Board Thread:Question and Answer/@comment-25656283-20141217043614/@comment-24088226-20141217154055

The main issue is that there are more players creating alliances than there are 14 members looking to join an alliance. This is partially to do with the way the quest system and Oracle suggest to a player to create an alliance, and partially to do with people liking the idea of being in charge.

Also alliances don't do a whole lot for a player, as most of the features aside from goddess worship can be done by a player solo or through comrades. Because of this, a lot of players just go solo or join a semi inactive alliance and never bother to leave. This view changes though once a person starts thinking about seriously ranking and wants a lot of active traders.