Alliance Guide

Alliance Settings

The alliance settings allows the head of the alliance to customize some of the properties of the alliance (ie. Name, Tag, Motto, Recruitment Settings and Requirements, Language, Rank Titles, and Building Names).

Option: Change Name

Option: Change Tag

Option: Change Motto

Option: Change Open Recruitment Settings

Option: Change Recruitment Requirements

Option: Change Language

Option: Change Rank Titles

Option: Change Building Names

Customize Banner (press Customize)

Alliance Ranks and Responsibilities

Each alliance leader has their own reasons for creating their alliance, and has their own style of managing their alliance.  Know a little about how they manage their alliance to see whether it is a good fit before you join them.  Most of the time, people will join without knowing since they are just completing game-related quests and need an alliance.  They may even select an alliance purely based on their name or implied ethnicity or interests.

An alliance is a social network with a gaming component.  You meet people, interact, collaborate, and engage in role-playing.

I will try to provide different options that you can tailor and adopt to your own.

Alliance Communication

Effective Communication

An effective alliance communicates with its members using mail to request participation, scheduling of events, and advertising social forums for offline communication and media.

If you do not see good participation in your events, it's time to assess how you are communicating with your alliance members, and whether the timing of the events are convenient for your members.  An alliance often consists of members that are scattered around the world, and speak different languages, so its important to accommodate both timing and communication needs.

Do not use chat to schedule an event and expect that everyone or anyone will read it before it disappears.  The chat feature in the game is rather deficient in Stormshot.  Hence use mail or a social network -- ie. Discord, Facebook, etc.  Or even a combination of mediums to communicate with your members.

Cross Alliance Communication

If you need to communicate across two or more alliances, setup a room.  For example, communication between a main alliance and its farm alliance can be facilitated through the setup of a room.

Alliance Management (Day-in-the-Life)

Day-in-the-Life of managing an alliance may involve a combination of built-in game features and external social network forums (i.e. Discord, Facebook, etc.).  Use different technologies to streamline management and communication in the alliance.

Keep game related content separate from personal content.  Not everyone is interested in your personal life.  If you are looking for a personal stage, consider alternative forums like Facebook, Instagram, NextDoor, Snapchat, etc. Or setup a separate section intended for such content.

An example of managing activities and content in an alliance using Discord is shown below.

Accepting Membership Applications

View Alliance Members screen.  Under Alliance Rank 0, you will see pending membership applications.  Once a candidate is approved, he/she will move to Rank 1.

An R5 will have more options than an R4, and R4 will have more options than an R3 for adjusting a player's rank.

Set Donation Perference (Star)

Setting a preferred donation allows members of the alliance to raise donations to fund a particular research and receive 20% bonus for donating to the specific skill.  Press the star button on the right of a particular skill to set or change the preferred skill.

Oracle Reef Registration

The registration of members in the Oracle Reef event consists of two steps:

Step 1) Time selection

Step 2) Participants selection

Time Selection

Select a time that favors majority of your strong players.  The time selection options are based on UTC time.

For a conversion of UTC to local time, check out Timebie (https://www.timebie.com/std/utc.php).

Your strong players will be responsible for strategizing during the event, so accommodating them is critical to a successful and enjoyable event.

Participant Selection

Participants can be categorized as either Starters or Backups.

• Starters - There can be up to 35 players that can be selected to participate in the event.  These players can enter 10 minutes prior to the start of the event.

• Backups - There can be up to 15 players that can be selected as backups or standby players.  They can only enter at the start of the event and if there is available space (i.e. less than 35 players participating).

Matching Process

The alliance is matched based on levels of players registered.  Each player is given a score based on his/her stronghold level.  The individual scores are aggregated to produce a total score which is compared with other alliances in other kingdoms and matched accordingly.

Gaming the Matching Process

The key to gaming the matching process is to have the matching algorithm use your lowest ranking members to generate a score low enough to be paired against weaker opponents in other kingdoms.  Once paired, then switching the low ranking members with higher ranking members.

• As soon as you register the time for the event, clear the participant list immediately.

• Select the lowest 15 ranking/power players in as backups (blue) so the participant list can be saved.

• Send mail to alliance requesting members to confirm their attendance.

• For each person that can attend, set them as starter (green).  Take out a backup (blue) for each starter (green) you register.

This section is still under development to clarify this process.

War of Waters Registration

The process for registering for War of Waters is similar to Oracle Reef.  See above for time and participant selection.