How many factions have been able to unlock their base?

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That thing should have implied baby-pills so everyone in said faction can contribute.
People would have seen it as an incitive to bring more friends (maybe) to pwi, instead of an incitive to leave pwi because they cant use their base.

Funny you should put it that way teabagg. Those are the very things my little hippie faction wanted to do. We don't want to do TW or FW or RW or anything else of the kind. My hope was to learn about running a faction and using my 2 100+ toons to help a few newbs learn the game and make it through their quests. I misunderstood the original patch notes and spent 30 big notes to open one only to learn the ugly truth a few days later. Now all those notes have been wasted and the base is closed. Oh well. That's just PWI. Very sad. I can't see how it would hurt anyone if there were factions whose members didn't live and breathe this game.

We have unlocked our base and spent 10 Gold to aquire the faction safe stone, seems we are now in the red with only getting 100 Lotality Points on Monday. Seems that the base after all the hard work of getting people to run FSD over and over again it will be closed this week if we dont reach the 1000 limit again this week. We are stuggling as we watch some of our Players leave for big Tw factions where they don't have to work so hard, TidesWell server is falling apart quickly, as we have 1 main Tw faction that wins the map year after year, and basically runs the economy of the whole server, by jacking up prices on everything new players to the game dont have a chance on the Tideswell server, sad but true and a little off topic,as a Faction leader I'm tired and this Loyality system for some causes stress not fun like a game should be;(

So if the base closes do you think Pwi will make me buy another faction safe stone ( no one knows)I'm guessing yes I could be wrong,but lets face it who would have thought they would have stolen all those billions of coins that we spent making the original base and all the merit all my people had with no consolation prize!!! No return of nothing except a big go **** yourself.

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We are stuggling as we watch some of our Players leave for big Tw factions where they don't have to work so hard, TidesWell server is falling apart quickly, as we have 1 main Tw faction that wins the map year after year, and basically runs the economy of the whole server, by jacking up prices on everything new players to the game dont have a chance on the Tideswell server, sad but true and a little off topic, ...

eh, not liking the whole targetting Tempest for the whole reason of tideswell issues xD For the market, throw that ball at the person having 30-50 catshop online who's not in Tempest.
For the rest, well, player shifting faction for higher pvp has always been a trend that has been happening since years ago, its just more impactful to smaller factions now because the influx of new players is fairly less then before. From rough estimating, small faction need like 15 active member who are in g16/T3 nirvana or higher to do enough fsj to unlock and maintain the base, while allowing room to not have to do fsj everyday for half of them. 8-10 people doing it everday just to maintain it can become a burden that is too much for sure. Also, Tideswell is one of the smaller server overall, so smaller faction feel the player movements a lot more.

But honestly, the base are a blunder in term of what you can do in there. If your faction is not able to do trials, you have less stuff then before, which is dumb.

I'm not going to point fingers at Tempest as obviously the state of affairs is not their fault in the slightest. It is true, however, that my faction has lost members to them much like @baysidebutterfly has, and to Dynasty, since this latest update debacle. My faction has done well and been happy on the server for years now, and we've consistently finished well (third-fifth place usually) each TW season even though we're just a medium-sized faction in the scheme of things. Since this update, though, we're demoralized at best.

To answer the OP: we have opened our base, and it has remained open since the update, but it's been challenging to keep it that way. We can never meet that 200x "cute"/reward pet interaction faction goal, nor do we ever have enough funds to take the boss kill goal instead, so we're stuck relying on FSJ/FSD spam (thankfully the double goal on FS completion helps in part). Our leader, director, and one of our marshals are instrumental in getting these goals done and dragging people through runs each day to meet these requirements. So there's probably 3-6 key officers/members in the faction who work extra hard in making this happen to keep the base open. I know it's a lot of pressure on them. In terms of active players, scanning the faction list at the end of the week shows around 40-50 players who have chivalry points for the week. We have a roster of around 160-170 (forget exactly without checking) many of whom are players who haven't been playing for the last few months, alts, or players locked out of their accounts as a result of the Arc enforcement.

Our leader is seriously burnt out. We're watching our members leave for big, successful factions like Tempest who can complete trials for the rewards (we've lost multiple members specifically due to this - we attempt trials each week but lack the numbers to clear trial 1 - we have usually about 18-20 members come) and offer easier access to a fuller endgame experience. Where does the small-to-mid-size faction find their place in this game anymore? Kalyst's request for details from CN on this base issue caused her to reply with "an active faction is key" (paraphrasing). When did "active" become synonymous with "large" and "high-level"? To drive these new requirements, a large, mostly end-game player base is needed. Why would anyone want to invest time and effort in developing a faction for new-to-mid-game players these days? I realize it's technically possible to achieve these base requirements with a smaller player base. We're managing to do just that, but it's feeling WAY more like a job, not a game. This isn't content, this isn't fun, it's drudgery. And our declining membership and burnt-out faction leadership is showing the effects of that.

For my part, I've been spending time in another popular sub-based MMO lately and having WAY more fun. There's also a buy-to-play MMO I play occasionally and both offer so much more enjoyment for a minimal cost. I'd advise anyone considering starting to play PWI or return to it to look elsewhere; there's so many better games out there that care better for their customers.

Pretty much every server is doing this Migrating to the top two guilds from the looks of forums .Ti and ET and pooling most into 1 but well those servers populations are significantly lower than DA and quite a but lower than TW. In terms of activity so it stands to reason why small guilds are going poof.