There's a hell of a lot to unpack here, and a lot of changes to moving parts that affect other moving parts around them that are also simultaneously being changed. I don't think we'll know how it really all fits until we spend a lot of time playing with it ourselves.
Right now, there's only one "member" level rank for alliances. It'd be nice if we had other presets available- "trainee", "veteran", etc. They don't need to have completely different permissions sets from "member"; they just need to have the different name plates. I'm sure this has been requested before, but I'm bringing it up again.
If you actually knew how to fight a multi-round war, you'd know that missing out on 2 days of beige timer represents your doom when you leave safety, not a forum clap back.
Remove burrito.
Personally, I have done no more than blockade EM, Nokia, and the alliances that still decide to keep both around, but you've blockaded me back and called me a whiner. If you've got a problem with even that small of a gesture, it's hard to view you as a rational voice.
I was wondering about that huge chunk of identical nations. Another point of interest is that they were exclusively on South America / Australia / Africa - almost all of them were on identical city builds, and those 3 continents let them keep bauxite in all of them.