+1 lol

too bad we know the devs dont like this and have made their point about it quite a few times.
we all want it. the devs dont want it... too bad...

the problem is the players will always organise outside the corps in a allince. if there are features ingame or not. but it would make it for the players much more comfortable and with the look at pos and big land masses way more easy.
personaly i think its a must... but as mentioned, others dont see it that way. too bad these others make the game.

anyways
+1

This idea has never been discussed before.
I am amazed at the genius of HUST.

+1

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alliance mechanics are for those that want to hide under the skirts of others.  The "Now they won't mess with my 2 man corp because i am part of X alliance" would be a terrible path to take.  the game is too small for making a super group to dominate the board.

Make friends, run with them, leave them, go another direction or whatever you want to do.  you don't need hand holding mechanics to do that.

If alliance mechanics are the path of least resistance then strong corps will just fill their ranks with cannon fodder for all the <5 man corps and the blob will be the norm.  The game is finally shaping up into some nice pockets of strength and diversity.

Get 500 active members then take another look at it.

checking....nope, just a corp, called WAR that has made friends with another corp, that of which neither require any kind of formal friendship mechanics.

+100500

What some players and certainly the dev team dont understand, is that you should NOT enforce one type of player grouping or another. You fear that a overwhelming force would appear and kill the server? Your completely wrong. Human civilization history show many examples of what im saying.

Once theres no more opposition and the "blob" is too big, it splits itself naturally. Theres always at least one ambitious minded near the top that wants to take a big crunch of the cake. Theres always dissentions, qui pro quo, misunderstandings etc, that WILL split the blob. Just let some time. What you devs did is try so much to avoid by any mean too big coalitions of players, that in fact you INCREASED the will to stay together and crush the whole thing.

Stop being hypocritical guys.  Everyone agree, we all liked the big battles, in everyone mind its the best moments in game they experienced (and other fun things too im synthetizing). Do i have to necro the threads for you to see all the "wow great guys, so much fun, we won/lose but hey, we got a very nice time". So most of us like this, but you cant stand theres only two big oppositions with so low population?? We dont want it to be horde vs alliance, we want more complicated politics and we surely can have it. But FOR NOW, with not many peoples, just try to enjoy some kind of endgame we all like, no? Once the pop improve, new STRONG entities will emerge.  When there was the "so called" griefing on some beta island from the SovNov, it was a desperate call to gather everyone else and come and *** us. But you didnt. You prefered some ridiculous way to destroy the Sovnov.  Gratz.  Now enjoy your 3v3 lightbot pew pew with the lolpirates.

And may i add, Devs your frankly in the wrong direction with your way of handling "the blob case". Let it die from its own fatness. There will always be at least 2 sides, its common sense.
Maybe im just telling a big bunch of BS, its just my own feeling about all this.

To set things straight, I don't think we ever stated that we don't want alliance features. Back in June Gremrod asked me to tell him a topic they could discuss in the podcast, and I said we would be interested what our players would expect from an alliance/conglomerate feature.

The result was that the majority of our players thought that an alliance feature would be premature or even unnecessary at that point.

Link: http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … iscussion/

Has the general consensus changed? Would alliances make a better game right now?

This question rest more to you Dev Zoom, Do you as a Developer want to see more alliances holding Beta Islands or Just enough corps holding the number of active outposts per island?  I.E. Alliance of 2 corps olding a Beta-2 island and an alliance of 3 olding a Beta-1 island.

as othe rplayers have pointed out with intrusion 2.0:
yes it would make it a better game. the "used" beta outposts are a living place for mostly not only one corp. so it would be very usefull to have the auras not only for the holding but also for the corps that also "defend" that outpost. so yes alliance features would make it a better game. just to point out a single reason.

i could go on quite a while.. but i think thats unnesesary.

Also: someone promised to implement corporation features like projects or sorta WHERE ARE THEY?? >:3