Moderation - Alliances & Organisation Liaison
In addition to the information given in the main section 'Liaisons', the following is information specifically applicable to Alliances.
A liaison will be designated to deal with the Alliance at set-up, as noted above in the Quest Liaison section.
All actions to the Organisation in the Alliances chosen settlement should be for the appropriate liaison's attention.
If an Alliance wants a replacement liaison, which could be for any number of reasons, this is possible, but the old liaison will no longer deal with them. Each liaison is a character, and thus a new liaison may not be as good as the previous liaison, or they might be better. A request to change the liaison requires a Special Action and will also cause a delay on any yet to be processed. Once notification of the new liaison has been received, they can continue without extra delay.
As an Alliance gains more Status by successfully completing Quests they will advance through the ranks.
Everything that applies to a Quest Liaison applies to an Organisation Liaison, but not the reverse. I.e. an Organisation Liaison is the liaison that handles all the Alliance's quests, so an Organisation Liaison is also a Quest Liaison.
If the Alliance asks it's Organisation Liaison for their opinion or advice on anything such as Special Quests then it will cost a SA, as information is provided when the SQ is issued. In addition to a SA status will likely be used.
An Alliance can contact its Organisation Liaison with information about moderation events as a FA in addition to information about a SQ. The Alliance cannot provide information about something and then ask any questions as a FA, each question is a separate action and requires a SA; what the Alliance should do is provide information as a FA and if the Liaison does not reply with what the Alliance would like to know then a SA should be issued to ask a specific question.
Contacting the liaison with matters that are not important can result in a loss of status. This statement may initially worry some players, after all how does one define what is important? The GM gives some leeway when an Alliance is a low rank, which may result in a question being queried by the GM giving the Alliance members a chance to double-check the action. If something will affect an Organisation, the settlement/City-State the Organisation is in, or an allied Organisation/settlement/city-state, then it is likely to be important.
Here is an example of what is not classed as important:
For Example: Informing the liaison that the Alliance is at war with another Alliance who have done nothing more than insult the Alliance, declare war and/or attacked parties outside of the settlements related to the Organisation and thus the information is not important.
Reason: The enemy Alliance has not yet carried out anything against the Organisation, the settlement the Organisation is in, or part of the City-State. Players are generally renowned for giving big speeches declaring war, then peace, then neutrality and so on. If the Alliance was required to contact the liaison to keep the Organisation up to date with the Alliance's political relations it will consume a sizeable amount of GM time, and thus it is not required hence the status cost for taking up liaison and GM time.
An Alternate Solution: The Alliance could simply request a ban on the enemy Alliance. If the Alliance firmly believes that there is a problem then the Alliance should issue a SA and request the ban, if the Alliance provides reasons for the ban then it could have a reduced status cost. There is of course a chance that if the enemy Alliance or the Organisation/settlement/city-state has a history of causing problems that there will be no status loss.
Here is an example of what is classed as important:
For Example: Informing the liaison that the Alliance is on bad terms with another Alliance who have definitely been carrying out hostile actions in a village that is part of the City-State is important.
Reason: If the Alliance knows that something is definitely happening, and by definitely the Alliance needs to have had results on their turn proving that something has happened and not just quote anyone's comments that something has happened, then the Alliance should probably use the information by at least informing the Organisation Liaison. The Organisation Liaison may then come back to the Alliance with the Organisation's opinion on the matter, which could result in a SQ being prepared for the next cycle, offers of rewards for more information; what is important that as the Alliance only provided information and did not ask a question then no SA was required and no status would have been used.
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