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Old February 7th, 2007, 01:31 AM

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Default Re: Alliances.....Are they broken?

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Romulus68 said:
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President_Elect_Shang said:
Only if it is allowed by the Alliance settings.
I need to look at it again. I didn't see and option to allow or disallow treaties.

In a PBW game that we formed an Alliance (just 2 now) and we can't seem to offer treaties from the alliance chambers. When i hit Send it says we aren't allowed per the alliance rules, but I don't see where it says we can't in the alliance rules??

Is it worded "Weirdly" or something?
Heya Romulus,

I just entered into a 2 player alliance myself and ran into the same problem this turn. After playing with the UI a bit, here's how I *think* you send treaty proposals to newly met players who aren't part of your alliance.

First off, go to the empires screen. You'll see an option for "Alliance Chambers." From there, you'll have an option for "propose new message." This will pop up a dialogue asking for the target empire, and after selecting that, you'll get the standard interface for sending a message, including new treaties.

Now, here's where I start speculating. I assume every alliance member now has to approve the message. Your draft probably spends a turn getting sent to the other members, who will likely have to vote on it. If it gets approved, I would presume the message gets sent out and the new treaty elements updated for all alliance members. I don't know if the message gets sent right away to the third party, or if it spends a turn in limbo as everyone is informed as to the results of the vote.

Hope this helps.

The problem I'm actually running into with alliances, is as follows. When my ally to be and I met, we signed a standard non-agression treaty. When we allied, one of the elements was for allowing colonies in each other's space, as we wanted to share a border system. However, everytime I try to colonize there, I'm told my treaty doesn't allow it (he had colonized the system first). Hope this gets addressed next patch.

-Hippo
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