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This topic will serve as a general information area for the upcoming factions event I am trying to put together. Check back frequently for updates.

Summary
Basically every guild possible will join Atlantic factions for one week and fight like there is no tomorrow.

What is Factions
In basic terms, Factions is split into 4 separate groups that all compete to control Felucca towns. You can choose any group to fight for. They are the True Britannias, Minax, Shadowlords and Council of Mages. Faction fighting only takes place on the Felucca facet. All opposing faction members are orange to you and you can gain points for killing them.

Much more information will be available soon on UOGuide. The current faction information on UO.com is horribly out of date in some cases so don't rely on it.

Date
Planned for some time in mid to late March.

Issues
There are a couple issues with the event which the UO developers will have to resolve. I think that if enough participation occurs then they will make the following changes.

• One Character Rule - Currently you are only allowed one character in factions per shard. This rule absolutely has to be lifted in order for this event to proceed as planned. I am going to make a case where the rule is changed to you can only join one faction per shard but have any amount of characters in it.
• Faction Member Balancer - In order to prevent one faction from outgrowing the others there is a mechanism in place that will stop people from joining. So if you say go to join with ~600 people in your guild (which HOT has) it won't let you. I am also requesting that this balancer be removed.
• Beneficial Acts in Trammel - Currently faction players can not have beneficially acts such as healing and resurrection performed on them by non-faction players in Trammel facets. This will mostly be a barrier for guilds who frequent Trammel but may want to join in with some of the fighting. If any guild has an issue with this let me know and I will bring it up with the developers. Otherwise I will focus on the first two changes only.

PVP Tournament
Why just hold a single event when it could be several? I'm going to look into organizing a PVP tournament, probably to be held very shortly after the Factions event. There would be big prizes. I might try and get Vine Cord Sandles for the winner. It will probably be the biggest tournament since the Tournament of Champions held 5+ years ago by OSI.

Guilds Confirmed Participating

• Death-in-Excess [DiE] - Commander Armstrong & Friends (from Europa)
• Divide Et Impera [DEI] - 90 members
• Freedom by Anarchy [SIAP] - 41 members
• HOT Guild [HOT] - 269 members
• The 4 Horsemen Of the Apocolypse [T4H] - 155 members*
• The Animals of the Barn [COW*] - 52 members
• The Infernal Covenant of the Damned [I-C] - ~27 members (not on Atlantic yet)
• Very Important Players [VIP] - ~25 members (not on Atlantic yet)

* [beneficial acts in Trammel must be fixed]

If your guild wants to confirm their participation in this event either private message or ICQ me.

Volunteer Help
This event is going to be too large for just myself to handle. I am looking for dependable volunteers to handle the following tasks.

• Factions Articles on UOGuide - There needs to be an extensive and update to date resource for people to learn about factions. Currently the best place to put such a guide would be on UOGuide.com. Anyone can add/edit pages on UOGuide. To get started see the Factions page.
• PVP Tournament Manager - This person will be responsible for putting together the rules, brackets, gathering a list of participants, advertising the tournament, etc. This will require a lot of work and it would be a good thing if this person had previous tournament experience. Please PM or ICQ me if you want to be the tournament manager.

If you have any ideas for additional events to be held before, during or after the factions event either reply to this topic, PM or ICQ me.

Spreading Word of the Event
I have setup a redirect at http://www.hot-guild.com/faction which will point to this topic. So if you want to give out information to people on ICQ or in-game all you have to do is tell them to visit http://www.hot-guild.com/faction.

Former UO Players Interested in Participating
If you are a former UO player who has not played within the last 2 or 3 years don't fret! With a little extra effort you can be trained, geared and ready to go. Basic equipment can be provided free of charge. If you want to invest in better equipment it can be done really cheap, as little as $10. More details and guides will be available soon for former players.

Teaser Movie Credit
I just want to make clear that the event teaser movie was created not by me (JC the Builder). The original can be found here. The author has released the source code and given permission for other people to remix it, which is what I have done. I rewrote the story and changed out some images.

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Im sure how will pick a faction that has a base in the guard zone lol.

None of the faction bases are in guard zones. Only the True Britannians currently have a base which the entrance is a guard zone. But the inside is not.

Guard Zones are pointless in factions. You see Vandar anyone in rival factions has a orange tag and you can attack them without murders. The fun part is when they die they go into stat loss for 20 minutes. It is a ton of fun and you guys should participate.

CaptainAhab wrote:Guard Zones are pointless in factions. You see Vandar anyone in rival factions has a orange tag and you can attack them without murders. The fun part is when they die they go into stat loss for 20 minutes. It is a ton of fun and you guys should participate.

Yeah it would be pointless but most of LNR play reds so hot would just show up on none faction blues and try and fight in the guard zone.

i will do it and i will ask some lnr but i dont know if they will join. If not i may just put a rag tag group togather. good idea link i do factions on ls and i love it.

Link wrote:None of the faction bases are in guard zones. Only the True Britannians currently have a base which the entrance is a guard zone. But the inside is not.

TB has a big guard zone as well as COM, and SL has a small guardzone at the entrance you think iv never been in factions before? Im sure i know more about it then you.

VanderNars wrote:TB has a big guard zone as well as COM, and SL has a small guardzone at the entrance you think iv never been in factions before? Im sure i know more about it then you.

Magincia's guard zone is currently off and has been for months since the city was invaded. The Shadowlords base does not and never has a guard zone at the entrance. The closest guard zone is Yew Moongate.

I would like to see a reward system like the library in a two fold sense. One control of certain cities allows you to by specialty items ie using silver or kill points or some type of combo. This would truely encourage everyone to pvp by factions.

I mean make it nice items better then any item you can get currently at the library and zoo. I think that would make it totally worth it to everyone.

It will be difficult enough to get the 2 changes needed to pull off this event. Requesting additional perks is not going to happen. Maybe they will do something nice as a bonus, but asking for it is out of the question.

will hot play all blues and only fight in gz so they can xheal and reds in opposing factions can't?



i was also gonna ask if hot was only gonna put archers in factions, but then i realized if they didn't most of hot couldnt join

As of late I have seen a large number of HOT reds in comparison to blues...Odd I know.

shut up hector

Link wrote:

VanderNars wrote:TB has a big guard zone as well as COM, and SL has a small guardzone at the entrance you think iv never been in factions before? Im sure i know more about it then you.

Magincia's guard zone is currently off and has been for months since the city was invaded. The Shadowlords base does not and never has a guard zone at the entrance. The closest guard zone is Yew Moongate.

I don't go to the trammel invade so maybe you're right about mag, but SL does in fact have a GZ in the front. Its very small but i could take you and show ya if you need proof.

You should go check yourself.

People are idiots Hector. They are color blind.

Ecstasy - VIP wrote:shut up hector

Yes sir =(.

Hey Link.

We had a member let us know about this. I like the idea, sounds fun.

I am going to see if I can drum up some people to come back for this. I am still GM of EB and it is still going strong. We are currently comprised of many UO Atlantic players from the old EB, KB, FT, and many more old UO guilds. We'll see what we can put together. If we can get a sizeable group (which is possible), we will be looking to join the faction with the fewest people.

-Oakbow

I remember you Oakbow. It is great to see you are interested. Keep me apprised of your efforts. It would be great to have a lot of participation from the Killer Bees and Evil Bastages.

Oakbow....blast from the past...

Since I returned to UO I have seen almost no one from the 3 guilds you've mentioned. At least not on their main faction characters.

I was almost always fighting against you guys with my mage Yochi Naman from U/F....we had some very good battles