Dev Update: Alliance Assault

Greetings, Commanders!
Today we are incredibly excited to announce that Alliance vs Alliance content is nearly upon us!

In the near future we shall be releasing a beta version of the Alliance vs Alliance system to the live servers. During this initial beta period, we are seeking your feedback. See below for a brief overview of the Alliance Assault, and the beta formatting

Alliance Assault is a new game mode that introduces a way for you to battle against other Alliances. Alliance Assaults are broken up into 2 phases of the battle, each phase lasts 24 hours.

During this phase, Alliances will be matched against another alliance of similar power. Players of each alliance will have a 24hour period to deploy 2 defensive fleets on their own FoBs. When placing defenses, you will need to deploy 2 completely unique fleets, as a unit can only be used in one fleet at a time. If a player has participated in an Alliance Assault before, their defensive fleet will be defaulted to their previous defense.
At the conclusion of the 24-hour countdown, the Assault Phase will begin and each Alliance will commence their Assault on the enemy defenses.

During the attack Phase, each player will have two attack tokens. Each attack token enables you to target an enemy player FoB and attack their defensive fleets. After placing your fleet and pressing engage, the attacking player's fleet will commence combat against both defensive fleets in succession as a waved combat, with the combat ending early if your attacking fleet is destroyed.

When attacking, each defensive fleet you defeat will deal damage to both that player's FoB, as well as contribute towards the alliance total damage dealt. Once a FoB is fully defeated, it can still be attacked by other players but no additional damage will be dealt to the alliance total damage.

Players will be given individual rewards each time they defeat an enemy fleet, and Alliance bonus rewards will be given at the conclusion of the attack phase based on scoring.

After the attack phase concludes, each alliance will be granted additional rewards based on the total damage they collectively dealt to their enemy and their Alliance's current ranking. These rewards can be claimed by visiting the Alliance Assault panel.

After the attack phase concludes, alliances will gain or lose ranking based on which alliance dealt the most damage to the other.

At the conclusion of each Alliance Assault, there will be a timer displaying a countdown to the next Assault. At this current stage, we intend for Alliance Assaults to occur twice per week.

During the beta, we are focusing largely on the mechanical engagement and battle formatting. Therefore, the Alliance Assaults will be accessible from the homebase only, participation will be voluntary and both the individual and alliance-wide rewards shall not be distributed during this testing period. At the conclusion of the beta testing period however, we will have some special surprises for all Alliances that took part ;)

All Beta Alliance Assaults will be announced via our Discord announcements channels approximately 24-48hours before their preparation phase is scheduled to begin.

Throughout this period we are seeking your feedback on defense fleet placement, attack order format, and the waved combat structure.