Disbanding: Elgea PvP League

UPDATE 12/2/12: The Elgea PvP League West is disbanding. There are two reasons for this. (1) I feel the current political climate is unsuitable for this project and too detrimental to recruitment to proceed at this time. (2) I believe I require more experience in Illyriad before I can run my own alliance.

The PvP League East is still functioning and recruiting. Lath had decided to maintain his portion of the alliance. As I understand it, he seems to be entertaining the idea of a military-based training alliance. If anyone is interested in joining, contact Lath via In-Game Message.

UPDATE 11/9/12: The Elgea PvP League is adding a training program for new players with an interest in military, diplomatic, and magical warfare. At Lath's proposal, the PvP League is adding a new "apprentice" program to bolster recruitment. Any player under 5000 population and less than 3 months' experience can become an apprentice. Apprentices will be safe from all forms of attack and provided with the knowledge and resources necessary for becoming a substantial force in combat. Interested players should send an in-game message to Lath or Hadus (myself), or better yet, post here on the forum.

The Elgea PvP League* is now accepting invitation requests! If you yearn for an open form of Player vs Player combat that allows for greater degrees of freedom while protecting participants from annihilation, look no further!

The PvP League is actually two alliances, run by myself and Lath, set in a constant struggle against each other. New members are sorted into one alliance or the other, and let loose to engage each other in all sorts of different forms of combat. While we strive for freedom of action, a number of rules are put in place to temper the more permanently destructive strategies available.

The first Season of combat is approaching! We would like to start by December 1st at the latest, possibly before then depending on the number of interested players. Below is a host of information regarding recruitment, the way Seasons will work, and anything else that will help you determine if you wish to participate. Members can join without fear of commitment, as they may leave at any time, although they are encouraged to wait until the end of a Season to do so. For other alliances and on-the-fence players, we have included a guest system that lets you try out our alliance for one season to get a feel for how we operate.

*name change pending

Alliance Links

PvP League (west)

PvP League (east)

Edited by Hadus - 02 Dec 2012 at 22:58

cool idea Hadus, well done.

dont think it will work, there too many egos amongst the people controlling the alliances, this is a war game, it looks like it is finally going to be played that way....we do have training alliances, if u dont want pvp u should go into one of them

I have a very similar idea to this that I want to start after the war. The main difference is that I will use mine as a military training alliance then send my little warriors out into the world. Since very small players don't usually have troops the minimum will be 3 self-sufficient cities and I will welcome guest generals from other alliances. It is not meant to contain players that want PvP but rather to prepare players for actual combat which is something that has been frowned upon by many in the game. 

Edited by Myr - 28 Oct 2012 at 10:49

A good and creative initiative Hadus that ,if successful, might lead to the instutionalisation of conflict within Illy. Being a pessimist I tend to think that project itself might be a tad over ambitious and yet the idea has enough merit to make me  say that the community should rally behind it - to see if we can acutally make it work.