Proposed AOM/3RT Merger

This page outlines a plan for merging Alliance AOM with Alliance 3RT.

The merge concept is simple - combine all members of AOM with all members of 3RT into an ordered list, sorted from most powerful to least powerful. The most powerful 100 members then become the 3RT members. The least powerful 59 become the members of AOM. In the new merged 3RT alliance, 26 came from AOM, and 74 are original 3RT members.

The 100 most powerful members will create an alliance with a combat power of 84.5M, which will make it the 3rd most powerful alliance [just below #2 at 85.6M]. Combining our least powerful players into AOM would yield a combat power of 9.3M, making it the 17th most powerful alliance.

Merge Mechanism
What merge mechanism should we use to combine our alliances?

We should pursue a "Manual Merge", where AOM's strongest members migrate to 3RT and 3RT's weaker players migrate to AOM. Both alliances survive to host all of our combined 159 members.

Merged Member List
The link below connects to a PDF file of the sorted list, by power, of all AOM and 3RT members. The 100 most powerful members yields an alliance of 84.5M combat power, which is 3rd strongest in the state. Merging the least powerful 59 members of AOM and 3RT into AOM yields an alliance of 9.3M combat power, which is 17th strongest in the state.]

https://www.dropbox.com/preview/AOM_3RT_%20Merger.pdf

Merge Steps
1 The at the time of this writing, the combat power cutoff threshold was 328K. The cutoff threshold is dynamic, rising as member power rises. At the time of the merge, the precise cutoff threshold will need to be determined.
 * 1) Notify all members in both alliances of the merger plan; all member are explicitly instructed to stay where they are until instructed to "quit/join".
 * 2) Set recruitment of 3RT to "Open / System / Base=14 / Power=328K".
 * 3) Set recruitment of Spinoff to "Open / System / Base=10 / Power=20K".
 * 4) All AOM members are pointed to the Merged Member List (above), and instructed that only those members on the list, and above the Cutoff Line are to be accepted into 3RT.
 * 5) At 3RT, rank and file members below the cutoff threshold1 are instructed to quit and join AOM.  All members are repeatedly reminded via both PM and AC to join AOM.  After a grace period [a few days?] the 3RT R5 kicks those members below the threshold who have not yet quit.  With multiple PMs, even those members kicked will have legacy messages instructing them to join AOM.
 * 6) At AOM, rank and file members above the cutoff threshold1 are instructed to quit and join 3RT.  All members are repeatedly reminded via both PM and AC to join 3RT.  With a target membership of only 59, there is no need to kick any members from AOM - there will be room for anyone who stays.
 * 7) During the transition, we will lose members, due most likely to language issues and inactive players.  So there will be need to be adjustments.  After things have settled [several days], the highest power members in the new merged AOM will be promoted back into 3RT to fill out our 100 members.

Outstanding Issues
None.