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Click on the 'Members' tab in the lower right of the screen to display a list of all of the members of your nation. Beside the name of each member is the member's rank (see
Member Ranks, below) and a tally of the number of points that that
member has earned for your nation (and any other nations they may
have belonged to). Finally there is an indication of whether the
member is currently online or offline.
The List of Members
Clicking
on a member's entry in the Members List will bring up the Member
Screen for that member, which can be used to change the member's
rank or remove them from the nation. For more information see the
section on the Member Screen, below.
Each of a nation's members has a rank, which is displayed next to the
member's name in the Members List on the Nation panel. There are
seven different ranks: Sovereign, Co-Sovereign, General, Captain,
Commander, Warrior, and Civilian. The member that creates the nation
automatically becomes its first and only Sovereign. Any new member
who joins the nation starts out as a Civilian, but can be promoted
by the nation's higher ranking members. Ranks exist so that new
members of a nation don't have to be trusted with power that could
be used to harm the nation, until they've proven themselves to the
nation's other members. Only members who have time and again proven
their trustworthiness should be considered for the highest ranks
of General or Co-Sovereign. Below are descriptions of the various
abilities that the different ranks do and do not have.
•Civilian - When a new player joins a nation, she starts out as a Civilian. It's up to the higher ranking members of the nation to promote the
new player, if they choose to accept her as a member of their nation.
Civilians can do little else besides chatting, viewing the map,
and purchasing credits.
•Warrior - A Warrior can do everything that a Civilian can do, as well as settle
land, attack other nations, and fortify and evacuate their nation's
own land. Warriors have the power they need to fight for their nation,
to prove themselves and earn trust before they are allowed further
abilities that could, in the wrong hands, be used to harm the nation.
•Commander - A Commander has all of the Warrior's abilities, as well as being
able to delete map flags, choose which technology to research, and
use their nation's credits to purchase special abilities and technologies.
•Captain - A Captain has all the abilities of a Commander, as well as the
ability to set their nation's research goal, to use their nation's
prize winnings to purchase credits, and to promote or demote lower
ranking members.
•General - Only a nation's Sovereign or Co-Sovereigns can promote a member
to the rank of general. A general can do everything that a captain
can, as well as change the nation's password to join, remove lower
ranking members from the nation, invite other nations to unite with
his nation, and distribute the nation's prize winnings to its members.
•Co-Sovereign - Only a nation's Sovereign can promote a member to the rank of
Co-Sovereign. This should be done very rarely and with the greatest
of care, because an enemy agent who convinces his Sovereign to promote
him to Co-Sovereign would be a terrible danger to a nation. A Co-Sovereign
can do everything that a General can, as well as delete other players'
messages and, most importantly, migrate the nation.
•Sovereign - A nation has only one sovereign, the member who created the nation.
The nation's Sovereign can do everything that a Co-Sovereign can
do. In addition, only a nation's Sovereign can accept or reject
an invitation to unite with another nation.
For information on how to promote or demote members to different ranks,
see the section on the Member Screen, below.
You can view the Member Screen for a member of your nation (including
yourself) by clicking on the entry for that member in the Members
List on the Prizes panel.
If you are viewing the Member Screen for a member with a rank higher
than your own, the screen will provide only the name and rank of
that member. However, if your rank is either Sovereign, General,
or Captain, and you are viewing the Member Screen for a lower ranking
member, you will be able to change that member's rank or remove
them from the nation.
To change a member's rank, select the new rank from the pop-down menu.
When you press "Okay", the pop-up will disappear
and the member's rank will be changed.
To remove a member from the nation, check the checkbox labeled "Remove
this member from this nation." When you press "Okay",
the member will be removed from your nation. They may then go on
to create or join another nation if they so choose. You can only
remove lower ranking members from your nation, with one exception:
any member may remove themselves from their nation. Should a nation's sovereign remove himself from his nation, that nation's next highest ranking member will automatically be promoted to sovereign.
Note that, in order to protect members of nations that unite
with other nations, a nation is charged 100 credits and loses 50
from its countdown to rebirth, if it expels a member who joined
with a uniting nation. This penalty is not incurred if the member
being removed has not played for at least 14 days. Also, the member
may at any time remove himself from the nation, without any penalty
being incurred.
Finally, though a low ranking member can never remove a higher ranking member
from his nation, players are given the option to depose a
higher ranking member if that member has not played in at least
14 days. If one member deposes another, that member gains the rank
of the other and the deposed member is reduced to the rank of warrior.
In this way, even a lowly warrior can rise to be sovereign of his
nation, should the nation's previous sovereign abandon it.
The
Member screen for a Warrior, as a Sovereign would see it.
The
Member screen for a Sovereign, as a Warrior would see it.
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