Easy, now that faction fights are in primarily imbued armor the requirement to grind silver to get the level 10 artys is gone for factions, making it far faster to re-equip. While not expensive in the least in comparison to similar items non-faction it was a horiffic GRIND keeping enough silver to buy rank 10 items. Aside from that non-faction people are actually fighting again instead of running 100% of the time....I was getting kidna sick of all the stealth tamers tbh... Come try it out though...I mean...i'm not kidding, pvp on the shard easily doubled in the past few weeks....it's actually gotten quite bloody, if faction fights on your shard are dying because of crybabys not getting free gear you're welcome to join us over here.
If you don't believe me come over here, build a character, and try it out. I'm done though, no more replies here as it's obvious whatever I say will be dismissed offhand as being "false" without even logging in and checking.
I am not trying to say that your shard have this scene isn't correct. Its an exception. Maybe few more shards are the same as yours which have this wierd attitude. But thinking as the majority and normal situation, the scenrio of Pub 75 comes down to below:-
Pub 75 implemented:-
Originally each player have 3 templates under faction gear, now they are down to 0 or 1.
In this scene, we already can tell that just the template itself already fall shorts in the faction pvp activities.
Then we got people who customize full set of armour under imbue and reforge and not need any faction arties, well some of those will decided to just quit faction and pvp/pvm under their blue characters. Well this again decrease the faction pvp activities.
Then we got some god thief, god pvper, god wash point people, god nerd who are able to acheive the higher ranks for the higher ranked artifacts, but because the ranking bracket is so small that when there are more than few of these top nerd, top pvper, etc... they also have trouble compete and wearing their armour! So end up without their armour, they either gotta customize it, readjust, or they just don't play, which again is a sign of faction pvp activities in decline.
Like I said, its the change of one thing that affect the outcome of many other things.
Moreover, it really doesn't make sense. If originally, there are 100 of players in a pvp bracket Pre Pub 75, those 100 players are still pvping in Pre Pub 75 either in blue or in factions. Now after Pub 75, 90+% of the players have their armour dropped with only 10% or less that can avoid of dropping armour (temporariliy; in which they are able to go straight and fight in pvp), then those 90%+ of peeps will need to readjust their armour to go out and fight again. But will all 90+% of these people go and adjust their armour for faction pvp? Like I said, many will have to adapt and adjust their armour, but the point is that they might not be staying in factions anymore, because there are no new content or any interesting content enough to keep them inside the system. Again this is a decreasing of faction activities.
The logic is the same, if EM event announced that there is no reward at all, how many players you think would cut short in participation?
Like I mentioned 100000000 times, since UO implemented into a more ITEM BASED game system, everyone have a fairly high incentive to adjust their suits to play on the ground. Human are never satisfy at all, they want more. That's why when faction artifacts are easier to come by, more templates are created and used in pvp / pvm activities. More templates means what? Means a possibilities of more accounts created.
Moreover, faction artifacts only hold 1/4 of a players equipment if you think clearly. There are a total of 15 slots for equipment, excluding weapon and shield.
Normally a dexer template include:-
either a mace glass, bear hat or deer hat (1 slot)
glove (usually is under imbued, very seldom using that 25 di one due to the resist will suck in poison and fire)
talisman (sometimes will be using the rank 7 ones, but actually there are still a BETTER replacement (conjurer trinket) out there
apron (gives you 5 more dex, but then even lesser 5 dex under the normal version still isnt the end of the world)
So as you see, total of 15 slots, faction gear only holds up to max of 4 slots for the dexer templates in normal.
You still have 11 slots that you need to think yourself in customization. So again, I don't see a problem of when everyone have the same ground of using those as a basic starter in faction.
