R4/R5 promotion criteria generator

Why write promotion criteria down

Century Games doesn't publish official rules for who becomes R4 or R3 — every promotion decision sits entirely with the R5 leader. That's exactly why it goes wrong: members guess at the bar, feel passed over, and the alliance absorbs drama that a posted set of criteria would have prevented. Typical criteria used by alliance leaders combine a power floor, a minimum activity window, a KvK participation expectation, and sometimes a kill points or rally attendance threshold. None of this is Kingshot's official policy — it's a starting point you adjust to your alliance's actual standards.

Making it stick

• Pin it once, point to it forever. A posted criteria list turns "why wasn't I promoted" into "you're at 60 days, the bar is 90" — a fact, not an argument.
• Pull the numbers from your own roster before setting a bar nobody can hit — check current member power and activity with the Alliance Roster tracker.
• Announce the promotion itself with the promotion announcement template once someone clears the bar.
• Review the bar after a KvK season — participation and kill point thresholds that made sense last season may be stale next season.

More for alliance leaders — or see the Leader Hub: everything in one place

• Alliance rules templates — copy-paste rule sets (casual, competitive, KvK-war) to pin alongside your promotion criteria.
• Recruitment message templates — world-chat posts, DMs, requirement boards and merger invites.
• Alliance Roster tracker — track members, sort by power, export CSV before you set a bar.
• Alliance leadership guide — R1–R5 explained, officer duties, and how strong alliances actually run.