Hello again, I have posted this in the help section before now. But thought as tis is a serious bug that I should transfer it here.

Okay, here's the problem.

I am in an alliance. It is not my alliance, it was created by someone else who is currently listed as the founder. In the past, he has transffered the alliance to me before going to v mode, I then became the "founder". Fair enough, I could change things, admit, kick players etc. I could change the levels of the different players, control what they could do, what they could see. In effect, manage the alliance with full privileges, I was effectively the founder.

Fair enough, he came back after a long time away, it was his alliance, so I transffered the alliance back to this player. He said is wasn't necessary but I felt that it was his "baby", he was the creator and fair's fair, I passed it back to him.

So, here's the problem now. He has now gone to v mode again. He created a "rank" for me which effectively gave me all the rights, access and so on that a founder of an alliance would have, but without actually transferring the alliance to me. This has worked fine up to a point. The problem is that now I find that I might myself need to go to v mode, only briefly but nonetheless, I might be away.

With this in mind, I have gone in to the alliance page, gone to manage alliance option. Then with two or three of the players, trusted lieutenants, I have tried to up their collective clearances in the alliance to match mine and the founder. This has not worked. What has now happened is that by trying to do this it has taken away the function from us all to manage the alliance!!!!! So, rather than having anybody that can manage the alliance we now don't have anybody. What can be done in this instance?

If the original owner does not come back, we can do nothing ever again. This alliance, Vashta Nerada has the most successful history of any alliance in the history of Zorg Empire Standard Server. But now we can't even kick somebody or change what they can see, do, even down to sending circular messages!!!!

Any thoughts?

Since the alliance is pretty old, it could have been affected by some old bug which resulted in some misconfiguration at the ranks system.

If anyone else ever runs into a similar issue, please email us directly.

Thank you for all of your help!!

Much appreciated.