Alliances or Guilds for multiplayer. ("Guild-System")

[Radagast]

Accounts' primary keys that are stored in the online database could be referenced in a new table called "alliance" or "guild".

` Ally | Member | isCouncillor

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Gallic Alliance | Vercinget0rix | true Gallic Alliance | Getafix | true ... Free Cities | Venedig ` The civilization should probably be free to choose?

Game start changes required. When starting a multiplayer Alliance game from the Guild/Alliance-home, then all members that are currently online are given as parameter to the gamesetup screen and are automatically marked as allies (same team).

Several GUI pages could be useful:

• Alliance/Guild home/lobby. (fortress or diplomacy/embassy saloon showing all members, marking those that are online in a lighter color hue).
• Alliance/Guild ranking.

Essentially an own lobby.

Member functions:

• Donate gold coins into the guild' treasury. (can be used for further upgrading the guild lobby, e.g. higher member limit. Starting with 4 members?)
• Guild chat.

Councillor Functions:

• Invite member. (best via setting up a poll, 50% of the members have to agree to. yes no vote.)
• Kick member (dissolve alliance).

On top of Guilds, a online diplomacy system could be developed, allowing Guilds to forge alliances with other guilds. (though essentially this can be handled on a per game setting in the diplomacy panel. thus there are no changes needed.)

[leper]

Clans can be created without adding a lot of logic to simulate some other game in a game lobby.