Alliance
Alliances are a core part of gameplay in Goodgame Empire. Players can join together with friends (or strangers) to create an alliance and gain access to many bonuses such as; the alliance smithy, bonuses to their attack speed, a friendly community, and many more.
Players can choose to either create an alliance of their own or join another alliance made by someone else. Joining one made by someone else often has it's advantages such as instant access to possibly high level bonuses, a higher level smithy and more. On the other hand, joining another alliance means the player won't have full control and may have to wait a long time before they are promoted in the alliance, granting them administrative powers.
Being part of an alliance is required for two of the daily tasks. These are a very quick and an easy 10 activity points players can earn. A player must:
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Write a message in the alliance chat
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Use the Alliance Smithy to create one piece of equipment
Alliance Level
There are 50 alliance levels to gain. Whenever a player earns glory points, they are added to the alliance and with enough, the alliance can advance to the next level. With each level, every member of the alliance can gain some rewards. A list of rewards available for each level is tabulated below along with the glory points required for each level. Every alliance starts at level 1.
Chat & Notice Boards
One of the many features of an alliance is the alliance chat and notice board. Members can talk to each other in the alliance panel, or in the alliance minichat panel in the lower left of the game window. This feature enables members to coordinate attacks on other players, alliances or other things.
The alliance notice board acts as an in game forum for alliance members. Players can post threads for discussion, or questions they wish to be answered. There is a maximum of 10 threads with 20 posts in each.
Alliance Funds
Any member of an alliance can contribute to their alliance's collective funds. Once the resources have been donated, they cannot be taken out. Alliance funds are used to purchase upgrades for the alliance smithy, or alliance wide bonuses such as an increase in attack travel speed for all members against members of alliances they're currently warring with.
Players can choose to donate however much they wish. All resources excluding Charcoal, Aqua Marine, Olive Oil, and Glass are available for donation, though you need to be at least level 25 or have purchased rubies to donate rubies.
It's recommended for new members who wish to get promoted higher to donate a lot of resources to the alliance funds as this will increase their reputation with members of the alliance.
Alliance Upgrades
There are a variety of upgrades available for alliances such as more slots, a better alliance smithy, increased support travel speed and more. These upgrades are purchased using alliance funds.
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Alliance Membership- An alliance can increase the number of member slots up to a maximum of 26 times (increasing by 2 every time you upgrade it), however that is not to be confused with the actual limit which is 65 members.
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Alliance Support Travel Speed- An alliance can increase the speed in which they can send support to one another.
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Alliance Market Barrow Travel Speed- An alliance can increase the speed in which they can send resources to one another.
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Alliance Donation Bonus- An alliance can increase the bonus precentage recieved when members donate resources to the alliance.
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Wartime Looting Bonus- An alliance can increase the bonus awarded when looting resources from players within alliances they are at war with.
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Alliance Attack Travel Speed- An alliance can increase the speed of there armies when attacking players within alliances they are at war with.
Alliance Smithy
At the alliance smithy, members of the alliance can forge a piece of equipment once per day. The higher the level of the smithy, the better the items that you receive will be. Gold coins must be used to forge an item from the smithy