Factions

Summary

View current Faction information on the forums. Factions on Outlands is a persistent PvP system of conflict between four separate factions:

Factions
The Andarian Legion	Golden Banner of Cambria	The Prevalian Order	The Terran Rebellion

Factions Menu

• Players must be in a Guild to participate in Factions
• Players can access the Factions Menu of the Guild Menu by clicking on the Factions Tab
• Players can type [Faction to immediately jump to the Factions Menu of the Guild Menu

Note: During the first 30 Days the Factions system has gone live, players may Join/Leave Guilds at most once every 5 minutes, rather than the standard delay of once per hour (this is to give players more flexibility during the factions launch window to reorganize themselves into potential Faction-specific guilds)

Joining a Faction

• Each individual Guild decides optionally whether they will be aligned with one of four different Factions
• Any Officer or Guildmaster of a guild can change the Faction of their guild on the page 3 of the Factions Menu by clicking the Join button next to the desired Faction
• Guilds can only Join or Leave any Faction at most once every 7 days
• If a guild is aligned with a Faction, all members of the guild will see any text associated with their Faction displayed in Green text, and other Factions displayed in Orange text
• Guilds can leave a Faction by clicking the Leave button next to their Faction on page 3 of the Factions Menu

Note: During the first 30 Days the Factions system has gone live, Guilds may instead change Factions at most once every 24 Hours (this is to give guilds a chance to learn the system and "try out" different relationships with other guilds/factions)

Allied Guilds

• Players cannot join a Faction if any of their Allied Guilds are currently aligned to a different faction
• Players will be notified which Allied Guilds belong to different factions and when prevented from joining a faction

Last Week Tally

• At the end of each week, a "Last Week Tally" will be calculated for each Faction based on how well it performed during the week in regards to Waypost and Flag Control, and each Faction will be ranked from 1st through 4th place based on that rating
• Guilds will not be allowed to join the Faction that has the 1st place ranking for "Last Week Tally" (i.e. which Faction was the strongest during the previous week)

Participate in Factions

• If a Guild has aligned themselves with a Faction, each individual player in that guild who wants to participate in Faction activity MUST have "Participate in Factions" enabled on the page 1 of the Faction Menu
• Players can only change their "Participate in Factions" setting at most once every 24 hours
• Note: During the first 30 Days the Factions system has gone live, Players may instead change their "Participate in Factions" setting at most once every 2 Hours (this is to give players a chance to learn the system and "try out" different faction mechanics)

Players cannot change this setting:

• While Flagged in PvP
• While inside a Faction Castle
• While within 50 tiles of a Faction Flag
• While within 50 tiles of a Faction Waypost

Players who are in a guild that has a Faction alignment, but they have Participate in Factions setting disabled, will:

• Not display as Orange to other factions
• Not be able to enter Faction Castles
• Not be able engage in any Faction Activity
• Will not display a Faction Tag for their overhead name

Faction Restrictions

• Players are restricted in they can only have "Participate in Factions" enabled for a single Faction across their IP/All Accounts
• If a player ever attempts to enable "Participate in Factions" where it would result in them having characters in two different Factions on their IP/Accounts, it will prevent the player from doing so
• If a Guild changes their Faction, it will audit all players in the guild and any player who now is in two different Factions on their IP/Accounts will have the "Participate in Factions" setting disabled for all their characters (forcing them to pick a new, single faction)
• If a player is offline when they have their "Participate in Factions" setting disabled by this mechanic, they will receive an overhead message informing them of this the next time they log in

Faction Flagging

Criminals and Murderers

• Faction Players who are Murderers will always flag as RED to other Faction players
• Faction Players who are currently Criminal flagged will always flag as GREY to other Faction players
• Murderer and Criminal Flagging will always take priority over any Faction Flagging, as players must always be aware that performing Beneficial Actions (such as Healing/Curing) on these players will be result in them committing Criminal Action

Ships

• Players on board Ships are NOT considered Faction Participants
• Players on board Ships will NOT adopt any Faction Flagging nor will they count towards Faction Kills

PvP Events and Special Events

• Players who are participating in PvP events (such as Town Struggles, Corpse Creek Contests, Dungeon Flashpoints, or Stygian Rifts) or any special events (such as Strangelands, Stalag Grotto, Winterlands, etc) are NOT considered Faction Participants while they are inside the designated event zone
• Players participating in these events will NOT adopt any Faction Flagging nor will they count towards Faction Kills

Opposing Factions

• Players who are in a Faction, and have Participate in Factions enabled, will by default flag as Orange to players in opposing Factions
• Players will be able to freely attack players from opposing Factions at most locations, except for the PvP Events and Special Events described earlier

Same Faction

• Players who are in the same Faction, and have Participate in Factions enabled, will by default flag as GREEN to each other

Exceptions:

• Players who are in the same Faction, but are in different Guilds that are at WAR with each other, will flag as ORANGE to each other

Parties

• If two players are in the same Party, and the target player has "Flag Green to Party" enabled, they will display as GREEN even if they belong to opposing Factions

Harmful Actions in Factions

• Players will NOT be able to do Harmful actions to other players in the same Faction, UNLESS any of the following are true:
• Both players belong to the same Guild
• Both players belong to the same Party and the target player has "Flag as Green to Party" toggled on
• The players belong to different Guilds that are currently at WAR with each other

Beneficial Actions

• If a player is NOT an active participant in Factions performs a Beneficial Action onto a Player or Follower who IS an active Participant in Factions, they will become flagged as attackable by all other Factions for 2 minutes

Fendrake is not in a Faction and heals Serathi who is in a Faction; Fendrake temporarily flags as attackable by the 3 other factions Serathi is not in

Fendrake now becomes attackable by Luthius, who belongs to a different faction than the healing target

Exceptions:

• This mechanic will not apply during PvP Events or Special Events

Prevent Faction Healing

• Players can use [PreventFactionHealing to toggle whether they are automatically blocked from performing Beneficial Actions on Faction Players while they themselves are NOT an active participant in Factions (since this action would flag them)
• By default [PreventFactionHealing is Enabled for players

Faction Commands and Settings

The Commands and Settings menu has a number of Faction-specific toggleable options and hotkeys for players, that can be accessed by using Paperdoll -> Help -> Commands -> Faction

Area of Effect (AoE) Spells in Factions

Indirect Fire

• Any Players or Followers hit by a Player-Casted Area of Effect (AoE) Spell such as Meteor Swarm, Chain Lightning, Earthquake where the caster does NOT have a Line-of-Sight (LOS) towards them, those players/followers will be considered to be taking "Indirect Fire"
• Their Damage from the Indirect Fire spell will be reduced by 50%
• The Indirect Fire damage reduction does not apply on Ships
• For each Friendly Faction Player in the spell's radius that the caster cannot harm, there will be a cumulative 20% Damage Penalty applied to the spell towards all targets hit (up to a maximum of 80% Penalty)

Faction

A Faction Player casting an AoE Spell will only hit other Faction players/followers (no blue targets) if any of the following are true:

• The Caster is within 50 tiles of a Waypost
• The Caster is within 50 tiles of a Faction Flag
• The Caster is within 50 tiles of a Faction Door (i.e. the nearby exterior of a Faction Castle)
• The Caster is inside of a Faction Castle
• The Caster is inside of a Faction Dungeon

PvP Event Participants

• As a reminder, players who are actively participating in a Town Struggle, Dungeon Flashpoint, or Corpse Creek Contest event are NOT considered Faction players while within those respective event areas

Friendly Faction Players

• The existing mechanic will still apply where any "Friendly" Players of the caster's same Faction existing within the AoE spell target radius will reduce the damage of the spell

Player Faction Score

• Each player participating in Factions will have a weekly Faction Score that increases when they perform various faction-based activities
• Each player's Faction Score resets to 0 at the start of each week during Tabula Rasa (explained later)
• Players can view details of their Faction Score (Current Week, Last Week, and Seasonal) as well as their Last Week Silver Earned on Page 1 of the Faction Menu

Faction Castles

• Each faction has an associated Faction Castle located in their respective town
• Players must be a Faction Participant in order to enter any Faction Castle
• Players cannot recall/gate/hike into a Faction Castle region unless they are a member of that specific Faction

Wayposts

• Wayposts are control zones that exist in the overworld that represent points of conflict between two different factions

• There are 18 total Wayposts in the game world
• Wayposts are positioned in the overworld so they form a "Chain" of 3 Wayposts on a path between every "pairing" of Factions
• For instance, there are 3 Wayposts that form a chain between Terran and Cambria, there are 3 Wayposts that form a chain between Cambria and Prevalia, and so on

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