"Based on stuff on alla and elsewhere, the king should give roughly +200 points of faction. The comments that say it only take 12-15 kills to go from kos to friendly or ally are from 2002"
^This is clear...king should give 200 points of faction....after 11 faction hits of 200...2200 faction+ 350 or so from MM...that gives 2550 faction.....by multiple sources of faction (
http://samanna.net/gen.info/faction.shtml) the max amount of faction it should take to get from max kos to dubious is 2300 faction.
Therefore it is reasonable to believe that by the above numbers the king is giving the post Velious faction hit rather than the classic.