The Demise of Training Alliances

Kavenmetack wrote: Yes in the past the bigger alliances couldnt take the time to teach newbies and help them with res. So they made training alliance but even back than they did just go to the mother alliance.

this has not been the case during my three-year tenure in the game. no alliance that can't train its new recruits would be able to set up a training alliance worthy of note. the training alliances that existed when i joined the game were all nominally independent, with T? taking great pains on its page to explain its relationship with H? (one of sponsorship, not patronage). i can't exhaustively say why these junior branches were begun, but i'll venture that most were motivated by a combination of wanting to make space in the senior branch and wanting to continue recruiting even during wartime. the innovations of convalescing military players and protecting alliance assets in "training alliances" have come along more recently.

Kavenmetack wrote: My question is that have you seen training alliance abusing this special protection? because i have not.

see above. yes, these things are actually happening.

Kavenmetack wrote: Second question. What do you mean H? cant protect T?? what threat could H? dont be able to handle vCrow? Shade? mCrow? any alliance that is bigger than H? right now? because all of these alliance would never attack T? or any training alliance.

i'm aware of conversations among vCrow and its allies in the last war challenging the neutrality of both T? and NS. indeed, some of those conversations may have materialised as warnings to these alliances, so your confidence in the status quo seems misplaced.

Anyways, back to the actual thread, now that the name callers have chilled:

@Kavenmetack:

Merlinus wrote: I began this game on the same day that, after some really wise counsel, I applied to, and was accepted by Toothless?.  In my first week as a member, I was nearly (and only due to the generosity of the then-Chancellor was I not) kicked out of that Alliance because I posted a non-neutral position in the Forums. One. Not two. I was on probation for a long time because of that unintentional error, but I learned that when my TRAINING Alliance said neutral, no matter what--they fully meant it. It was my dream then that, upon graduation, I would be chosen to remain within T? as a member of faculty because that is what I greatly wished to do. I had reached both the town and population limits for general membership in that Alliance, and was told by a new Chancellor that I was not being asked to remain; that I must graduate from T?.