Faction Play: New "HubRep" Ranking System! |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2021 at 13:13 |
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Did you know that you're developing a reputation with the Factions?
Faction Play is pleased to announce a new feature to the Alliance Ranking System -- HubRep. Short for "Hub Reputation," HubRep is a new ranking factor that is tied directly to Faction Play Trading. It will make Alliance Players think twice about where they buy and trade with the Factions. How HubRep Works With Faction Play Trading, every time an Alliance Player purchases goods from a Faction in a Trade Hub, the amount of gold spent is tallied. As Alliances reach certain spending thesholds, that spending increases their Faction rankings. However, the Faction Play Trading system also collects data on where those purchases took place. This is where HubRep comes in. Each Player-led Faction has its own set of modifiers for each for the NPC Faction Trade Hubs in the game. (These modifiers have long been used with the Alliance Capital modifier, which rewards or penalizes Alliances for having their Alliance Capital <200 squares from certain NPC Faction Hubs.) Every time a trade is conducted, the modifier is tallied and averaged for each Faction, becoming an Alliance ranking factior that is added into their total rankings with all of the Factions. Here's an example:
HubRep and Gold In addition to being a ranking factor, HubRep also has an impact on the amount of gold that Alliances spend with Player-led Factions, acting as a boost or reduction. The system works similarly to the current in-game "taxing" system, which adds to the cost of trading goods in certain hubs, depending on the race of the player. With HubRep, each averaged-out ranking factor corresponds to a bonus or reduction in the gold spent with each Faction. While we are not revealing at this time what the exact bonuses or reductions are, players are invited to theorize on how this might be calculated and strategize accordingly. We feel that these two features of HubRep make it an exciting, new feature in the ranking system of Faction Play! Finding New Trade Hubs Part of the reason why we've launched HubRep is to get players to start thinking more about NPC Faction trade hubs -- specifically, how the race and disposition of a trade hub's occupants may interact with the Player-led Factions. To this end, Centrum purposely does not offer any bonus or penalty for trades. If you want to find bonuses with the Factions, you're going to have to frequent the trade hubs of their liking. We have posted all of the NPC Faction Hub modifiers in a new worksheet on the Faction play Alliance Rankings sheet. Access them anytime here. (NOTE: Player-led Factions' modifiers may change over time and without warning. Be sure to check in on these modifiers to stay up-to-date on any changes.) How Many Ranking Factors Are There? A lot! There are now a multitude of different ways to affect and change your Alliance's rankings with the Player-led Factions:
In total, there are 9 different ranking factors that combine to create your Alliance's composite ranking with each Player-led Faction. Have you cracked the code yet on how to get the rankings you want with your local Faction? |
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