Has alliance war killed alliances?

I've been playing haypi for several months now, and ever since day 1 the concept of an alliance made sense to me. By being in an alliance I benefited from two major ways:

1) By being in a strong alliance other players are less likely to attack me, knowing that they risk being attacked back.

2) Alliance members would sell each other resources cheap, because they know that they would get the favour returned in the future.

However Alliance wars have come in, and changed everything.

There is no way of knowing who is a strong or weak alliance. The strongest prestige alliance is those who have donated a lot. However an alliance who has donated little and instead spent those resources in building troops are going to be stronger in the game.

There is also now an incentive to donate resources. This means that people are not going to sell, either to each other or at full price in the Market. This has given an upward pressure on prices, which is good, but it has also wiped out the other reason for an alliance.


So I ask again, has alliance war killed alliances?

of course not! there are more alliances on my server than I can count lmfao!!!

besides, there is a way to tell who is a strong alliance (I guess you mean an alliance that has members with a lot of prestige).....Its called......wait for it.....SCOUTING!

buahahaha who would have thought?

I see your point but I also disagree. My alliance is still offering resources to other players under a "personal-armies-always-come-first" mantra. But we are also constantly building our alliance army and haven't done shabby in the rankings. Not to mention the AC is always booming (it was before too, but there's even more members there now) and the cooperation between players coordinating and preparing is very impressive. I am happy with the way it has brought my alliance into being more..."alliance-y". However, I think it was very poorly thought out and lacks a lot of potential.

I see your point but I also disagree. My alliance is still offering resources to other players under a "personal-armies-always-come-first" mantra. But we are also constantly building our alliance army and haven't done shabby in the rankings. Not to mention the AC is always booming (it was before too, but there's even more members there now) and the cooperation between players coordinating and preparing is very impressive. I am happy with the way it has brought my alliance into being more..."alliance-y". However, I think it was very poorly thought out and lacks a lot of potential.

why? care to expound on that last bit?