hmm weird, others have joined after you so my area is no full. maybe just luck..
After reading the entire game guide, its pretty important to be close to your alliance. It takes a VERY LONG time to travel that kind of distance. And a huge benefit to being in the same alliance controled space is your troops move WAY faster in alliance controlled territory.
There are also aspects of this game where the entire alliance can work together towards the end of game "war of tears". unlike other browser games, there is an end to this, there are "seasons". And the season ends when the first alliance completes the war of tears stuff, i think.
It also makes sending caravans with resources or military aid pretty much impossible.
So if you think your going to be into this game, I would recommend trying to re-create a new account and see if your placed with the rest of us. And if you are you can then delete your first account.
Better to do that now, before you've invested any time. I know in Ikariam many people ended up uprooting there all there towns to move close to alliance mates, it makes a big difference.
I posted a topic in the games support forum about this
http://forums-mightandmagicheroeskingdo ... p?71,29101