I’ve read several posts about wanting more power for the alliance creator, such as being able to kick lazy commanders, or commanders who said they’ll buy a spot, but once they get in, they don’t. No loss for them, as you can’t kick them! I agree with the creator needing more power, but that has been brought up several times already.
As far as promoting a guy, then hoping he’s honest and buys the next spot…here is what I did.
Instead of promoting the guy, I bought the spot, then set up a PayPal and had the new recruit send me the cash equivalent of the HP needed, when the guy paid, I made him commander. This worked very well for my alliance. Just a suggestion that may help people from getting burnt from guys that promise to expand, then do not.
I think this also helped me get a very good group of guys. When you’ve got a guy willing to kick in $10-15 to expand the alliance, there is a pretty good chance he takes the game fairly seriously.