Gaining Faction Rank By Killing Faction Monsters??

[Vertex]

I created several new PvP characters to join Factions.

One of the first things I needed was lots of silver to buy some Faction Artifacts.

I added in my PvM sampire under Minax, while I went off to farm Daemons [SL].


I distinctly checked my Faction Rank after I joined Minax on this PvM sampire -- Rank 1, showscore: 0.


After a few days of farming Daemons, I earned around 30k silver -- that's 1,000 daemons killed.


I never bumped into any opposing faction members, and my showscore is still 0 (as expected).

HOWEVER, my Faction Rank is 8 now -- no player kills, nothing. Just solid monster bashing.


Completely unexpected -- any ideas what happened?

 

[wee papa smurf]

The current point system is broken, if your on a shard and in a faction where theres not alot of people on then you will get rank 10 no probs without having to kill anyone, the new system will fix all these problems lol

 

[Vertex]

The current point system is broken, if your on a shard and in a faction where theres not alot of people on then you will get rank 10 no probs without having to kill anyone, the new system will fix all these problems lol

I understand this, however I mentioned that I did a check right after I joined the Faction -- and I was only Rank 1.


I also did a "control" test:

I added a second character to the Faction -- that second character did not do anything at all.

I let two days pass, just in case it was an issue of waiting for the Faction points to re-calculate on server-up, etc.


Surely enough, the character that did nothing was still Rank 1, while the character that farmed 1,000 daemons (and killed no players) is Rank 8 still.


Unless the character that I used to farm daemons is bugged, this is evidence that farming faction monsters somehow increases your faction rank.

 

[wee papa smurf]

Probably something to do with the fact that you were actually "active" with your farming of the monsters put your rank up? My thief was rank 10 with -5 kill points for months and months, which probably had something to do with the fact that i was always moving sigs around. But like i say it is broken so its probably pretty unpredictable, best bet is to just find some oj's and lay the smack down for a bit

And you were rank 1 when you first joined because points and rank updates every 24 hours or summit, and you always start as rank 1

 

[Vertex]

And you were rank 1 when you first joined because points and rank updates every 24 hours or summit, and you always start as rank 1

Yes, that is what I suspected, which is why in my second post I wrote how I did a "control test", and I joined a second char into the faction.

I left the second char in the faction for 2 days without killing any players or monsters, (I did login and do other stuff though), and after 2 days, she is still Rank 1.


So something is definitely up.

 

[omgmir]

I'm not sure why it matters when the new factions are on test already.

The old system is going to the grave shortly.