United Alliance as Illyriad's United Nation

Coalition, people working together for a preferred outcome to an objective.  Doesn't mean they need to butt in on the little tiffs that coalition members get into outside of that objective.

Confederation though, generally should mean that both sides will militarily back each other and stuff. 

Though I believe a few alliances are just using it as a 'trade pact' and/or 'bloatware' to make it look like they have more backing then they really do have.

Suddenly "coalition" sounds more like the confederation concept already built into the game.

If the UA forms, someone needs to form a counter coalition.

And then a 3rd coalition.  And a 4th.

Larry the incentive/disincentive is in the moral stance. If the UA becomes powerful and immoral, the "powers that actually matter" would do themselves a huge PR favor by abstaining. Likewise, if the UA proves to be powerful and moral, abstaining could give one of those powers an image or being "evil", which could be sufficient incentive for them to join. Or, their incentive to join could be a desire to turn the UA to their own will, whichever moral stance they have chosen.

As I said, I would hope it would become a force for "good", not "evil" but it's an experiment and since no one, not even I, will have any superiority in the organization, it would be interesting to see how it evolves.

I would be interested in participating in such an experiment, but not exactly as presented. If it has any chance of working at all it has to:

Allow any alliance of any age and/or size to apply.
Give an equal vote to each alliance.
Have admission, rejection, and ejection all decided by a simple majority vote.
To avoid accusations or actual instances of favoritism and/or powerbrokering, no individual or alliance will have any office or control over any other individual or alliance but all matters may be presented for a vote by any representative and will be voted on by every representative.
A activity requirement for representatives, which if not kept, the alliance is asked to send a new rep, rather than being kicked from the UA. If on any vote, an alliance rep is not active, the alliance's vote is counted as "Abstained/Absent".
The votes are given a reasonable amount of time for reps to vote, regardless of in which time-zone they reside. (I would say no more than 48 hours on a single vote, but most likely 24 hours would be more efficacious.)
Voting would be done via a poll forum post in the (to be created) "UA" thread, in the politics category on this forum.
Representative must use their in-game character name when voting so that all UA actions are public and there is both transparency and responsibility for the decisions made.

 I may add more suggested policies as I think of them; But, in the meantime, feel free to comment on the above or the over-all package I propose.

Edited by Ivorich Von Forge - 05 Oct 2010 at 02:25