Blood Moon [MOON]

Founded By:

Oneeye

Founded On:

27FEB14 04:58

Blood Moon is a neutral, non-aggressive training and mentoring alliance with an aim to be a first home for new players looking for advice, resources, and mentoring as they learn the numerous aspects of the Illy sandbox.   

• We are a resourceful alliance with an active alliance chat (AC) that can really be of benefit to a new member who is committed to the game and interested in growing at an accelerated rate.

• We can provide that to new players; our experienced members have great expertise to share regarding anything and everything in the game.

• We enjoy the company of other members

• We enjoy working together to grow and prosper.  

• We frown on offensive actions against active players who benefit the community.

• Graduation occurs when a player reaches 5 cities, or earlier if requested

So, if you feel that Blood Moon is a good fit for you and you are looking for a fun and friendly environment, please contact Erista, Jodamyth or Oneeye  for an invitation or more information.

Hunting and Gathering:

Blood Moon reserves the right to ask that you do not hunt, occupy and/or gather within 5 squares of any MOON town without prior notification via IGM. Prior communication will ensure that any act of this type will not be seen as aggressive; which in turn ensures that inter-alliance relationships are maintained with courtesy and diplomacy.

Rare Resource Policy:

• The preferred method of making a claim to rare herbs and minerals is to claim sovereignty or place an army at the location of the resource.  We do ask that if you would like to harvest rare herbs and minerals within 10 (TEN) squares of any Blood Moon city that you please contact the city owner.  We expect our own members to extend the same courtesy.

• If you are in an alliance that has a Non-Aggression Pact (NAP) with us, please do not take advantage of a Blood Moon army guarding a square for its owner.This is inconsiderate and could lead to a rare resource being over harvested.  We ask that you contact the owner of the army for permission and would expect our own members offer the same courtesy.

Diplomacy Issues:

As an alliance with no offensive objectives we will refrain from initiating such action against active players who benefit the community.  Our members may take offensive action against abandoned and inactive players who are outside of an alliance.  The determination of who is inactive will be made by alliance leadership and are based on the data made available through the growth graphs available for the player.  In questionable cases our members will reach out via IGM seeking a response to verify activity.

Blood Moon is interested in forming relationships with other alliances that have similar goals.  We would consider supporting alliances or individual players who are experiencing unwanted aggression.   

For diplomatic matters such as NAP's and Confeds, or issues regarding any of our members, please contact Erista or JodaMyth.

Alliance Land Claim Policy:

Blood Moon recognises that for some alliances, land claims are useful to ensure other alliances are aware of their intention to cluster in a particular area. However, what MOON does NOT recognise are the seemingly aggressively worded land claims by some alliances; that are implying that established players may be driven out of an area. By closing down these claimed areas entirely and forcing settled towns out, with the threat of being razed is in my, and my alliance's opinion, wrong.

Therefore our stance is that we:

• Support the existing Illy community "10 square rule"

• Respect statements of intention to cluster and headquarter.

• All existing cities should be allowed to remain.

• Any town that was en route to a "claimed" area should be allowed to coexist with the claiming alliance.

• Any player that already has existing towns in a claimed area should be able to continue growing and clustering within said area, with no threat of hostility

Arranged Competition and Exercises:

In addition to competitions among the membership of Blood Moon we are also interested in participating in joint exercises with other alliances.

Roles in MOON:

Rank	Requirement	Role
High Priestess		Alliance Leader
High Priest		Deputy Alliance Leader
Blood Emissary	Invitation Only	MOON Ambassador & Head of Diplomacy
Blood Entrepreneur	Invitation Only	Trade Specialist
Blood Practitioner	Invitation Only	Feeders and Basic Mentors
Blood Disciple	Invitation Only	Military/Tourney Focused Players
Blood Devotee	2+4 Towns
Blood Novice	1 Town
Awaiting Blood	Leadership Decision	New Member Placement / Probationer