Here's my 2 cents;
If I find someone that I am attacking, and they seem to know what they are doing, I'll offer a place in the alliance. If they accept, then we work together to grow stronger. If they don't, then we battle it out, or stay as mutual neighbors. Just because this is a war game doesn't meant we can't have neutral enemies.
On the reverse; If I'm getting beat by someone that is obviously better then myself, and I'm offered the chance to join them, I'll consider it. I'll look at where they are as an individual, and where they are as an alliance. I'll also look at myself, and my alliance. If I find the are truly better, then yes, I'll join them. If not, then I'll duke it out till there is nothing left in either of us.
But, I try to look at the big picture. If I can, I try and take a few members from my alliance and have them follow me. But, the one thing I hate, is turning on friends. In the 9 months I've been playing, I've only ever hit 1 former alliance member. And the soul reason for that was, because he went inactive, and I knew it. Otherwise, I find it strongly distasteful to attack my former alli's, my friends.
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