Factions

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• Britain (located south of the mage shop on the east side of Britain)
• Magincia (located southwest of the tavern)
• Minoc (located south of the tavern)
• Moonglow (located east of the provisioner’s shop)
• Skara Brae (located north of the provisioner’s shop)
• Trinsic (located east of the meeting hall)
• Yew (located west of the healer)
• Delucia (located west of the south entrance)

• Each of the above towns has a town pedestal.
• Each town has an associated town sigil (created on town pedestal).
• A faction member with a Stealing skill of at least 80 may steal the town sigil. The sigil must be transported to a stronghold tile within one hour (otherwise it returns to it’s home pedestal location).
• The sigil may be corrupted at a Faction stronghold by placing it on that Faction’s stronghold tile. The sigil must remain on that stronghold tile for at least 24 hours. There is a grace period of 15 minutes during which if the sigil is moved from the tile, it may be restored to the stronghold tile without restarting its corruption time.
• After being corrupted, the sigil must be returned to its town pedestal in orde to capture the town. The faction has one hour to return the sigil to a town, or it returns to it’s last stronghold tile location (still corrupted). The sigil will remain on the last stronghold tile or town pedestal until the steal/move process is performed on it again, at which time the player or players moving the sigil have the required times to achieve their objectives or the sigil will return automatically to the stronghold tile or pedestal where it was last located.
• A faction controlled town falls under the control of the faction for a minimum period of three days [Changed today – was seven days].
• After a town becomes subject to re-conquest, other factions may steal the sigil and attempt to corrupt it.

• A player must have at least 80 stealing skill to “steal” a sigil from its town pedestal or a stronghold tile.
• The stealing player must be in a faction.
• A sigil is “dropped” or “given” by double-clicking the sigil, then targeting. A sigil cannot be moved by the normal means of dragging an item.
• A player with a town sigil is hued purple, as well as all equipped items on that player.
• A player with a town sigil cannot:
• Recall
• Gate
• Use a moonstone
• Teleport
• Cast Incognito
• Cast Polymorph
• Use a disguise kit
• Place sigil in a container on the ground
• “Give” the sigil to an enemy faction player
• “Give” the sigil to someone not in their own faction
• If a player with a town sigil logs out or their character for any reason leaves Ultima Online, the sigil returns to its home location.

• Election Pending
• The election pending phase lasts five days, and during this phase players cannot run for office or vote for candidates.
• Campaigning
• This phase lasts 1 day, and is the phase where players choose to run for office.
• Players must be of Faction rank 6 or higher to run for office.
• Up to ten candidate slots are filled on a first come, first served basis.
• Players that quit Factions before this phase ends are removed from the election list immediately.
• If there are no candidates on the list at the end of this phase, the Campaigning phase repeats for an additional day.
• If there is only one candidate, the voting phase is skipped and that one candidate wins by default.
• Voting phase
• This phase lasts 3 days.
• All members of the Faction can cast one vote for one candidate on the list.
• Each candidate’s name and current vote total are displayed to every Faction member.
• If there are ties in the voting, the candidate first on the list wins.

• Campaigning takes place once per week, starting 6 days after the Faction system begins on the shard, and lasts for 24 hours.
• During campaigning, up to 10 players with a rank of 6 through 10 are able to run for public office if they so choose. The first 10 eligible Faction members that choose to participate in running for the Faction Commander position are allowed to do so. Any subsequent Faction members are denied candidacy during that election cycle, even if they are eligible.
• After 24 hours of campaigning, the voting process begins. Faction members have 24 hours to vote for a candidate. Faction members that wish to vote must use the faction stone, select the “vote” option, and select their candidate choice.
• Players can only vote once and cannot change their vote after submission.
• The player with the largest vote total after the 24 hour voting process is over becomes the new Faction Commander.

• The Faction Commander is able to appoint or remove the sheriff and finance minister for each town that a faction controls. The commander accesses these functions by using the appropriate townstone within the controlled town.
• The Faction Commander determines the degree of faction “tithes”. The tithing rate can be set anywhere from 0 to 100% in increments of 10%. The commander accesses this function by using the Faction stone.
• The Faction Commander determines the disbursement of the faction’s treasury to cities under the control of the faction.
• Once every hour the commander may send a global message to all online faction members in his faction. This is done by saying “message faction” – a prompt will appear asking them what they want to send as a message. The commander types in the text and hits enter – it is sent to all online faction mates.

• The Faction Commander may access the townstone of a captured city in order to hire the sheriff (described above).
• The commander may not select himself to be a Sheriff.
• The commander must select a player from within the same faction to be a Sheriff.
• The town sheriff is able to perform their official duties by speaking out loud “I am sheriff”.

• Each faction may purchase 4 different guard types.
• 2 generic types (Henchman, Mercenary)
• 2 specific types (described below)
• A maximum of 10 of each guard type may be in service at a time in one city.
• [Removed today] The Faction Sheriff may give the Faction Guards orders. The orders are “Ignore”, “Warn”, and “Attack”. A Faction Sheriff can give these orders selectively for the other three Factions, or for citizens (players). However, Faction Guards cannot be set to attack citizens (players) that are not within the faction system. Citizens can be ignored by or warned by Faction Guards, with a warning being a verbal display from the Faction Guard stating the current nature of the occupied town. The Sheriff can set the Faction Guards to selectively ignore, warn, or attack members of other factions. For example, Faction Guards under the control of the True Britannian Faction may be set to ignore the Council of Mages Faction, and attack the Shadowlords Faction, and warn the Minax Faction.

• The Faction Commander may access the townstone of a captured city in order to hire the finance minister.
• The commander may not select himself to be a Finance Minister.
• The Commander must select a player from within the same faction to be a Finance Minister.
• The Finance Minister is able to access the town finance options by speaking out loud “I wish to access the city treasury”.

• The Finance Minister may view the city treasury, purchase faction shopkeepers, or set the town’s taxation rate. The taxation rate can be set from 1/3 normal price to 3x normal price in increments of thirds.
• In a town that has a taxation rate other then 0 (normal price), the NPC vendor prices will reflect the increased or decreased prices.
• In addition to setting the taxation rate of the NPC vendors, the Finance Minister is able to purchase additional NPC vendors for the town. These vendors include Horse Breeders (who sell “war horses”), reagent vendors, ore vendors, and lumber vendors.