The community has once again gotten together, with the goal of reworking the Challenge Alliance Community. This new version, dubbed CAC 2.0, had the goal of being much more inclusive, eliminating the elitism and harsh entrance criteria.
This process is still going on but many of the new concepts have been preliminary approved. We have created a new "Think Tank" that combines volunteers who are coming up with new ideas and concepts for the new community.
After the community started coming together, the ability to work out our differences started to improve. There was an immediate improvement in the Alliance Challenge Matches thanks to the information sharing and open nature of the initial alliance community.
Many new alliances started forming and others that had not been involved were brought on board. While there were still problems, based on personalities and some troubles with maps/challenge mechanics, it was relatively successful. Elite Challenge Matches were introduced by the Game Developers. These new challenges restrict in-game currency (Gold) and require all participants to be level 25 or greater. It was seen as a big improvement in the challenge community.
Even with these improvements, there were some members who felt that the CAC had too much elitism. Several alliances ended up inactive or outright leaving the community. This was seen by those remaining as a stain on the community.
Before CAC, the CON alliance community often struggled to complete challenges due to the fractured nature of inter-alliance communications. Because of the lack of programmed options in alliance challenges, there are many components of the challenge that must be agreed upon and followed within an “honor system” (where each alliance relies on the other alliance to follow the rules with little to no ability to enforce them).
In order to be successful, there are many steps in the process that require alliances to work together in order to properly and fairly setup, play and complete a challenge. This task often proved very hard and many times failed to facilitate a proper challenge.
In light of this problem, several alliance leaders banded together to create a semi-private discord server, separate from alliance and CON developer-run servers. The CAC discord community server was formed with the intent of bringing the alliance community together to alleviate these communication issues.