Do Any Alliances Tolerate No Titan Hits for 24 hours When Online?

[Gryphonknight]

Fun

@Garanwyn

I hate chasing people to get stuff done at work, and it’s not behavior I tolerate for long. I certainly don’t want to have to do it in a game.

^^^ This

On the one hand, Leaders, and co-leaders, are investing time in helping the alliance. They do not need more work on top on that work load. Empires is not a job. Empires is supposed to be fun.

When I need a break for Real Life, I always tell my leader “I will be busy, if you need to, boot me, I can rejoin”.

Family you choose

But on the other hand. Alliances become families.

We noticed people growing bored with Empires but not our alliance.

Days in alliance has no impact in game play, but a lot of our teammates consider it more important that highest titan hits.

Leaders, and co-leaders, hate booting a player because they hate recruiting - search still sucks - and the new teammate will occasionally be worse than the booted teammate.

Gryphonkit, my wife, and most of my teammates joined Twilights Bastion because it was full of real adults who treat women who game, and have Real Life outside of game, respectfully and as normal human beings. So I do not blame them for wanting to stay in an alliance that is mature, respectful, helpful, understanding and has an alliance chat that is not a cesspit.

Titans are king

But on the gripping hand.

Titans are king ( see notes ). How you feel about Titan loot directly impacts what type of alliance you will enjoy.

While a teammate may enjoy being a member of a specific alliance, the current leader has to decide the alliance’s titan goals, and all members must abide by that decision or find a different alliance.

Silver lining

Something to consider, when you have 28- 30 members in your alliance, you are very low priority on the alliance search function.

While hard, booting members can allow new members to find you and join your alliance.

My alliance

@Joyful818

but it is making a few members uncomfortable because we have been together so long.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Yes.

My alliance has let founding teammates have a lot more slack than new teammates, but eventually we had to clear house. The remaining founding members still get a lot of slack. But not infinite slack.

At least two teammates have been booted multiple times for not communicating their reasons for not hitting the titan. We allow them back, but once they start to slip again, the get booted again. This has actually turned out to be a good thing, because it shows new teammates that we mean it when we say “you can always come back”.

War energy

@Sarah2

Similarly, losing wars because of individuals not using flags takes its toll.

Due to matchmaking being sub-optimal, I have dropped out of war ( see notes ). Since I am a co-leader this has actually encouraged most of our teammates who like war to fight war and those who hate war to opt out. This has won us several wars were we has 10 war energy left and the opposite alliance had 40 war energy left.

War loot is not that great. Better that everyone hit the titan, then everyone try to get the war chest.

Notes

Click for notes

Titan loot

@Gryphonknight

Titan Loot

Having your alliance go from 1 ascension roll per titan loot to 2 ascension rolls is a huge milestone. Your alliance going from 2 rolls to 3 rolls is a 50% increase in chance to get 3*/ 4* ascension items. But going from 3 rolls to 4 rolls is only a edit: 33% increase

4*+19 heroes will let more players get 3 ascension item rolls on titan loot. Since 3*+20 heroes are only about a powerful as 4* 3.60 heroes, getting more 3* ascension items by getting more ascension item rolls, will significantly increase the power of your alliance and your enjoyment of the game.

Titan Loot

@Gryphonknight

Titans are the object of the game

Empires is all about the maximum 380 Titan kills per year ( for me 780 rolls, actually less since ours can escape, for a player at loot tier 9+ at least 1,140 rolls, maybe less with introduction of rare titans and higher star titans ).

War is only 104 rolls per year.

Challenge events only 24- 60x 3* per year.

I do not recall the frequency of rare quests but I would be surprised if five times per month.

Seasonal events 5x 3* per year.

So killing titans is king.

War

@Gryphonknight

War Matchmaking

When my heroes reached 4*+5, I had to drop out of wars because the matchmaking algorithm is suboptimal - especially when it comes to nodes X*+1 to X*+15 - and I was costing my alliance 2 war chest points per week ( 1 point for a loss is brutal ). Yes I was always in the Top 5 for my alliance, but my roster is very oddly shaped so it throws off matchmaking. So far we are winning 2 more wars per month since I dropped out. Once I can get a solid set of 5x 5* heroes ( fingers crossed for Hero Academy ), I can rejoin very quickly.

But by dropping out, my teammates have been opening war chests faster and several have leveled critical heroes with the loot. Due to diminishing returns, it is better for me to skip the War Chests now, to help my whole alliance improve and take down bigger titans.

FIN