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Facets :: General | Travel (Moongates & Moonstones) | Trammel | Haven | Felucca | Factions | Ilshenar |
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Facets :: Factions :: Factions | Combat | Silver | Towns |
Part 2: Faction Scoring, Combat and Points [06122k]
Combat Related Interactions
Players in the faction system are able to freely aggress enemy faction members. However, faction mates are treated as “innocents” unless other circumstances override that status. As the faction system is designed to operate in conjunction with the other existing player-interaction rule sets that currently exist in Ultima Online, the Faction system will account for the integration of different player-interaction conditions. The conditions for Faction combat interaction are as follows:
- Players cannot be in a party with opposing Faction members.
- The reputation status of a faction player (thief, criminal, murderer, etc) takes precedence over faction status. Example: Although a faction mate cannot ordinarily be freely attacked, a faction mate who is a criminal or murderer CAN be freely attacked.
- The guild war status of a faction player takes precedence over faction status. Example: Although a faction mate cannot ordinarily be freely attacked, a faction mate who is in an enemy guild (guild war) can be freely attacked.
- There are no faction wars on the Trammel facet, however all guild wars still apply.
Faction Scoring and Rank
Faction players are able to gain “kill points” by defeating their faction enemies in battle. In addition, these kill points are used to determine a player’s rank in the faction. The two terms that players need to understand with the Faction point system are “kill points” and “deficit”.
“Kill points” are earned when opposing Faction members successfully kill someone in an opposing Faction. The amount of kill points taken from the victim is 10% of the total kill points on the victim. The examples below illustrate the results from a battle, where the name “Winner” was victorious in the battle and “Victim” was killed by “Winner”.
For example, assume the victim had 100 kill points and the winner of the fight had zero kill points. 10% of this goes to the victor, from the victim. Therefore the victim moves to 90 kill points and the winner of the fight now has 10 kill points. A minimum of 1 kill point is awarded each time a faction player dies, if the victim’s kill point total is 19 or lower.
For non-whole number totals resulting from percentages, the end results are rounded downward if the result is not a whole number.
Example 1: Winner: 85 kill points, Victim: 18 kill points. Result from death of the victim, Winner gets 1 kill point from the victim, moving the winner to 86 kill points. The victim’s kill points reduce to 17.
Example 2: Winner has 50 kill points, victim has 21. Result from the death of the victim, winner gets 10% of the victim’s kill points, rounded down to the nearest whole number. 10% of 21, or 2 kill points. The victim then has 19 kill points, and the winner of the fight has 52 kill points.
When a Faction player reaches zero kill points and is then killed again, they move into a range called “deficit”, where they do not have kill points at that time. Instead they have deficit points.
“Deficit” is the total on a faction player that reflects whether they are below zero kill points or not. The most deficit points any faction member can have are 6. When a Faction member is at 6 deficit points, killing them will not increase their deficit and will result in no kill point gain for the winner. Each time a Faction member dies and they are within deficit, the winner that killed them will get 1 kill point for the kill unless the victim is at 6 deficit.
Example 1: A Faction member with 60 kill points kills another faction member with a deficit of 2. The winner of the battle will get 1 kill point, moving them to 61 kill points. The victim increases their deficit moving to a total 3 deficit.
Example 2: A faction member with a deficit of 3 kills a Faction member with 80 kill points. The victim (with 80 kill points) will lose 10% of their kill points to the winner, or 8 kill points. The winner of the battle moves from a deficit of 3 to having 5 kill points. 3 of the 8 kill points they won were used to get them out of deficit. The remaining 5 kill points the winner earns are added to the kill point total (since this player no longer is within deficit). Now they have zero deficit and 5 kill points. The winner can now be killed 5 times before reaching zero kill points again.
Example 3: A Faction member with 10 kill points kills another faction member with a deficit of 6. No points are exchanged in this example, since the victim is already at 6 deficit (which is the deficit cap). The victim will not gain any more deficit points, and the winner will not gain any kill points. Had the victim been at 5 deficit, the winner would have gained 1 kill point and the victim would have then been moved to 6 deficit.
The following rules also apply to Faction system killing:
- Points are not given to players who kill friendly faction members.
- Player score atrophies at a rate of 10% per day (with a minimum of 1 point) at approximately 10am local shard time. This atrophy ONLY affects characters with at least 10 kill points. This will occur whether the character is logged in or not.
- It is impossible for the kill deficit value to exceed 6 points.
- It is impossible to have non-zero values for both kill points and kill deficit.
Atrophy works on a 10 day cycle:
Day 1: Players with 90 killpoints or more lose 1 killpoint
Day 2: Players with 80 killpoints or more lose 1 killpoint
Day 3: Players with 70 killpoints or more lose 1 killpoint
Day 4: Players with 60 killpoints or more lose 1 killpoint
Day 5: Players with 50 killpoints or more lose 1 killpoint
Day 4: Players with 40 killpoints or more lose 1 killpoint
Day 3: Players with 30 killpoints or more lose 1 killpoint
Day 2: Players with 20 killpoints or more lose 1 killpoint
Day 1: Players with 10 killpoints or more lose 1 killpoint
Point transfer: Once a day players can transfer a set amount of kill points. The requirements are that both parties are members of the same faction, and that the one who is giving the points must have at least 10 kill points. Once transferred, player A (giver) loses 5 points and player B (receiver) gets 4 points (1 point is lost in the trade).
Titles: Once per day, all faction player scores are recalculated in order to assign faction rank. Titles vary within each faction as described below.
| Rank | Score | Minax | Council of Mages | True Britannians | Shadowlords |
| 1 | Below 20% | Defiler | Mystic | Defender | Servant |
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| 2 | 20% – 39% | Defiler | Mystic | Defender | Servant |
| 3 | 40% – 49% | Defiler | Mystic | Defender | Servant |
| 4 | 50% – 59% | Executioner | Diviner | Sentinel | Keeper of Lies |
| 5 | 60% – 69% | Executioner | Diviner | Sentinel | Keeper of Lies |
| 6 | 70% – 79% | Executioner | Diviner | Sentinel | Keeper of Lies |
| 7 | 80% – 89% | Warlord | Luminary | Crusader | Bringer of Sorrow |
| 8 | 90% – 94% | Warlord | Luminary | Crusader | Bringer of Sorrow |
| 9 | 95% – 99% | Dread Knight | Archon of Principle | Knight of Virtue | Agent of Evil |
| 10 | 99.1% – 100% | Avenger of Mondain | Inquisitor of the Council | Knight of the Codex | Purveyor of Darkness |
Death at the Hands of a Faction Enemy
In order to add more permanence to the results of faction battles, and add meaning to death in combat without inflicting further economic damage upon the deceased, faction players are subject to a temporary skill loss penalty of 33% when slain by a faction opponent. As described in the time-based operations chart, this penalty lasts 20 minutes. This penalty is also applied if a faction character commits “suicide”.
This penalty is not applied when a faction player is killed by a non-faction player, faction mate, or non-enemy faction monster.
Looting Interactions
As a result of the combat-oriented nature of the faction system, many cases will arise in which players have the opportunity to loot the corpses of the fallen. As these rules must also be integrated with the currently existing player interaction rules, the rule set described below defines the complete listing of possible looting interactions.
Looting Rules:
- Players will not be able to loot each other through the faction system at all while in Trammel. The only possible looting of faction members within Trammel will occur through other systems such as guild war status, not because of Faction status itself.
- Players cannot be in a party together while in opposing factions.
- The reputation status of a faction player (thief, criminal, murderer, etc) takes precedence over faction status. Example: Although a fellow faction member cannot ordinarily be freely looted, a fellow faction member who is a criminal or murderer CAN be freely looted.
- The guild war status of a faction player takes precedence over faction status. Example: A faction member in an opposing guild can be freely looted as per the standard guild war looting rules.
- In order to remain consistent with other consensual pvp systems (such as guildwar) and in order to prevent “blue looting” exploits, players are unable to freely loot fallen faction opponents unless they dealt lawful damage to the fallen player. Note that “freely looting” means looting without criminal flagging.
In order to provide more interaction with the Faction system and the surrounding environments within Britannia, a variety of monsters in the Felucca lands will gain factional properties. These factional properties will cause the monsters to be non-aggressive towards players of the same faction, and have a faction credit value to players of opposing factions.
- The Faction Monsters are:
- Minax: Ogre Lords
- Council of Mages: Wisps
- True Britannian: Silver Serpents
- Shadowlords: Daemons
- Faction monsters only spawn on the Felucca facet. Daemons, wisps, ogre lords and silver serpents will spawn as normal on both facets. They will appear normal and function as they have before to those players not in Factions.
- On the Felucca facet, the monsters associated with Factions will appear and behave somewhat different only to Faction members. Faction associated monsters will highlight orange (using the cursor) to opposing Faction members and be aggressive. They will highlight blue and be non-aggressive to members within their associated Faction. Example: Ogre Lords will highlight orange and be aggressive to the Shadowlords faction, while appearing as blue and be non-aggressive to the Minax Faction.
- Aggression toward a friendly monster will cause the monster to attack the aggressor.
- [Added today] Enemy Faction-allied monsters provide silver to their killer.
- [Removed today] Faction players may attack friendly (associated faction) monsters with criminal consequences.
As described in the combat interactions section, friendly faction members are treated as innocent in every way (barring other circumstances). As a result, killing an innocent friendly faction member is treated as a murder under the reputation system.
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