Aliansi bukan Segalanya

This post comes from my experience as an alliance member, when I read a lot of “I need resources, please give me some” messages.

I have nothing against a trade. If you have too much iron for instance you might want to get some crop for it. You can announce in the alliance forums and trade with a fellow ally if you don’t want to sell the resources on the public market.

But coming to ask for resources to be donated would surely disqualify you in the others’ eyes. I usually reply in the alliance forum with something like: “Do you need resources? Raid others, grow them etc.” every time I see such messages.

The nice thing is that some reply to us all saying: “But look, you’re so developed, I need some resources to develop more too”. The thing is that we all started from 2 population with few resources. We all need resources for many soldiers, maybe an upgrade and so on.

Coming to beg into the alliance forums would surely make all the others think you’re worthless. In some bigger alliance you might get kicked from it since no one needs a whiner. When it comes to war we need to rely on ourselves and the allies. But how can we go to war when we have to donate resources to people who are too lazy to work more?

Conclusion: develop few soldiers and start raiding for resources. Or just slowly upgrade the resource fields till you get them to a good level, thus getting a steady influx of resources each hour.

An alliance is not a charity. Don’t be a beggar. Be a winner.