With the new Anniversary event, people are teaming up with each other to fight buffalo's storming our newbie zones. To increase the change of being in a group that lands the killing 1 damage blow, people are forcing their parties into alliances.

Unfortunately, Alliances are a tricky thing on Nasomi. Alliances when dropped or leaders changing out in the can cause either the alliance to screw up your UI or cause an entire zone to reset. Newbies unaccustomed to the risk that leaders in end game alliances drill into everyone's head, will ultimately cause zones to crash

The rules are simple:

NEVER DROP PT IN ALLIANCE OUT OF ZONE!!
NEVER CHANGE PT LEADER IN DIFFERENT ZONES IN ALLIANCES!!

I don't think a single city zone has been up for 24 hours plus, let alone, 6 hours (except Port Bastok, no one likes that zone).