🔬 Alliance tech
Alliance tech guide
A hundred small daily donations, compounded into permanent buffs for everyone. What to research first, when to pivot to war tech, and how leaders keep the whole roster donating.
Alliance tech in one breath: members donate resources daily into a shared research tree; every finished node buffs all 100 members permanently. Early: growth tech (build & research speed) compounds hardest. Later: war tech before your first serious KvK. Donors earn Alliance Tokens for the Alliance Shop either way — donating is never charity.
How the system works
- Each member gets daily donation chances; donating resources (or gems) pushes the selected tech's research bar and earns the donor contribution points and Alliance Tokens.
- The tree splits broadly into growth/development tech (construction speed, research speed, gathering, embassy/assist capacity) and battle tech (combat stats, march/rally capacity).
- Finished nodes buff every member, permanently — which is why a coordinated alliance out-compounds a scattered one within weeks.
- R4/R5s can flag a recommended tech so members see exactly where to donate. Most members follow the flag — set it deliberately.
⚠️ Node names, order and unlock requirements vary by game version — treat the branch logic here as the strategy layer and confirm the exact tree in-game.
The priority order Community consensus
Phase 1 — Growth first (young alliance)
Early on, nothing competes with construction speed and research speed tech: those buffs apply to every queue in every member's city, every hour of every day. Community guides consistently put accelerated construction → accelerated research at the front, with embassy/assist tech (more help slots, longer assist effects) close behind — it makes every "Help All" tap stronger.
What to skip early
The small resource-production nodes (quarry/farm output buffs) look cheap but return far less than speed tech — a few percent on passive production versus hours off every build. Park them for later.
Phase 2 — Battle tech before the wars
Roughly two weeks before your first serious KvK window (or capital fights), pivot the flag to battle tech: combat stat nodes and anything that grows rally/march capacity. Two weeks of focused donations is usually enough to walk into the war with the core combat nodes lit.
The leader's rule: one flagged tech at a time, announced in the notice, changed on a schedule. A hundred people donating at one node finishes it in days; a hundred people donating at whim finishes nothing.
What donors get back: Alliance Tokens
Donations pay the donor in Alliance Tokens, spent in the Alliance Shop on genuinely useful items — speedups, teleports, VIP tokens and city shields. Two disciplines make this pay:
- Dump your chances daily before they cap — capped chances are tokens you never earn. Make it part of the daily loop next to alliance help.
- Spend tokens on shields and teleports before big wars — the two items you can never have too many of in a KvK week. (Members low on shields is a leader problem; the shop is the fix. See the shield guide.)
The R4/R5 playbook
- Flag one tech and announce it — a one-line notice ("Donations → Accelerated Construction this week") is enough. A copy-ready notice template takes ten seconds.
- Put "donate daily" in your alliance rules — it's free for members (they profit in tokens), so it belongs next to "alliance help daily" in the rules notice.
- Watch the contribution board before promotions — donation consistency is one of the most honest activity signals an R5 has.
- Time the Battle pivot off the event rotation — KvK matchmaking dates are visible weeks ahead.