Tips on working with allies:

• You can’t transfer cargo or fuel to cloaked allied ships, regardless of Friendly Codes
• You can “give” a starbase to an ally (via ground assault) with torps, engines, beams, and launchers.  Hulls won’t transfer, though.
• Be brief – long messages take longer to read, and things get missed.
• Use ship and planet IDs when referring to any ship or planet.
• “Unload Freighters” with matching friendly codes, can save a turn when delivering minerals to an allied starbase-planet.
• “gsX” commands occur after movement, and require the receiver to have a ship with a clan on board at that location.
• It is easier for 1 player to command a fleet.  Mixed fleets can be a battle-order nightmare.
• You will get much more benefit from an alliance if both players will commit to a game-long alliance – this allows you to trade ships and resources freely, and allow the race with ship-bonuses (Feds, Lizards, Fascists) to enhance the alliance’s combat capabilities.  This arrangement only works in games where a permanent ally is allowed for the victory condition.
• Coordinate objectives every turn.
• Build forward-placed starbases
• Allow your allies to build one starbase in your territory.