Diplomacy and alliances

An alliance gathers several players, shares some information and opens common objectives. The world directory presents every alliance, its description and its recruitment policy: open, application-based or closed.

An open alliance can be joined directly; an application must be accepted or declined by an authorized member. A pinned announcement and deliberately approximate activity help coordination without exposing precise presence.

An alliance recruiting by application may combine a minimum power, maximum infamy, and minimum seniority in the world. Applicants must meet every active criterion when applying. Invitations bypass them, and an existing application remains valid if the criteria change later.

A member’s unread alliance activity begins when they join. Earlier history remains available to read, but it does not retroactively fill their notification badge.

The Journal groups events by date, filters people, diplomacy, economy, research, and operations, and paginates the history. Every entry keeps its exact time and a relative indication for quick scanning.

The Operations Center separates military coordination from day-to-day alliance management. Its overview counts threatened allied bastions, deployed garrisons, reinforcements in transit and active support calls. It gathers alliance emergencies, garrisons and known movements with direct access to every position on the map, without command forms. Ash Fronts and shared Intelligence have their own sections. The owner of a spy report may share it when their role has the corresponding permission. All current members can then read its content, author and date; the owner or a member manager may remove it. Intelligence older than seven days remains available but is visually subdued.

Diplomatic relations indicate whether a faction is neutral, allied, hostile or bound by a pact.

A protected player’s structures show a dome on the map with an "Under protection" tooltip. Hostile actions are blocked server-side until expiry or break.

Vacation mode is managed from a dedicated Account tab. Activation requires no recent hostile action, incoming threat, trade convoy or allied reinforcement, active movement or territorial queue.

The player’s own troops may remain in their bastions, towers and outposts, but not at a foreign position; one button recalls them all and a report confirms their return. The account becomes read-only, with no production or progression.

After the minimum duration, the player requests a visible remobilization before exact remaining queue times resume and cooldown begins. Positions stay visible and protected but project no influence. Stationed allied contingents keep their owner and remain recallable.

Premium status and its expiration are visible from the Account page. While the store is disabled, the team manually grants free 30-day access. When enabled, one-off purchases credit account-wide Obols, with no subscription or automatic renewal.

In Reports, active access unlocks favorites, up to five personal tags per report, and up to ten saved filters. On the map, it allows up to ten saved views per world with their framing, zoom, filter and layers, without additional information. In Missions, it unlocks up to ten unit compositions and ten convoy presets that fill compatible values without storing a target or launching an action; normal availability and validation still apply.

It also allows a purely visual heraldic crest, independently displayed on the public profile, with the bastion or in rankings, plus optional public Premium status.

The manual combat simulator remains free for everyone in Missions; Premium additionally allows up to ten saved scenarios, duplication, importing the player’s own reports or presets, and comparing two results. An import never reconstructs data absent from an older report, so terrain and research levels must still be checked. Basic filters remain free and these tools add neither exclusive information nor extra retention.

Paid Premium is unlocked through stackable offers of 7 days for 140 Obols, 14 days for 275 Obols, or 21 days for 400 Obols, up to a 365-day future horizon. Planned packs are 600 Obols for €4.99, 1,260 for €9.99, and 3,300 for €24.99, with a €50 limit over 30 days. Obols never expire and cannot be transferred or converted into cash or game resources; credits, spends, and administrative operations are logged. Revocation or expiration disables rights without deleting preferences, and this foundation grants no power or progression advantage.

The purchase flow records the immediate-supply request before redirecting, then collects acceptance of the Terms of Sale in Stripe Checkout. The durable email confirmation contains the summary, applicable terms and withdrawal form; order history offers the online request for 14 days.

On profiles and in alliance diplomacy, each term and pact-breaking confirmation can be selected by clicking its card. A gold border and check mark indicate selection, as with Sovereign choices. These choices remain accessible with a keyboard and by touch. Pact-breaking confirmation shows an empty box with “Check to confirm”, then “Confirmation checked” once selected.

On profiles, an active war and a hostile threat appear in red. Actions follow the effective relationship: an existing war cannot be declared again from the panel, an existing pact offers to edit its terms, and returning to neutrality specifies whether it ends a pact, a war or a pending declaration. When alliances determine the relationship, personal controls are replaced with an explanation and a management link for authorized members.

Pacts frame hostile actions and may require a delay or confirmation before breaking. Right of passage is read on routes: crossing foreign influence without the clause raises a diplomatic warning, while an authorized route identifies the partner opening their territory.

For a direct convoy or garrison movement, you choose between the fast route and “Avoid forbidden territories”: the server compares travel time and extra cost, computes the actual detour, and rejects that mode when no fully authorized route exists.

Military support authorizes reinforcements inside a partner’s bastions and at their towers and outposts. Both clauses are automatic within the same alliance and are checked again by the server at departure and, for reinforcement, on arrival.

Alliance objectives and voluntary member contributions feed a shared treasury that funds alliance researches. Resources are taken from the active bastion after its production is updated. Each resource’s Max button fills the deposit with the lower value between the available stock and the remaining daily allowance. By default, each player may deposit at most 12,000 Food, 12,000 Dark Wood, 10,000 Iron and 1,500 Essence per UTC day in one world. This allowance is shared by all their bastions, does not carry over and excludes alliance objective and operation rewards.

The treasury shows the remaining time before the next daily reset, which is always scheduled for 00:00 UTC.

Every deposit and expense is kept in an immutable ledger paginated in groups of 10 entries, while contribution summaries remain informational and create no individual rank.

The nine researches form three branches with five levels per research. Prosperity improves production, storage and building construction. Logistics accelerates convoys, increases Cart capacity and shortens reinforcement or recall journeys. Frontiers extends shared vision, accelerates towers and outposts, then strengthens garrisons sent to another member.

The second tier of a branch requires level 2 in the first, then the third requires level 3 in the second. Costs rise sharply with each level and advanced tiers cost more. Existing levels in Shared stewardship, Convoy charters and Watch beacons are preserved.

An alliance runs only one research project at a time. Resources are spent when it starts and the effect activates only when it completes. By default, levels 1 through 5 take 15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, 12 hours and 24 hours before the tier multiplier of 1, 1.25 or 1.60 and the world research speed are applied. A started project cannot be cancelled.

The Trade page lets a player propose an “I provide X for Y” contract to an authorized diplomatic partner. A contract may expire or be cancelled before acceptance. The form only asks for resources: both sides exclusively use Carts and automatically mobilize the minimum number required for the load.

One Cart carries 120 resources with the active definition. The sender must already own their Carts; the recipient’s Carts are checked only when they accept. The live summary displays each convoy’s load, maximum transportable amount, remaining capacity, and required Carts; a game synchronization does not clear a form being edited.

On acceptance, the server checks both bastions’ stocks, Carts, permissions, and routes together: both linked convoys depart, or neither does. Each convoy carries exactly the accepted basket, without a diplomatic delivery modifier or delivery bonus.

Between members of the same alliance, Convoy charters only reduces travel time according to its level and never changes either basket. Carts remain their player’s property and become available again after delivery. Commercial reports remind players of both baskets and open the corresponding contract in history. History links to a convoy while it is travelling and hides that shortcut once it is complete; it remains readable and can recreate an old offer.

Alliance messages remain collective. Player-to-player messaging uses separate private conversations isolated within the current world. The compact list opens each conversation without displaying or revealing the latest message content.

The alliance Messages, Recruitment and Journal tabs continue to flag new items before the alliance page marks them as seen.

A thread initially loads its fifty most recent messages and can retrieve earlier history. Each player may mark it unread, pin it, archive it, or mute it; a new incoming message restores an archived conversation, while muting only removes floating alerts.

The composer keeps one draft per conversation and inserts Unicode emojis through a picker with search, categories, recents, and skin-tone variants. The same emojis can be added or removed as reactions below a message.

On mobile, the inbox, new message, and thread each have their own screen. The reply stays above the virtual keyboard and the game bars hide while it is open. Emojis are entered using the phone keyboard, without an extra button in the reply. Reactions remain available below messages. Reading history preserves its position, and text typed while sending stays in the draft.

Blocking a player prevents new exchanges in both directions without erasing shared history. A received message can be reported with a reason and details; moderators receive only the reported message and limited context. The first version provides no files, GIFs, stickers, custom emojis, editing, or global deletion.

Messaging exposes no exact presence, typing state, or detailed read receipt. Epilogue and archived worlds, as well as vacation mode, remain readable without allowing new messages.

Within these dialogs, profiles, Sovereign pages and alliance sections remain accessible without leaving the scene. The dialog heading follows the page being viewed. Sovereign rules open in another tab.

In the immersive interface, Reports opens a dialog above the map or bastion. The list is paginated and filterable; reading a report updates the counter according to your notification preferences. Returning to the list preserves filters. Alliance, Messages, Missions, Trade and Rankings also open in dialogs, with a single section heading. Diplomacy remains available within Alliance, without a duplicate shortcut in More. Bastion and Map switch views; Research, Units and Tavern shortcuts are reserved for the Bastion view. Buildings remains accessible at the bottom left, without a duplicate in More.

More menu entries, including Tavern and Heroes, include an illustration. At the bottom left of the bastion, Buildings and Overview use the same illustrated buttons as the HUD navigation. In mobile landscape, these controls and View align with the bottom edge of the main menu. The Rewards chest is more compact on mobile. The active bastion panel groups the translated world name, coordinates, bastion switching, Empire, people information and the return to the Lobby.

The Missions page keeps a paginated list of incoming threats targeting your bastions and territories, even after dismissing the floating alert or disabling notifications. Intelligence remains limited by the Watchtower: an estimated window by default, with exact arrival and origin revealed at the configured levels. Undetected spies remain hidden. Recalled movements and those that have arrived no longer appear in this list.

Administration announcements appear in the centre of the screen on your next game page, in French or English according to your language. They can provide information or signal an alert. Closing the message or choosing “I have read this” saves acknowledgement to your account across all worlds: it does not return after reloading. Pending announcements appear one at a time. A new announcement is a new message to read.

Every notification category is enabled by default for a new account. In account settings, a category can be disabled entirely or replaced with a selection of specific signals.

For an active participation in an open world outside the internal sandbox, one reminder email is sent after 3 days without game activity and one more after 7 days. New activity starts a new cycle. Restricted accounts, vacation mode, and archived worlds receive no reminders.

Before delivery, the account, original world and inactivity cycle are checked again. Renewed activity, switching worlds or losing eligibility discards the pending reminder. A reminder aged 24 hours or more is no longer sent; an older message whose context cannot be verified is also skipped.

In the immersive interface, the Rewards button midway along the bastion’s right edge opens a dedicated dialog for rewards to claim. Ongoing objectives remain in Overview. In the classic layout, a badge on the Bastion entry indicates available rewards and the Completed / claimed tab lists them before those already claimed. After claiming, the dedicated dialog reopens in immersive view and the tab stays selected in the classic layout. Unread reports appear on the Reports entry.