Are Alliances That Good?

Most players want to join an alliance after they play GoodGame Empire for a while. But what can alliances do for the player? Most people want to join alliances in order to increase the protection for their castle. However, after you take a closers look, that is completely unnecessary. If you have ever attacked a real player, or even a robber baron castle, you know that there is a limited amount of soldiers and tools you can send to attack other castes. This limit depends on the level of your enemy. This is system is there for the purpose that it is hard to completely overwhelm your enemies. So as long as you continually make at least five soldiers every time you level up, your opponents shouldn't be able to overwhelm you. Plus, even in an alliance, not many players is willing to sacrifice their own defenses to help yours.

The only reason that I would join an alliance would probably be for sword brothers. The more sword brothers you have, the more different places you can attack. However, it is quite easy to get sword brothers even without an alliance by making deals with random players to exchange one of your sword brothers for one of theirs. If you have a different opinion about alliances, please write a comment about your thoughts below!