RULES
A “quorum” directive is one that has been agreed by all 3 Founders. Individual Founders can only make requests and are subject to quorum directives.
A Founder can only be removed by agreement of the remaining 2 Founders and 100% of Council members.
Council members are appointed or removed by a quorum decision of the Founders.
Council members can only make requests and are subject to all quorum directives like any other member.
Council members responsibilities are to carry out and police quorum directives as well as advising the Founders.
A) Only and all Founders quorum directives are binding and must be followed. Non quorum directives are not binding and are to be viewed as requests.
B) The following Founder quorum directives, which are subject to change, must be followed at all times.
a. Timezone = UTC + 1 London. All players to set timezone to this in the settings menu in order to ensure we communicate similar times to each other.
b. Activity. You must participate in all defensive and offensive operations or post the reasons you cannot in the relevant alliance forum threads. Logging on just once a day for 5 minutes won’t cut it. If you need time for “Real Life” issues, post in the “Vacation” thread and follow the instructions there. “Freeloaders” will be expelled immediately.
c. Always, without exception, when you are going offline send all you offensive forces on attack missions to approved targets or to friendly locations (yes you can attack your own cities as it will not hurt them) making sure they return back when you will be online. Plus enlist militia.
d. Always, without exception, post in a thread according to the instructions on posting for that thread. Posts that do not comply will be immediately deleted. You can always propose improvements to the posting rules.
e. Only and always post in the Defence tab when your city is revolted (according to the posting instructions). You should always dodge attacks and only bring full defence to bare against CS conquest attacks.
f. Tripwires must be checked and maintained at least once a week. If a tripwire is triggered it must be posted in the Defence tab immediately (according to the posting instructions). 1 sword is sufficient for a tripwire if on the same island.
g. “Doing your own thing” in terms of where you colonise or conquer is not permitted at the moment (this may change in the medium term). You are only permitted to conquer or colonise as directed, which will be island by island. This doesn’t mean you can’t attack other targets for farming purposes, or to erode forces of a potential threat, or to gain ABP.
h. From time to time you may be directed to build a specific type of city on an island. Or change an existing city type.
i. You must not provoke or attack another alliance except when directed to do so. You must be respectful to both alliance members and any enemy, even if you are provoked. If you receive abuse or threats from any alliance member or enemy, it must be reported to the Founders immediately.
j. Persistent non compliance with any or all quorum directives by any member (founders and council members included) will result in a member’s expulsion from the alliance and most likely result in some or all of your cities being taken.
k. Once you join the alliance you join for life. If you wish to leave the alliance for any reason, you must give advanced warning and handover all your cities on core islands.
l. Inactivity will not be tolerated. Once you have gone inactive for two days or turn yellow you will be put in Internals and your cities will be eaten. No exceptions.
C) We extend grepolis to skype chat rooms where we all talk real time and get to know each other and help each other with anything and everything in the game and/or life. YOU ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO GET ON SKYPE. Simply download skype (www.skype.com) and then search for members.