With the recent teaser drop on the faction play for 6.0, I thought I would jump on the bandwagon for suggestions!
Note that all you are about to read is highly opinionated, go easy!
Suggested to give Monetary Perks (CR) where there is a lesser RP gain.
Lawful Good ---------- Guardians
Chaotic Good ---------- Traders
LN-Neutral-CN ---------- Freelancers
Lawful Evil ---------- Hunters
Chaotic Evil ---------- Pirates
Trader: Goods, Trades, Loans and Economics
–The justification for profit is profit.–
min Get | 7min Put
- No Blackmarket tariff.
- Can buy from Blackmarket anywhere with 40% transaction fee
- Can only ally with factions from: Traders, Guardians, Freelancers
- +1% EB (standard interest tick timer) interest per 7mil in bank
- 0% EB transaction fee
- 1 RP / 12000cr per POI core destroyed (Faction) 6 per day
- 60% of RP purchase cost
- -1 RP per 4 deaths
- Starts with Light Armor
- 150cr per 1 hour playtime (alive, ticks only at 1 hour mark)
- 80% taxes
- Starts with Tomato, Pumpkin, Durian & Corn sprouts
- Trader only zone/NPC in EM which contains Server made packages that only Traders can buy.
- fa:scan 5min cd, 12km range
- -20RP requirement to buy NPC packages
- 5 bases max Cumulative (Eg: 2 private 3 faction / 1 private 4 faction / 0 private 5 faction)
- Can list max 5 ships for sale
- Cannot transfer CR to Pirates
Hunter: Bounties and squashing competition.
–I am a hunter. Space is my forest.–
- OCD: 15min Get | 15min Put
- Can only ally with factions from: Hunters, Freelancers
- +1% EB (standard interest tick timer) interest per 15 Hunterboard Kills
- 4% EB transaction fee
- 1 RP / 10000cr per POI core destroyed (Faction) 5 per day
- 90% of RP purchase cost
- -1 RP per 2 deaths
- Starts with Medium Armor
- 200cr per 2 hour playtime (alive, ticks only at 2hour mark)
- Full Tax
- Starts with Tomato Sprouts
- fa:scan 7min cd, 18km range
- -5RP requirement to buy NPC packages
- 3 bases max Cumulative (Eg: 1 private 2 faction / 2 private 1 faction / 0 private 3 faction)
- Can list max 2 ships for sale
Guardian: Protectors of stability.
–We carry this weight so that the weak may grow strong and the meek grow brave.–
- OCD: 15min Get | 15min Put
- Can only ally with factions from: Traders, Guardians
- +1% EB (standard interest tick timer) interest per 5 Hunterboard Kills
- 2% EB transaction fee
- 1 RP / 11000cr per POI core destroyed (Faction) 6 per day
- 80% of RP purchase cost
- -1 RP per 3 deaths
- Starts with Heavy Armor
- 100cr per 1 hour playtime (alive, ticks only at 1 hour mark)
- 90% taxes
- Starts with Tomato, Pumpkin & Durian Sprouts
- fa:scan 6min cd, 13km range
- -15RP requirement to buy NPC packages
- 8% discount when you buy from a Trader
- 4 bases max Cumulative (Eg: 1 private 3 faction / 2 private 2 faction / 0 private 4 faction)
- Can list max 3 ships for sale
- Cannot buy Pirate Origin Trades
- Cannot transfer CR to Pirates
Pirate: Robbers and Murderers.
–Take what you can, give nothing back.–
- OCD: 11min Get | 11min Put
- Can only ally with factions from: NONE not even Pirates
- +0.5% EB (standard interest tick timer) interest per 20 Player Kills
- 2% EB transaction fee
- 1 RP / 9000cr per POI core destroyed (Faction) 5 per day
- Full RP purchase cost
- -1 RP per 1 deaths
- Starts with Medium Armor
- 200cr per 2 hour playtime (alive, ticks only at 2 hour mark)
- Full Tax
- Starts with Tomato sprouts
- fa:scan 6min cd, 13km range
- Full requirement to buy NPC packages
- 3 bases max Cumulative (Eg: 1 private 2 faction / 2 private 1 faction / 0 private 3 faction)
- Can list max 2 ships for sale
- Cannot buy Guardian Origin Trades
- Cannot transfer CR to Guardians
Freelancer Everything you need done in the grey area.
–If I fits, I sits.–
- OCD: 17min Get | 17min Put
- Can only ally with factions from: Traders, Freelancers, Hunters
- +1% EB (standard interest tick timer) interest per 20 Hunterboard Kills
- 5% EB transaction fee
- 1 RP / 10000cr per POI core destroyed (Faction) 7 per day
- Full RP purchase cost
- -1 RP per 2 deaths
- Starts with Light Armor
- 100cr per 1 hour playtime (alive, ticks only at 1 hour mark)
- Full Tax
- Starts with Tomato & Wheat sprouts
- fa:scan 7min cd, 13km range
- -2RP requirement to buy NPC packages
- 4 bases max Cumulative (Eg: 1 private 3 faction / 2 private 2 faction / 0 private 4 faction)
- Can list max 3 ships for sale