Illegal alliances have always been problematic because they can go way too far. Now that there are no regular allies allowed in IC it feels like the game is missing something...

Why not set up a war alliance where 2 smaller families can declare war on a larger family and (by agreement) become regular allies during that time? Also give them a shared forum, separate from the regular family forums... Set it up so the combined NW of the 2 smaller families is not more than 150% of the larger family...

When the combined NW of the 2 allied families is greater than 150% of the family which they have declared on, remove the morale bonus and place a -30% attack bonus on the 2 allied families...

I know several of you will hate this idea, but not everybody can be lucky enough to have a fully active family... Some of us are stuck in families that just get farmed. This would level the playing field and make excessive farming a little bit more dangerous.

I just thought of something else too...

If two families declare war on a single family, the single family should get double the morale bonus regardless of size.