I would envisage that an alliance would have to pay some sort of fee to open an account, I would think a monthly or weekly fee would be appropriate but will leave the amount to others with more knowledge in the Illy economy to debate as to what is fair. 

The obvious danger in such a scheme is people joining alliances to gain access and empty the alliances coffers. I would think a fairly simple permissions scale to be administered the alliance leadership would be simple enough to implement though as security measure.

Hope this idea finds support and could be quickly implemented

Zarhunt wrote: The obvious danger in such a scheme is people joining alliances to gain access and empty the alliances coffers. I would think a fairly simple permissions scale to be administered the alliance leadership would be simple enough to implement though as security measure.

this is the magical part. to be practical, someone would need to work out just what these permissions would do, how they would be set, etc. without this, an alliance bank as you describe would be an invitation to a level of deceit not yet seen in illy. the prestige pool is probably the place to start, but would every storable resource have to have a daily quota attached? that seems very complex.

If I play from different IP adresess?

Sometime i am traveling, and I playing from other cities, even countries.

An IP address will not identify a person. 

The same person can use many IP addresses, even without moving. Some ISPs have TTL down to an hour.

An IP address can be used by many different people, especially in rural areas where you have community ISPs or somebody opens their connection to the neighbourhood. Some ISPs have a central NAT and connect their customers on a private sub-network.

Some people do not even have their own PC, and have to share with their family, a community center or a library. Maybe even an OLPC grid network. Illy is not restricted to the affluent parts of the world. It is, after all, free to play.

I do think an alliance bank would be great way to help with many distribution problems though.

Any mechanism that relies on one player is flawed, e.g. one player acting as trade broker for the alliance.

Perhaps the simplest way, is to have an Alliance Trade Hub at the Alliance Capital. Only alliance members may trade there, but otherwise it works the same way as existing Trade Hubs, appearing in the same UIs. This allows discounted or nominal pricing, and exclusive access.

Edit: thought of a flaw: When you send resources to the square, are you sending to the town or the alliance trade hub?

Ip address isn't the way to go as it mean both me,the gf and my brother would have to somehow share two account's if it was limited to two account's per ip address which would make all three of us leave illy ......

Even prestige buying wouldn't be a way as i buy prestige for my gf so should we be punished for that ? and i know others who have brought it for either partner's or their children who play illy. and because wasn't in same alliance couldn't of given them prestige any other way