Guild Alias

That sounds pretty good, of course its still very likely to get entire alliances to simply revolve around this idea so people research different things and ends up boosting the alliance as a whole. Of course there is a lot more bonuses to killing off single players of an alliance if that happens so i guess it might weight up for it.

I`d like to opt out out of the guild alias. I dont want to share my stuff unless it is with somebody I trust and I alone can decide who I trust. It is already bad enough that all guild member, including enemy spies on 2nd accounts, are able to see through the 'fog of war'

Yeah, choosing who you trust is an important factor. I have been playing many games where i was sold out. I remember my first and last game of tribalwars, i started next to a guy who was always one village ahead of me. Anyways we forged a good personal alliance and buildt ourselves up. I was quite happy playing at that time, but then one faithful day i ended up at war with the second best player in the world, she was good. Altough i got her by faking and nobling her cities left and right, in return she did the same to me. We were more or less equal due to most of her cities being far away i had time to manouver my troops. Then she managed to persuade my PA that other person i was playing and cooperating with to backstab me. He annihilated me in one swoop and took all my villages when i was on the brink of driving her out of the region, he later claimed to be "protecting" me from her. Thats the worst backstab i ever had, altough i guess i was quite happy with him being my ally when he was but i guess he was not the best kind of player to play with. I like to choose who i trust, and this is a good example of people not to trust. Since this game i have been very untrusting of people. Yes trust is important, but having too much is bad. He knew my troop movement and i thought he was busy fighting another guy. Apparently he was just building up nobles to quicknoble my villages and quickly.