Alliance Faction

Alliance Faction is an indicator of an Alliance's favor with either the Luxons or the Kurzicks. It is the sum of the Alliance Faction value of each guild in the alliance. A guild may increase its faction by having its members transfer their individual faction with either the Kurzicks or the Luxons into the Alliance Faction.

Alliances with high faction are given control of outposts or towns in their side's territory and the Alliance with the highest faction is given access to an Elite Mission.

The Alliance Faction of a guild is displayed in the Guild window.

Gaining Alliance Faction
Alliance Faction is the sum of the Kurzick/Luxon Faction of each guild in the alliance. To increase it, individual guilds should have their members faction farm and then transfer their faction (or some of it) to the alliance through the Faction Transfer NPC at the Guild Hall or in the capital cities of House zu Heltzer and Cavalon repectively.

Faction transfers one-to-one. So, 5000 faction transferred to the alliance will increase the Alliance Faction by 5000. However, players can only transfer faction in chunks of 5000.

Updating Alliance Faction

 * The Alliance Faction decays with time at a rate of 10% every 24 hours.
 * Alliace Faction posted on outposts is updated every 3 hours. Updates take place at 1:00 AM, 4:00 AM, 7:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 1:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 10:00 PM GMT.

Controlling Outposts
Outposts on either side are sorted in order of value. When an alliance accumulates enough faction with their respective side, they will take over the lowest outpost in value. As they gain more they will begin to overtake alliances in the higher value outposts pushing them down to the lower value outposts.

Because of the delay in updating Alliance Faction, an alliance will not know if they have overtaken another alliance until the update time. This is sometimes used as a tactic among alliances to surprise their adversaries. If an alliance merges with another high-faction alliance, they can overtake a number of alliances ahead of them and surprise them.

The following is a list of outposts on either side sorted by lowest-to-highest faction value: