ready, click on your embassy, give your alliance a name and a tag, then click "Found Alliance".
In order to accept members, you need to transfer points to that alliance. This is a common problem that is not always obvious. Click on your embassy: on the left hand side there's an option to transfer points. Choose how many you want to transfer, then you will have open slots for members to join.
Note: Transferring, or "donating", diplomatic points to an alliance may no longer be possible in the current version of the game.
Alliance information page
If you see that a player is in an alliance, clicking on its name gives a display like this:
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- Alliance
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- Members: 27
- Short description:
- Placement: 33 (31,845,738)
- Alliance page: -
Treaties with United Ikariam
External alliance page www.xkcd.com
Specific alliances
Any contributor is welcome to create a page on this wiki for any alliance. We have a page Ikariam:Alliances for suggested layouts.
Page names could be best prefixed "Allianz", e.g. Allianz Roman Empire, so as to avoid possible confusion. Where there are two servers with alliances of the same name, that page will be a disambiguation page with links to individual pages such as Allianz Roman Empire on Server/uk/Kappa .
Lists of alliances on each server will be of interest too. They can include a snapshot of the top 100 alliances on a specific date. See one at Alliances on Server/uk/Kappa. They should have links to any alliances for which a separate page is created or is expected to be.
Breakdown of alliance ranks and roles
Alliance administration
When you are a part of alliance you will see some more options which will show at the left side of screen while staying in embassy. (Some options are available only for leader and/or other ministers).
Member options
- Send circular message - send message to everyone in your alliance
- Quit - leave your alliance
General option
Overview of the troops - you will see detailed information about the number and type of units/ships each player in your alliance has. (not divided to colonies)
Home Secretary/Interior Minister options
- View resources - you will see info about how many resources member have currently in his/her warehouses (resources in trade post and being already transferred are not counted; Not divided to colonies)
- Edit internal alliance page - enables editing internal alliance page (internal page is visible only for alliance members)
Diplomat option
- Edit external alliance page - enables editing external alliance page and sets homepage http address (external page is visible to everyone - people who are not members of your alliance will see it too.
Leader options
- Edit alliance - here you can change alliance name, tag/token and edit your alliance short description
- Distribute posts - here you can appoint Diplomat, General and Home Secretary (alliance founder have all those functions by default when create alliance)
- Hand over the alliance leadership - here you can give leadership to someone else
- Break up alliance - Erase your alliance from history -> everyone will lose alliance membership and alliance will disappear from existence
- Transfer diplomacy points - here you can sacrifice your diplomatic points and turn them into "Alliance diplomatic points" (here you can also turn unused alliance diplomatic points into your diplomatic points)
- Bonus resources - list with resources which each alliance members send to leader.. still not implemented.
Alliance ranks
Leader
- Receives a small amount of bonus resources every day, dependent on the number and strength of the individual alliance members.(not implemented)
- Can change the name and tag of the alliance.
- Can assign the important posts (diplomat, general and interior minister)
- Can disband the alliance.
- Can appoint a new leader, provided they have enough free diplomat points to assume leadership of the alliance.
Home Secretary/Interior Minister
- Responsible for the admission of new members and the dismissal of old members from the alliance.
- Can see the resources of all alliance members.
- Can determine and assign the ranks within the alliance.
- Can edit the internal alliance site. This is only viewable to alliance members.
General
- Can see all the troops and war ships of members.
- Can see all attacks from or on members of the alliance.
- Can call back attacks from alliance members.
Diplomat
- Can edit external alliance site. This is the site that non-members see when they want to look at the alliance.
- Can manage alliance agreement.
- Can see the alliance partners of all alliance members.
- Receives messages sent to the alliance.
Member
- Can send circular messages