People had ought to start paying attention to The League of Legions and Clocks these are very skilled and experienced players and they have been together and enjoyed success together in other servers. I think they'll help make things very interesting in the week to come.
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Clocks. We were not a premade alliance. There are 4 of us who played in the same alliance in Eubea - we independently came here and just happened to join together in an alliance. The current team is a combination of noobs and experienced players with emphasis on being active. We actually have a lot of noobs; most of us have played in 3 or less worlds but you wouldn't know it from how quickly all of our team has caught on to the subtler nuances of the game.
The advantage of having so few members is that we're able to teach noobs a lot of more advanced techniques rather than having to discuss the importance of LS escorts repeatedly. Or reading an all caps post on the forum that they're being attacked. Been there, done that. Instead, we're able to discuss the importance of Island Quests, Heroes, attack/defense construction, etc. And we're all learning stuff from each other; it's not just the noobs that are learning.
We've expanded a bit recently so we have a few new members who are getting used to our way of operating - I expect we'll have the kinks worked out in the next week or two. We reject most applicants. I do not envision our alliance moving up much more in the stats; we aren't willing to sacrifice the brotherhood we're able to foster with so few members in exchange for maxing out at 50 in order to generate a higher alliance ranking. So we'll probably remain a second/third tier alliance for the duration.
I'm very proud to be a part of this alliance and wouldn't leave it for a spot in a higher ranking alliance. And I hope/think that everyone else on our team feels the same.
Footnote: Kudos to our diplomat. He's been able to negotiate pacts that have kept us from getting steamrolled by larger alliances.