Hierarchy

There are no rules on how an alliance must be run and the following is merely a guide, you can use any possible combination to find your own best way of running an alliance.
Positions

In general, an alliance will not have one founder and the rest just regular members, instead there will be some sort of officer and leader set-up, so you will have:

• Founders: One or two people you implicitly trust, usually others who helped found the alliance, these people will have the full founder rights.
• Leaders: People you trust who have good leadership abilities.
• Some sort of High-Council or Senate: a combinations of people whose advice you trust but have no other rights, and the more trusted officers, these people have internal forum rights.
• Recruiter(s): People in charge of recruiting members, sometimes leaders just do this when an alliance stops recruiting as much.
• Diplomat(s): People in charge of performing diplomacy with other alliances, as with recruiters, sometimes leaders simply perform the diplomacy
• Forum mod(s): People with forum mod abilities, who will keep the forum tidy and easy to read, they also remove profanity if it's part of the alliance rules.
• Task Force Leaders: People who lead small groups of players in the alliance to help with organization, only use these if you are absolutely confident of your organization abilities.
• Reservations Admin. People who are in charge of looking over the reservations and making sure that everything is in order.

Available Rights
Now, the available rights for these people in the hierarchy are:

Icon	Title	Description
	Founder	Has the same as rights as leaders as well as being able to rename the alliance and dissolve the alliance. Founders can kick out other founders
	Leader	In addition to all below rights, leaders also have the ability to edit/create/delete forum tabs, alter internal announcements and alliance profile and to kick out members. Leaders can kick out other leaders but not founders.
	Invitation	Gives ability to invite players.
	Diplomacy	Allows a person to set the status of diplomatic relations with another alliance
	Mass mail	Gives a more convenient option to be able to mail the entire alliance at once.
	Forum moderator	Gives the ability to edit, process, or delete posts and to move, lock, or delete threads. They can't create, edit or delete tabs.
	Internal forums	Gives ability to access the hidden forums of an alliance.
	Reservations Administrator	Gives the ability for someone to administrate the reservations for your alliance. They are able to remove reservations created by players in your alliance.

The rights below the dashed line are all completely independent of each other, founders have every single right, leaders have all the bottom 6 rights as well as their own rights.

Setting privileges
In order to give people privileges (rights), you should first make sure that you trust a person and they ought to be quite active in the game. This is done by observing this person to see if they are the type to help alliance members, you might know a person previously, you might ask another person that you trust, etc. This is one of the most important factors of choosing someone for a position. Furthermore, you must check that they are actually competent, so here is what you probably need:

• Leaders: Good administrating, not abusive of power, do not choose leaders because they are ultra-high in points, good players are not necessarily good administrators, so choose wisely, particularly because leaders can be very powerful.
• Recruiters: Follow orders, can spot potentially good players are willing to deal with lots of mail (if you are a top alliance).
• Diplomats: Must have good judgement and good people skills.
• Forum mods: Make sure you trust them not to unnecessarily delete threads, posts, make it seem like people have said something they haven't, etc.
• High council: People you trust and whose advice you want in certain situations

Assigning the rights
In order to give rights, you go to the alliance tab, click members, and then click 'edit authorizations' and then check/uncheck rights for those people.

Related articles

• Joining Alliances
• How do I join an alliance?
• Founding an Alliance
• Diplomacy
• Can I help a new member with resources, so they grows faster and can be of better help for my alliance?