Alliance banner and purse
The alliance's emblem, flag and banner, all paid from the alliance purse that members fill with donations.
Three pieces
| Piece | What | Where it appears |
|---|---|---|
| Emblem | One device on a painted shield: an animal, a weapon, a plant, a ship | At the top of the alliance page; beside the alliance's name in the city window on the island, in an alliance search, on invitations and in the ranking |
| Flag | Woven cloth with a device at its centre | Over the cities of the alliance's members on the island, and on the alliance page |
| Banner | A tall wall painting about the alliance | At the top of the alliance page, with the alliance's name |
Only appearance
All three are only appearance; they do not touch battle, production or speed. No writing appears anywhere in the drawing: the game writes the alliance's name and tag over the banner in its own type.
The alliance page
Wherever you press an alliance's name its page opens: in the results of an alliance search, on the alliances tab of the ranking, and in the city window on the island. You reach your own alliance's page from the Diplomacy screen, with the Alliance page button on the alliance card; the Diplomacy link at the very top of the page takes you back.
The top of the page carries the alliance's banner, its emblem in front of it, and beside that its name, tag, flag and description; under them stand its leader, number of members, place in the ranking and founding date. On the left the members are listed with their offices and portraits. In the Banner box on the right you choose between Emblem, Flag and Banner and see the piece the alliance flies. Everybody sees these. The members' cities are not listed on this page, not even for members: nobody's cities are shown gathered in one place. Press the banner, emblem or flag and it opens full size; you can report it from there.
On another alliance's page, an Apply to join button stands at the top if you may join; if you may not, the reason is written there instead. On your own alliance's page the public link, the alliance purse, the price of each banner piece and the alliance's requests are added. The leader can also write the description from this page, with the Write the description link under the name.
The public page
Members see, in the Public link box at the top of the alliance page, the address of the alliance's page that opens from outside the game too; Copy the link copies it and Public page opens it in a new tab. Whoever opens that link sees the alliance's banner, emblem, flag, description, leader and number of members without logging in; not the members' names or the purse. This is where a banner is most useful: you share it when you gather players for your alliance.
The alliance purse
An alliance has a purse of its own, apart from its members' personal purses. Every member can donate to it from their own Seals; the banner pieces are paid only from this purse, never from anybody's own.
The number you type in the donation box cannot go past your own Seals; All writes every Seal you have. If you have none, the box is replaced by the reason and a Get Seals button.
A donation counts as spent and cannot be taken back. It stays in the purse if you leave the alliance or are removed from it; press the A donation cannot be taken back line in the purse to read the whole rule. Every member sees the purse's book: who donated what, and what the leader had made.
Who spends
The alliance's leader (Hegemon) or its treasurer (Tamias) spends the purse. In the Banner box the price of the chosen piece stands beside what is in the purse; if the purse is short, it says by how many Seals. Only those two ask for a new emblem, flag or banner: the request box, the picture button and the Spend Seals and make it button are shown to them alone. The other members see the price, the pieces made and the alliance's requests in the same box, but cannot ask. The leader or the treasurer also chooses which emblem, flag and banner are flown. The first of each is flown on its own when it is ready. The leader or the treasurer can remove a piece from the collection; if it is being flown it comes down, and the Seals spent do not return to the purse.
If the alliance is disbanded
When an alliance is disbanded, the Seals left in its purse go back to the donors who are still members at that moment. Whatever share of all the donations ever made to the purse was yours, that share of what is left is yours: if you gave a quarter of the total, you get a quarter of what remains. Donations from members who left count towards that total, but their share goes back to nobody. So nobody can get back more than they gave, and no Seal ever passes from one player to another.
While a piece is being made for the alliance, the leader cannot disband it; that has to finish first. The alliance's emblem, flag and banner go with it.
A sharing example
| Situation | What happens |
|---|---|
| 100 Seals were donated to the purse in all and 80 are left; Ayşe, still a member, gave 30 and Mert, still a member, gave 10 | Ayşe gave three tenths of the total, so she gets three tenths of what is left, 24 Seals; Mert gave one tenth and gets 8. |
| Selin, who gave the other 60 Seals of the total, left the alliance earlier | Selin gets nothing, and the 48 Seals that would have been her share go to nobody. |
| Eren donated 500 Seals and left the alliance; the leader donated 1 Seal and disbanded it | The leader gets 1 Seal back; Eren's donation does not pass to anyone. |
| The division does not come out even | Each share is rounded down; the few Seals left over go to nobody. |
Request examples
| Piece and what is written | What comes out |
|---|---|
| Emblem: "a black owl with spread wings on a round red shield" | A painted shield in the style of Greek shield devices. |
| Flag: "a white trireme on a navy field" | Woven cloth with a trireme at its centre. |
| Banner: "a line of hoplites marching out of a city gate at dawn" | A wall painting of a city gate, the sea and marching hoplites. |
| Emblem: "a shield with the alliance's name written on it" | The shield is drawn but no writing is put on it: the game prints the writing itself. |
| Flag: the flag of a real country | Refused: real countries' and political symbols are not accepted. |
Everything else
Adding a picture, the content rules, payment and the states shown in the list are the same for every Seal product: see the Seals article.
The figures come from the game's own content. Balance updates can move some numbers; the rules themselves are as written here.