Factions are dead at the moment, I made few differend kind of solutions which you can combine how you want.

1. Profits from faction vendors are directed to players of that faction. The amount of gold you get, depends on how many faction kills you got that week. So all kill that faction has done = 100%, and your kills/all kills = % you get.

2. Faction horses would give same barding as armored swampys give now.

3. Making being PK (red) harder then it is at the moment. I have red, and it's way easier to be red that being in faction. If there was some real punishment for being red, people would join factions to get their PvP action, and to be able to raid other factions Champ spawns and so on.

At the moment there is faction loss, but no loss for Red players. Turn this around --> Remove faction loss, and bring that same loss factions have now to red players. (Faction loss=when you die, your skills/stats are lowered 20 % for 20 mins). Or keep faction loss but make Red loss last 2-3x as long as faction loss.

Really, being Red is way too easy at the moment compared to being factioneer.

4. Im not sure about this but.. here goes:
At the moment there's very few new players coming to PvP action. I think one reason is that making a suit good enough to be able to fight against decend players is very expensive. Yes, it's not only about the suit, and skill matters a lot, but with crappy suit your dead.

When players joins faction, he/she can choose from differend kind of decend (good but not Uber) PvP suits (Faction suits), there would be differend kind of suits from which you can choose one that fits to your template (mage, dexer, etc.) This would bring "poor" players to PvP ground, and I think it would be great. Im getting tired of fighting same people again, again, again and again . This suit would be only wearable when in faction, and if player leaves faction he loses that suit.

5. Faction footwear/earrings. Footwear and earrings with mods, available only for factioneers with a lot of faction points.

Im not saying that all of these must happen, but these are differend kind of proposals.

Please post your opinion about this, and if you have better ideas how to promote factions please post it.

You can find this Thread at Stratics Ideas Den also, please Vote there too.

http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/u...o=&fpart=&vc=1

The thing is.. they wont give reds penalties again.. since everyone wanted to get rid of that before.. I including which i now see was a damn big mistake.. PKing should be hard.. Should be a risk.. So i guess the playerbase ***** that one up. Not EA.

Bring O/C back.... Set a speedlimit on runspeed. Ping shouldnt matter in a game.. Fix lag issues.. a 2d game shouldnt lag on 3ghz 1gb ram, 256ram... But it does in some areas.
Remove blaze/Ice colors.. specially the ML hairdyes.