Wing Fighter Legions

**Legions** is a Clan system introduced to Wing Fighter in version 1.7.450, which was release in January of 2023. Although there are hints of various types of activities that Legions can participate in, such as the Planet Wars and Star Scramble events, currently Legion members can only help each other in tug of war, by jointly pulling resources either in friendly tugs or by looting other players.

Legions can have up to 20 members. The player that creates a Legion is designated **Leader**, and can also designate another member as **Vice Leader**. Both Leader and Vice Leader can admit or expel legion members, and set various legion attributes such as the minimum battle power for an applying player. The legion name can only be set once, at the legion's creation.

### Joining a Legion

Players can tap the **Chat** button on the main Battle screen to see a World chat (all players can post), a Legion chat (specific to a player's legion), and a Recruit list. The Recruit list shows all legions that are currently recruiting. The View button next to leach legion's name opens an information screen for that legion which shows the Leader, current number of members, total battle power and list of current members. It also shows whether the legion is set up to require approval (a leader needs to approve). If approval is not required, the player is admitted immediately.

Once a player joins a legion, the Legion chat is enabled, which can be accessed both from the Chat button and also from the Legion tab at the bottom right of the Battle screen (it's called "Hall" there).

### Legion Looting

Up to 4 legion members can pull a resource jointly in tug of war. A player can request help from their legion mates to pull a resource from their own field, or when looting from another player's field. After a pull starts, the player can tap on the resource, then use the **Request** button to invite the legion to join, Once this is done, an invitation appears in the legion's chat that also shows how many legion mates have already joined. Besides the requester, up to 3 other legion members can join, and everyone that participates receives a copy of the resource, if the tug of war is won.

Players can also leave a legion. Once doing so, there is a cool down period of 1 hour before they can join another legion, or 24 hours before they can rejoin the same legion,

### Strategy

Legion members should communicate using the in-game chat or other channels and set a strategy for the legion. An active legion shares a lot of resources, and members are often overeager to help and run out of fuel fast. Therefore, loots for higher level resources should be prioritized. It may also help for a player to announce when they're about to share or loot a high level resource, to make sure there are members available to help.

When a player shares a pull, it's a good idea to first put only one or two fighters on the pull, which allows more time for legion mates to join. Once the sharing meter is full, additional fighters can be added to increase the pull power and reduce the amount of time to win the resource.

### Bugs/Improvements

Although the core functionality of legion play with tug of war is stable, there are several improvements and bugs that have been found by the community:

* Requests to share resources with legion have a time out around 10-15 minutes. After that, the requester has to re-issue the request. There's no good reason for this and requests should stay alive as long as the pull is active.
* After a pull is finished, the request for sharing remains on the chat, and tapping it returns an error message. Such requests should be removed.
* Players can pull offensively and defensively (as part of their legion) on the same resource at the same time. It's not clear what happens with awards in these situations.
* Player names in game don't show their legion affiliation
* The game should produce an app notification when a legion member is requesting help