You NEED at least 2 rank 50s to run a legion. If nothing else, to help counter alts.

At rank 50, you've seen how the game works. you know if you like it. You can advise and help others. You've (probably) seen how a current legion is run. all of this helps.

+1 to founders...

Here's another way to look at it:

1 Person in each legion is the founder. They cannot be kicked, and are the only one who can promote leaders/demote leaders or disband a legion.

As for how this relates to me, we are very interested in legions coming in merge, but with all the money we've put into the base (and it grows regularly) we don't want to get legionjacked. This would allow us to maintain control of the legion, and make potential interested legions happy by giving them the leader status they desire (though personally, I don't see why, because in our legion there isn't a difference between leader and officer except leaders can demote leaders and officers and disband the legion)

+1 blindly to the rest...I've been waiting for a thread like this so I could show my support to a founders tier in legions.

Another little thing I'd like to see is "official" sister/sub legions. At the moment, sub legions are isolated from the main group, and they rarely interact. Things like Multi legion bosses that can be shared to official sister legions and passive pacts with them would be nice to see, as well as cross-legion alerts (once a week for an energy cost).

Limit to something like 3 legions "bound" together eg 1 main, 1 sister and 1 sub.