Faction Raiding

So the newsletter has given us some details on raiding another faction, forgoing respect gains in order to cause more damage to another faction's respect. It should inject some much-needed, meaningful action into Torn and offer us a new way to police the community. No decent faction will want to harbor certain well known forum trolls, will they?

Aside from that, what fights do you expect to see from the larger factions? Any old, deep grudges out there waiting to be settled? The reporters at Torn's newspaper must be excited to have some juicy battles to write about in the coming months.

TRT verses the world 

It might be exciting, or it might be like territories where once the big factions get comfortable it's never used. With no gains for the attacking faction, there isn't much incentive to raid when you're essentially spending your time and energy for no benefit to yourself or your faction. 

TRT and a couple other troll factions will probably get deleted, but after that I don't see much raiding going on by factions that matter. But maybe I'll be wrong?

i feel like in incentive to be able to mess up a factions specials will make it a little bit more interesting 

there are also plenty of grudges out there to make it fun to do so 

make the wrong person angry then boom there goes 1m respect 

I suspect this is very close to the truth.

A few notorious players will be hit until the luls are over. I don't suspect we will see JFK vs _____ insert HOF faction _____, *ever?*

Anyone wanna paste the content here? , for those of us too lazy to log into their email accounts :p Would be lovely XX

The acension of AOW to its rightful place back on top of the pile.  AOW Hoorah!!!



p.s. I meant back on top of this sort of pile.

I already know which faction we will be raiding at HB1

RAIDING - TORN'S DESTRUCTIVE WARRING

The designs for faction raiding (formerly known as 'Destructive Warring') are now complete and will begin implementation over the coming months. This is the second of four planned warring modes being implemented while the special rewards for competitive warring are worked on.

This one in particular brings back an old warring mechanic where factions can deal meaningful damage to other factions, and in some cases even destroy them if they have the perseverance. In the past we saw epic conflicts, acts of vengeance and blackmail - the potential threat of raiding alone will conjure a feeling of vulnerability, risk and apprehension.

Raids will be Torn's destructive warring. Any faction can start a raid on any other faction at any time, allowing them to make hits on its members - dealing damage to their respect. There is nothing to be gained specifically by the raiding system itself: each faction forfeits all gains made on hits against the members in exchange for dealing increased respect lost.

We expect raiding to be fairly rare - but when they happen they'll be big news.

Just before this, we'll be making some subtle changes to chain incremental hits, adjusting the respect lost of the target's faction during attacks, and revising 'faction death' mechanics. After the release of raiding, dirty bombs will be re-enabled with some rebalancing.

After this, we'll be implementing the influence system into territory warring - an important feature that creates special hotspots around the map that factions will really want to pursue.

Sweet!

I fully imagine that extortion will come back.



"Pay us this amount or we will take *insert number* respect from you". I like it.

About time...

Wars are boring as hell right now. Who cares about building respect, too many ways so we are all winners, yay us!

Much more fun to strip respect, to make things personal...

Troll factions, start shitting yourselves now as your time will be limited...

Torns wrath will be re released and I can't wait... [:sick:]

The trolls barely play though, so they aren't bothered anyway ... TRT / TMB



and again, a very long winded process - as as stated, will be rare . Only time will tell!

They are not bothered now as they are "taking no losses"...

That line is hard to use as your respect drops like a stone...

Fun, fun, fun... [:sick:]

TRT will be renamed from The Redeem Team to The Raiding Target

what got my attention is ""We expect raiding to be fairly rare - but when they happen they'll be big news.""

this means they'll make it pretty worth it ? or like pretty damn expensive ? or how ? can't wait to see the idea they came up with 

The tears of your prey make it worth it... [:sick:]

I am hoping we will see much respect being destroyed, so that the HoF doesn't demotivate would-be faction leaders. Now, I imagine decide not to go for a faction, thinking those respect scores are impossible.

Bye bye TRT lmao. Thats if it still has any active and non-fedded members once Operation n00b hammer is complete hahaha