Tao

The_Wall - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I myself being one of the first 150 in Tao can say the three things: Loyalty, Respect and Honor know it was just general good sounding principles. Just like saying honest, hardworking and experienced for a job. The thing Tao did do wonderfully in the first few months was doing anything and everything to be the greatest.

Start of by recruiting the most knowledgeable and most active players in the server. Know who your letting into the faction as well as you know your co-workers or more. Get investors to invest in your faction. Not only money to get the faction from Lv: 1 to Lv:3, TW bidding, TW towers but much more. Money to double the size of the checks your TW attending members should be reviving from the game. Money to buy the Lv: 6 apothecary for those in battles. Having an insanely active leader. Just the person having that position being online over half the hours of the day just to talk to people helps so many things.

Once things were up and running strong there was a great deal of effort in encouraging the Zhen leveling style. After that there was much more effort of getting Twilight Temple materials for members instead of for profit and squads with people out of faction. After that Rebirth Delta training style started becoming possible and getting everyone up to speed to do that leveling and money making style. Especially working on the gear and levels of wizards and barbarians at the time. Then getting FB99s completed for the Demon/Sage kill books and apothecary 8 books.

Other than level and gear once things are up and running recruit those who you know do well in Territory Wars and get along with people well. The best chances were when several people left another faction to process their applications right away. Not accept all of them but to process it right away.

If there was a battle that was lost in Territory Wars your going to have at least a 2 hour meeting after that battle even if that battle lasted 3 hours. You are going to sit there and discuss how you can improve your performance the next battle. Discuss what the other side did right discuss what you did wrong. Bring forth other strategies and ideas. Mix who is in what squad. Change what classes are in squads. Change which classes you recruit. Sometimes just completely change what the roster for the next battle looks like.

Now to bring up the less nice things. Keep everyone out of the faction in the dark about everything in the game PvE instance, PvP of all kinds. Do not teach anyone who did not have Tao over their head about any aspect of the game. If they do not know kick them out of the squad or whichever. On the other side of that make sure everyone in your faction does know everything. Give easy access to a great deal of guides. Make sure everyone knows where they were and constantly update them. Do not help anyone outside the faction level up or gear up. Make sure all you help in a squad is on your side.

Loyalty: Ever since the founding it was mostly groups of 5-20 people breaking off another faction to join Tao. From Radiance, Evolution, Legion, Triad and so on.

Respect: We poked fun at each other all day long. Calling each other noobs and fail and mixtures of their names and those terms. Once someone does a cybering wrong chat you laugh at that person for a good five minutes. If someone sucks at doing something you tell them openly all the time.

Honor: Anything and everything to be the best. Step on everyone outside the faction and sometimes even inside the faction to make yourself the greatest. Subvert others, scam others, kick others out of squad.

It is all about making every member of the faction one of the best in the game. Best in all the parts of PvE and PvP. Highest activity, best levels, best gear, largest knowledge, best attitude, most drive to improve even more. Being I was in Tao its first month of existence to its 9th month I know this. From when there was 3 lands down to 1 land to the maximum lands Tao ever had. Nearly impossible to know almost all of that from the outside. Edya herself is one of the most h0rny, passionate, emotional and very often blunt women I have ever known. A master of secretively making her faction the strongest with backhanded shadow moves. Myself and her were rarely respectful with each other. Yelling at each other in whisper, ventrilo and sometimes even faction chat (That scared a bunch of people -laughs-). No point in holding onto ideals that never were.

Enrage has very useful principles. I see them as one of the main reasons Enrage has been so resilient over time. Minimal rules all together. Don't Pk other Enrage members unless there is consent on both sides. Even in Cube of Fate or Thursday Tournament unless it is the only option left. On our forums the only thing you can't do is cause problems for the sake of causing problems. If the only thing everyone sees all day is you trying to start a fight with someone else in the faction there is a problem.

All things related to TW are very strict. Works like a military like any #1 TW faction should. Commander overrides all others and anything they do not say is up to the discretion of the captains. Everyone has to be an active member in TW at least. Optional to be active beyond that.

Other than that you can do whatever you feel like. Pk anyone out of the faction anywhere you want. Can kill people trying to kill a world boss, take credit from the others, reset the boss. Kill others with boss AoEs and switches of aggression. What people in other factions think doesn't matter. What officers in other factions does not matter. Enrage officers will not care unless it hurts Enrage in TW. Talk to GMs if you have a problem with an Enrage member.

RAWR! I'm a tiger

Bastilla - Raging Tide wrote: »

this right here is why i always wanted to be strong enough for enrage when i still played HT. though i am considering a return. i doubt any of my friends are left after almost a year of RT lol