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Originally Posted by exblade
many alliances have a heirarchy yes but its not as strict as one would think.
some alliance yes, its hardcore by the book
other alliances theres quite a bit of freedom
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On the other hand, a lot of this "freedom" is very often(not necessarily always) just a byproduct of commands inability to control their members. They would like everything to work through strict hierarchy but lack authority and means required to control all of their members.
In such a situation you can often do a lot of things that are against "the rules" because you know that you will get away with it. Either they never even notice it or then they are just going to complain to you about it. So your actions won't have any real consequences in any case.
It's kind of an "pseudo-freedom". There are rules and you should follow them but in practice they can be ignored(at least to some extent) as no-one is effectively enforcing all of the rules. You could say that it's just an failed attempt to adopt hierarchical command structure. Generally it leads to inefficiency and most likely it's just easier to say that "we have freedom...." than "we are failing on what we are trying to do".