IMO the best leaders are not necessarily the ones who WANT to be leader to wield power 
they are the ones who genuinely just want the alliance to do well.
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Player level of equals is a major part of how a functioning alliance sincerely works. When you have a bottleneck of mixed players in higher tiers the problems will always occur. My sincere take is to start off in a fun alliance. Work your way to a trainer alliance then free your mind and everything will work itself out. The game is brilliant and working towards a larger macro view leads to player harmony and synergy. Happy gaming to all!!!
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Of all drama I would have anticipated from this thread, this one takes the biscuit, the cake and maybe half a dozen donuts.
As for myself, there was a kerfuffle at my first alliance over war flag usage. P1 didnât use all their flags, P2 wasnât happy about it. Cue argument. Leader dealt with it calmly. P2 left in the end. The more normal anticipate drama. 
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lol thanks⌠at least the biscuit, cake and donuts will help soothe all the negative emotions after the drama lol
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Witnessed a mass walkout when I, as leader asked people to hit titans or get demoted.
I then moved on too.
Meh.
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Come on where are the top 100 alliance at? The real drama comes from them!
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Yeah weâre definitely not watching a circus now. 2000 mules.
Good call.
Iâve been enjoying this thread. Iâll share a short story. An old alliance leader told me that one day an ex-alliance mate (he had stayed at the alliance I left) went on a massive rant in alliance chat against a certain religious group.
Out of nowhere, he started spewing hate against this group of people. I saw the screenshots. It was highly offensive, and caused friction with alliance membersâŚ
Fortunately the leader acted quickly. He basically wrote the language/attitude was unacceptable and then kicked the offender.
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Thatâs exactly the type of ludicrous conspiracies that went on in that alliance. Iâll try to dig up the name of it. You look like a good fit for it.
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Scary that.
An alliance leader broke finally after suffering a constant stream of âgood summonsâ shared by a showy player, in the alliance chat. He enjoyed an immense streak of good luck while whaling, and couldnât restrain himself. It got to the point of offensive.
Leader transferred leadership, and then exited without notice. Left a message in the Line group chat. To which that whale wasnât part of.
It wasnât the whaleâs fault actually. His gleeful sharing was just the straw that broke the Leader, who was probably on the verge of giving up this game.
The new Leader wasnât enthused at being made Leader. Hung on till that alliance finally disintegrated awhile back.
I left soon after the ex Leader exited. My two buddies decamped after me. One buddy was sufficiently upset with that Whale to post a very nasty scathing exit message, pinpointing that whale as the reason for the exodus after the ex Leader exited.
The Whale was so embarrassed that he exited ASAP but damage was done.
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Sounds like the whale wasnât deliberately trying to upset people. Was anything ever said to them privately?
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It can be a difficult situation when an alliance leader steps down. Sometimes it is not possible to find a suitable replacement and the alliance is shut down. 
Oh, the written grenade before exiting. I think the last time I saw one was probably a few years ago. Someone got upset with the alliance leader - who stepped up to lead - and unkindly put them down in their exit message.
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Yes. Nicely asked to temper his good news. Since not everyone was having a fantastic month with summons.
He was oblivious to the nicely worded requests, which were not from the Leader or co-leaders, but from others who was also getting fed up with this whale.
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Buddy did it for me actually. Cos I tried to get the whale to just zip a bit after the ex leader exited. Alliance was in shock.
Whale response wasnât tactful. I didnât explode back cos I was leaving anyway, and I can tell that this whale was so full of himself that his cup over-runneth with his wisdom and his luck.
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Itâs a shame the big spender inadvertently caused the leader to step downâŚ
Hopefully you can see a funny side to the unpleasant situation now?
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Oh definitely. I still feel bad for that ex leader though. And for the alliance that eventually disintegrated.
I havenât bumped into that Whale ever since then.
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the tricky part about communication - especially online - is that it can be harder for a message to land.
I was doubting about whether to share my following experience, but Iâll keep it high-level. It was a while ago, anyway.
I ended up leading my former small alliance. One player (a very good one), was the only one using harpoons. I still had to build up Hunterâs Lodge. anyway, we never actually discussed/agreed on using harpoons - he asked me a couple of times over a few months, how my harpoons were going. I said, I couldnât craft them yet as I needed to up my storages, and stronghold.
What I neglected to mention was: I wasnât prioritizing them, I was prioritizing Training Camps and Houses.
anyway. Fast forward a few months (!), where we never really talked about/agreed to use Harpoons. I casually mentioned I had finished my Advanced House 10âŚ
⌠player leaves with a vague message.
I mention this briefly on the forumsâŚ
⌠he comes back, unleashes a scathing message at me for doing so, brings up a few other grievances that he never mentioned before, and leaves again. I was offline the whole time, but our 2 mates were on and they were as shocked as I was. One even lamented, âhe didnât even want to talkâŚâ
Our conclusion and main regret was, if only we had actually talked about Harpoons, we could have agreed on a âfair useâ policy, and maybe the other grievances would not have welled upâŚ
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Yeah communication can be a bugbear at times.
Everyoneâs priorities are different. No right no wrong there.
I donât use harpoons much, even when I could manufacture them, but I do contribute my share if I am in an ally that uses them. Usually there are 3 groups of 10: A B n C.
I have been in alliances with no clear policy on harpoons. I play it by ear then, it can be difficult though to guess.
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yeah, when I joined my current alliance I made it a point to ask about things like Titans, harpoons. It helps a lot just to discuss openly and give everyone a chance to weigh in!
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People getting upset on another player sharing their good fortune? WOW
Sour much?
Iâm those âYay our alliance is growing strongerâ when peeps shares their good pull and secretly hope said good fortune spills over to me!
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