There is still a lot of work to go into the operation of this alliance, when somebody hires us it will not really come as a shock as the 2 parties involved will already be at war or trading blows.
Would anybody have been surprised if we had been picked up by TLR or TRO?
We also have some ground rules, we will not destroy/raze/capture cities or take any gold or res from them. If we undertake a successful attack on a city we will return what was taken plus a little bit, we have already been paid so we dont need anymore.
This doesn't mean that siege tactics wont be utilised just that we will not destroy cities, we are being paid for specific goals, if the client wants to wipe an alliance off the map that is up to them, we wont be participating in that aspect at all and our engagement will end before that. We are well aware of how long it takes to build cities and how much they cost which is the main reason for not attacking cities with the aim of destroying them.
A lot of these details will be ironed out as we move forward, some may change and we will adapt to the changes in Illy itself, the client will still have to post that they have engaged us for offensive purposes.
Invictusa, people hire us to assist them in one way or another it also means that we may also hire people as well for one off engagements.
People may accept that we are doing a job, and they may not. Each engagement will be different and it is impossible to predict what may or may not happen. This service is currently lacking in illy and there may be a place for it with all the new changes that have happened, time will tell though.
The one thing that wont change is that if the alliance that has commissioned us calls us off due to peer pressure or the threat of being destroyed by the res of the community, we keep the money paid to us, it is not our fault that they made a bad judgement call and declared war on a bigger alliance and are getting there backsides handed to them.
It will be interesting to see how this all pans out in the end.