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Alliances are groups of players playing together. These groups can hold up to 60 players. In order to found an alliance or to join an already existing one you need an embassy level 3 resp. level 1. The embassy can hold 3 additional members per level but only the founder's embassy counts. If an embassy gets destroyed, either yours or the founder's, you won't leave the alliance but stay a member.

What do I get for extending the embassy?

Which options do I have after building an embassy?

If you have an invitation in your embassy, you can accept it with an embassy level 1. To found an alliance you need an embassy level 3 or higher. Within the alliance you can have following rights/options:

• Overview: the alliance profile with a member listing
• Forum: either an external forum or the alliance forum offered by Travian
• Attacks: listing of every attack an alliance member was involved in
• News: news regarding the alliance, e.g. quits, joins, offerings for naps or alliances
• Options: options you might have in your alliance:
  • Assign to position: here you can assign rights and ranks to your fellow alliance mates
  • Change name: here you can change the name and tag of your alliance
  • Kick player: here you can kick members from the alliance
  • Change alliance description: here you can change the alliance description
  • Alliance diplomacy: here you can start wars with other alliances or offer them NAPs or alliances
  • Invite player into the alliance: here you can invite new players into the alliance (they need an embassy level 1 to join)
  • Link to the forum: here you can edit the alliance forum offered by Travian or set a link to an external one
  • Quit alliance: here you can quit your current alliance
• With the colored dots you can judge the activity of your fellow alliance mates:
  • blue = online
  • green = was online in the past 24h
  • yellow = was online in the past 3 days
  • red = was online in the past 7 days
  • grey = wasn't online in the past 7 days
  In Travian 2 the right to see these dots was needed but in Travian 3 everyone in the alliance can see them without any additional rights.

In February 2008 a new alliance forum was introduced for Travian. This new forum supports public boards, confederation boards, alliance boards and closed boards. Below is a small tutorial on how to create all of those categories.

Starting out
You can start making an alliance forum by clicking the button when you are in the 'forum' tab of your alliance menu. When you click this button, you'll see a menu for making a new forum. As already said, it is possible to add four kinds of forums. They are all described below.

• Public board
  A public board can be read by anyone in the game, but can only be posted on by the members of the alliance where the forum belongs to. A board of this kind can be used for applications, announcements and more.
  
  
• Confederation board
  This kind of board is meant for alliances and their wings. When you view the menu for making a new board like this, you will see you have to add alliances who are able to read and post on this forum. This can be done with the alliance ID or tag. Your alliance can always use the forum, you do not need to add it. Clicking the '+' icon in the list creates an extra list item to add an alliance in.
  
  
  
• Alliance board
  The Alliance board is the simplest of all boards meant only for your alliance members. The only thing you have to do is filling in the forum name and description and add the forum. This board can only be viewed and posted on by your alliance members.
  
  
• Closed board
  This type of board works pretty much the same as a confederation board. The board can only be viewed and posted on by people added in the list you will automatically get when trying to make a new board of this type. Players can be added by their ID or player name. The board will not be visible to anyone but people added to this list and the board admin(s). Again, you can add another item to the list by clicking the '+' button.
  

The results
Below is an image of a forum you could get when following the steps used as example above. Here the areas of the forum are marked. Red represents the public boards who can be read by anyone but only posted on by alliance members. Blue represents a board only accessible by members of alliances added to the forum. The green part are the alliance forums, who can be viewed and posted at by alliance members. Finally, yellow is a closed board which can only be read and posted on by players added to the forums.



When you click the button, the images left to the forums change into small menus to edit your forum. Click a little bit around those small menus and see what happens.

BBCode
The new forums only accept a specific set of BBCode entities. Below is a list.

• [b]Bold[/b]
• [u]Underlined[/u]
• [i]Italic[/i]
• [color=red]Red text[/color]
• [quote]Quote block[/quote] OR [quote=Player name]Quote block with 'written by' box[/quote]
• [list] [*]list item [*]list item [list]
• [village=(x-coord|y-coord)] or [village=x-coord|y-coord] or [village=mapid] gives a link to the village overview There are currently some problems with this entity
• [player=uid] gives a link to the specified player profile There are currently some problems with this entity
• [alliance=aid] gives a link to the specified alliance profile There are currently some problems with this entity
• [Legionnaire] legionnaire icon. This can be done with any troop kind, make sure to use the correct spelling, including capatalization! Look in the ingame instructions for exact spelling.

The codes above only work for the .com forums. When using in another language you have to use the tags in the corresponding language. For example, the german tag for [village=] is [dorf=].
The [color=] tag can hold the following values: 'aqua', 'black', 'blue', 'fuchsia', 'gray', 'green', 'lime', 'maroon', 'navy', 'olive', 'purple', 'red', 'silver', 'teal', 'white', 'yellow' as well as process colour values in hexadecimal writing-wise as for example *00F or *0000FF (for blue).