Whats the general opinion on intra-faction warfare?
Hi all, just wanted to get the general opinion (mainly from Omni leaders) about intra-faction warefare (i.e Omni's attacking Omni's).
I ask because the areas (still) available to my guild are pretty much all Omni territory, so it will only really be vulnerable to Omni orgs.
Is this behaviour something that org leaders encourage, discourage/prohibit or have no opinion on? (in other words is this purly an Omni vs Clan thing in the layers minds)
Should never happen.... but probably will
Being a Omni Leader, I would like to comment that in-faction conflict over land control should not happen, and if it did the offending Org would be ignored when the Clanners attack them..... However, as the available QL's for land are limited, I can only imagine the discussions over which org gets the QL 200 plots..... couple this with the upcoming trend of tower ninjaing I can see Inter-faction fighting being inevitable. The fact that theres limited space doesn't make it right, but what will omni orgs do? draw straws for the plots? I don't think so. :)
There will be interfaction fighting...
... due to the incompetence of Digital River/FC.
99% of the land is taken, and the disabled land is not enough (by far) to accomodate the europeean guilds.
I am all for the rp aspect of AO, and NW has helped a lot, unfortunately the above mentioned problem will create a lot of Irate customers.
Landless Guilds a New Mercenary Power?
I was just thinking that some landless guilds can become new powerbases as untouchable mercenaries. As distasteful as it sounds, instead of a guild risking their land in a direct assault, they can hire mercenary guild(s) to assault towers. So it doesn't matter if the target land is Clan, Omni or Neutral. Do you think a situation like this will occur in a few weeks or months?
Re: Landless Guilds a New Mercenary Power?
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Originally posted by zugs
I was just thinking that some landless guilds can become new powerbases as untouchable mercenaries. As distasteful as it sounds, instead of a guild risking their land in a direct assault, they can hire mercenary guild(s) to assault towers. So it doesn't matter if the target land is Clan, Omni or Neutral. Do you think a situation like this will occur in a few weeks or months?
That's an interesting idea. Maybe it will provide a way for neutral guilds to recieve a bigger piece of the pie if they decide to become for-hire tower attackers. I would be most worried about inter-faction warfare in the low level areas though, places like Lush Fields, or Omni-Forest(for omni-tek) where there is little chance of clan attacks and bases that at least appear easy targets for guilds looking for land. The Notum Wars will bring a lot of faction solidarity though IMO, I know that I for one would never attack an omni tower base and am more than willing to help defend them from clan attack, and not just for the xp bonus (which was a very good decision by funcom, it provides a tangible benefit to facilitate clan vs. omni warfare).