Creating or joining an alliance
The first thing you do on Last Command is create or join an alliance. The signup wizard walks a new R5 leader through naming the alliance, picking a server, and entering an in-game name. Everything else — Desert Storm day and time, branding, expectations — gets configured from Settings once the dashboard is open.
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Three ways to start
- You're the alliance leader (R5) and you want to bring your alliance onto the platform — create a new alliance.
- An officer sent you an invite link — open the link, sign up, you're auto-joined at the rank the link encodes.
- You're tracked as a placeholder already — sign up the normal way and ask an officer to merge your placeholder into your new account; all your history follows.
Creating a new alliance (R5 path)
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Sign up
Open /signup and pick “Create an alliance.” The wizard captures three fields: your alliance name, the in-game server number, and your in-game name. You'll also need a working email to confirm and sign in.
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Land on the dashboard
You're instantly R5 and on the alliance overview. The dashboard is empty until you add data — that's the next 30 minutes of work.
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Configure the basics in Settings
Set the Desert Storm day and time, the server reset hour, your alliance branding, and (optionally) the Discord webhook URL. These settings drive auto-creation of weekly matches, scheduled reminders, and Discord posting.
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Add the first members
Generate an invite link for your officers (R5 only), then bulk-add the rest of the alliance as placeholder members so officer features (Pulse, donations, attendance) start showing data immediately. Members link their own accounts later.
Joining an existing alliance
The cleanest path is via an invite link from an officer. The link encodes the alliance ID and the rank you'll be assigned, so the platform places you correctly the moment you finish signup.
Without an invite link, you can sign up first and then ask an officer to add you (or merge an existing placeholder). The platform doesn't auto-match on name — that would collide on common names like “Storm” — so an officer has to confirm.
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What to do on day one
The single highest-leverage thing you can do as a new R5 is paste in last week's VS rankings and donation rankings. That kicks Officer Pulse into life and the at-risk view starts surfacing the conversations to have. Everything else can be backfilled at your own pace.
- Set up Desert Storm — the centrepiece weekly event for any active alliance.
- Read the Pulse guide — to know what you're looking at once data flows in.
- Bulk-add placeholders — so officer views are populated before members link personal accounts.