Faction and PvP

[Arillious]

Originally Posted by God-King Abacab [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Faction worked like this on PvP servers that used teams (TZ, VZ, SZ)

Player 1 is a Woodelf druid leveling in Gfay
Player 2 is a Barbarian Shaman heading to CB

If Player 2 coined Player 1 in Gfay then Player 2 would lose faction with NPC's related to Player 1 so in this case every faction in Felwithe and Kelethin and every NPC worldwide that shared that faction would drop several points.

However if they fought in Crushbone and Player 2 killed Player 1 no faction hit would occur because it was not a home city (home city defined as any zone with guards and or NPC's related to those guards)

Mostly it added a roleplay element to PvP but the faction hits were pretty hefty and could cause issues later on if you're just mindlessly ganking noobs

Thank you for this. This triggered my memory. This is how to worked on VZ.

[lethdar]

It was any mob. Attacking someone who was ally to chardok while kindly would get you facefucked etc. Same for in ToV, or next to a bard / enchanter who faction songed the pod, attacking a cleric near the cleric guild in rivervale, etc etc. It wasn't just limited to guards.

[lethdar]

For sure in ToV in particular as I can remember playing a good team cleric meleeing a some evil melee at the hub. She knew enough not to attack back due to the faction but didn't realize that riposte would eventually get agro on her equally well.

[JayDee]

bringin back some memories from the corner of my mind

[Humerox]

factioning was pretty important back then...cross factioning screwed up a lot of peoples' days iirc.