#1 I am not sure how the Faction Ranks really works now and if someone would like to give a basic break down it would be nice. Yes it was broke but IMHO they went a little overboard fixing it. When you could see a lot of blues sitting at Luna bank all wearing lvl 10 faction items then something was wrong.
Faction ranks now (supposedly) work like this: Every member of the faction is put in order from most points to least points. 10% with the most, lvl 10, next 10% lvl9, etc etc etc. So I am in minax, I am competing against all my faction (guild) members for rank. Oh, and any other point holders that other factions might have in my faction. So yes, before, it was pretty easy to get lvl10 and yes, there were tons of sitters at the bank etc etc. Now, it's very tough to get and pretty impossible to maintain. On Chessy, jrede talks about it... his guild (LD) is the best (unfortunately for us) on the shard and wins most of the fights. Yet, they don't have a single lvl 10 member (this was a week or so ago, but still, when I kill LD guys, I usually get 3-7 points from them, which means they have 30-70 points). You can get 70 kill points from corrupting sigils and owning towns every 3 days (total for the shard, so that might split between the factions). So, every 3 days there is a net gain of 70 kill points per shard (max, it can be less if there is sigil fighting going on). Oh, and when you kill someone in another faction, you get 10% of their kill points added to your total. I guess we should all start targeting the lvl10 dudes. HAHA!!!! Forget tactics, go for points, right... um
#2 It looks like they put the same decay rate on the Virtues, not sure why but they did. Left for almost 4 due to RL needs and lost 2 Knight lvls on my Tamer, Valor and Honor. Went and killed Shadow Wisps (less then 2 hrs) and was at Knight lvl, LOL. I gain Honor as I play UO killing Swoop for items to unravel and it has taken forever to reach just to reach 4th dot of follower. I understand that they raised Virtue gains because of the decay rate but some gain a lot faster than others and if Factions are the same way than how are people ever going to make lvl 10 and maintain that lvl.
I don't think that we're going to have a lot of people maintaining lvl10 for long periods. Some will, but most will be relegated to the middle ranks. I guess that's what was intended in the first place.... I don't really agree, but whatever.
#3 Why is it that anybody needs to contact Jeff via Twitter to get him on this. I am sorry but UO has 2 major forums and he really need to assign some one to read these and report to him and then get back and post on here. Keeping us in the dark is not good for UO if they want it to grow, we are not mushrooms. Also not assigning someone to look at these forums IMHO shows a total lack of caring for the very people that, if it wernt for us, UO would not even be here for him to even have a job.
I thought they did have a guy whose job was reading boards. I know I saw that somewhere. It was a while ago though. I sure hope they do...