FACTIONS

Description

Factions exist throughout the world of Alyria, and your standing

amongst the varied factions can be important depending on your goals. Faction standing can affect many things, such as:

• Ability to equip/use certain faction-bound pieces of equipment
• Cause faction members to attack you on sight, or possibly
• to assist you
• Give you access to exclusive faction banks
• Give you discounts at exclusive faction stores, or the ability
• to buy from those stores at all using credits from the faction
• bank (some faction-run shops may not accept gold or any other
• form of currency, except as issued as credit from their bank)

Faction Types

• There are many different faction types, which are primarily used for
• classification purposes. These faction types are similar to clan
• types. Current faction types are:

Guild Region Racial

• Towne Class Clan
• Alliance Cartel Coven
• Court Order

Faction Points and Standing Levels

• To increase or decrease in standing with a faction, you will gain
• or lose faction points. When you are first 'noticed' by a faction,
• you start out neutral, with a faction standing of "ambivalent"
• (0 points). As you gain faction points, your standing level will
• change. Faction levels range from feared to legendary, and
• points range from -27,500 to 27,500.
• Faction standing levels are:
• Legendary 22,500 to 27,499 faction points
• Esteemed 17,500 to 22,499 faction points
• Distinguished 12,500 to 17,499 faction points
• Liked 7,500 to 12,499 faction points
• Appreciated 2,500 to 7,499 faction points
• Ambivalent -2,500 to 2,499 faction points
• Apprehensive -7,500 to -2,499 faction points
• Disliked -12,500 to -7,499 faction points
• Disgraced -17,500 to -12,499 faction points
• Despised -22,500 to -17,499 faction points
• Feared -27,500 to -22,499 faction points
• The FACTION command displays a list of factions and your current
• standing with each one.

Gaining and Losing Faction Points

• You can gain or lose points with particular factions via the
• following actions:
• Completing certain quests
• Firing upon and sinking faction ships
• Slaying faction NPCs
• Additionally, some factions have restrictions as to who can gain
• points with them (such as specific race-bound factions).

Opposing Factions

• Many factions will have goals opposing other factions, and so helping one
• will necessarily disadvantage the other. Some relationships will involve
• many factions all opposed to one another; gaining favor with one will
• result in losing equal favor with another, or all of the others equally,
• as appropriate, and vice versa.

Faction Banks

• Some factions have their own banks. These banks can be used by
• faction members in shops associated with that faction. For example,
• the Alyrian Bazaar, located near New Rigel, is run by the Alyrian
• Merchant's Association, a well known trading faction. You can
• obtain vouchers that, when used, give you a certain amount of
• credit in the Alyrian Merchant Association's bank, which can then
• be used to buy goods from the Alyrian Bazaar.