Hey there, hi there, ho there.
Alliances are done, for the time being at least.
Here's the quick rundown.
You can set up alliances, join them, leave them. any alliances with no members should be cleaned out naturally as i recall.
NEW and EXISTING features:
1. There's two membership types now, "Open" where anyone can join and have immediate access to everything, and "Restricted" where the members themselves must pass vote the player in (or reject them) collectively.
2. Improved details, such as founding date, founder, (eventually a logo).
3. The Founder has some limited CEO executive powers. at present it consists of the capacity of accelerating entry votes, there are a few small restrictions for this power (CEO is restricted to accelerating only the majority vote when over half the members have voted).
4. The capability of limited sharing of each other's hubs. At present, you can set up an alliance to share between 0 and 25 routes (in 5 route increments). these are shared alliance wide, so not all members are likely to get a lot of alliances each.
5. Alliance rankings cumulative, see who's members are the most valuable as a whole.
Future Features:
6. In the next age we're going to implement codeshares as an effect on demand, but again, it is not and will not be implemented immediately.
7. Alliance votes will be expanded, possibly even a new addition of membership types and the ability to change aspects of the alliance.
