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One pitfall I stumbled across when setting up the test case: both allies need to accept the alliance ("allies add") for the alliance levels to have any effect. Them just offering +v +c +s to you does nothing until you offer an alliance (no matter what levels). OK, in a regular game this probably is less relevant than when setting up a minimal test case.

Apparently the alliance has to be confirmed by +v +c +s from both sides. I usually a c my alliances with ~ which did not work out in this case.

Cheers,
Mike