Just so I understand all this..
> The ophidian side was turned off when that event ended - loyalty with them is meaningless
When did it end? Event Ophids are still in t2a, was just there marking a Ton of runes.
The loyality lets me go there & strip mine to see what's there(probably my once only ever chance), + buy potions
Ah, they fixed it then. After the Bane/Ophidian war abruptly ended the Opidians were agressive to their friends, apparently that has been fixed.
Potions are the only things that loyalty with them will provide, and honestly, neither potion is that exciting.
You can still gain favor (+points) w/ Ophids, & meer, but not bane?
You Can only gain negative points w/ bane?
why does only killing meer give +points for bane - cause they screwed the coding when they moved bane?
Killing Ophidians nets you no points with the Bane.
Killing Meer
does gain you loyalty with the Bane.
Killing Bane gains you loyalty with the Ohphidians AND the Meer.
Story-wise, the Bane are supposedly attacking the Meer in revenge for the Plague of Despair in Yew and because the Meer are carrying power crystals. There
should be a stepped fontline war system between the two as in T2A (since new rewards DO exist: Feline's Grace & Gift of the Eternal), however, it has yet to be turned on.
This is why most people ignore the Bane as irrelevent since Mythic hasn't bothered to DO anything tangible with them.