I’ve been playing over three months. And 92 days in my first alliance (Paisley Power)
A few days in, the game had been encouraging me to find an alliance after I hit the level where I could, and soon after that I started looking for an alliance that would take me, knowing that the “top” alliances would have no use for such a new player, and not sure who would.
I stumbled onto the leader in global chat, and they were happy to take me. (Turns out they were taking anybody; I didn’t know that at the time 'tho) There was a group of about 10 who had left another alliance whose leader was mostly AWOL, and they were tired of watching 4* and 5* titans get away. And hard to kick members for not showing up and hitting he titan when the leader doesn’t! (Also turned out that starting a new alliance means accepting a bunch of people, knowing that some of them will work out, and some won’t. That first month our leader did a LOT of recruiting to keep us full!)
I went through the very rapid growth from 1* titans to 4* titans, at which point we slowed down and are now killing 8* titans, including our first rare titan yesterday. It worked really well–I grew with our alliance nicely, and somehow ended up being a co-leader too; still dunno how that happened!
But I’ve found a great chatty, friendly bunch of people, with several who like teaching newer players/members how to play more effectively (I’ve gone from mostly learning to more teaching). And just having fun, horsing around a bit in chat too.
We’re not top-100, but I’m not ready for that either. I kinda expect we will get closer to that, given more time. Growing with the alliance has been a great experience, and I’m looking forward to more of that too. It is nice to be more stable now. We’ve got a bunch of 80~90 day members, a couple that just joined, and some in the middle.
And as somebody said earlier, I think I’ll probably be taken out feet first, assuming the game lasts that long!