Template:Affiliations
An affiliation tree determines how entities are flagged against other entities within its hierarchy.[1][2][3]
- Corrupted players can be attacked (or killed) regardless of other affiliations. This is something that will be tested during Alpha-2.[1]
- Node citizenship.[1][2][3]
- Alliances.[1][2][3]
- Guilds.[1][2][3]
- Parties.[1][2][3]
- Raids.[1][2][3]
- Family.[2]
- Religion.[3]
- Society.[3]
There's node citizenship. There's guild. There's alliance. There's party. There's raid. There's family. All of these types of affiliations have a hierarchy. The highest of which is your node affiliation: So your citizenship is your greatest superceding relationship, which means if you were a part of a guild and the guild has multiple nodes in which its members are citizens of, if there was a war between two of those nodes, the members of those nodes would be first and foremost citizens who defend that node, even against their own guild members.[2] – Steven Sharif
All of these things have some hierarchy; and within that hierarchy there's the ability to participate within certain systems. So for example, if you have a node that has fallen under your vassal state and you're a citizen of the parent node, then you could participate in a siege against the vassal node but if you're a citizen of the vassal node you could not participate as an attacker against the parent node; so there's a hierarchy, unless you were to renounce your citizenship.[3] – Steven Sharif