I suggest a cooldown on doing this.

Either would do. I just think it's important to ensure that people don't frequently switch depending on how they're feeling.

To switch allegiance, you would pay 10K LP of faction you want to switch to + 1,000,000 ISK. (or Aurum)

I'd like to propose adding allegiance as a feature.

Basic idea:

Choose your racial allegiance to represent in all all game types, including pubs.

How it would work:

When you create a new character and choosing your race, you are also choosing 'allegiance' for that race.

When playing pubs (or any game type) 1% of your WP will be converted to LP of your race, as you are representing your faction.

The longer you stay with your faction, the larger your LP bonus per match (up to 5% max)

Changing allegiance:

Many of us are stuck with a race we don't like, or merc quarters for that matter.

To switch allegiance, you would pay 10K LP of faction you want to switch to + 1,000,000 ISK. (or Aurum)

When you switch allegiance, your forum picture, merc quarters, and LP bonus will be switched.

Not patriotic to any one race? No problem.

Choose 'Pirate Allegiance' and get fat juicy ISK instead of LP every battle.

Pirate allegiance stays at 3% ISK however and never builds up.


What will this do?

- Add depth for role players
- Add the dynamic of representing/fighting for your faction at all times, even in pubs.
- Allow people to switch quarters, forums pics they hate
- Earn $money$ for CCP

Either would do. I just think it's important to ensure that people don't frequently switch depending on how they're feeling.

Limit choice, diversity, freedom, and Mercanics. No. Bad idea, or needs revision to not make me have to choose 1.

I like using LP for the faction to purchase a change in citizenship.

I think there should be a minimum Faction Standing that should be required as well. In order to gain citizenship it would make sense that you would have to have good standing with that faction.

I also like the AUR option. There are a lot of places where you can buy citizenship and bypass a lot of red tape if you are a big spender, and this would help fund the game.

So is this a FW rank name thread?

+1 though allegiance switching price hmm..

Sounds good to me, especially if everyone got to start at the Max Tier for the race they initially chose at Character Creation.

An alternative method for preventing people swapping too frequently would be to have it time-limited, say once per year, with the option to use AUR to gain the swap earlier. Anything I don't want that CCP can profit off is good by me!

Wait, are you saying it would cost LP to join or leave an alliance?

The Gallente and Minmatar share an alliance. Hence alliance, which allegiance an alliance have the same root meaning. When you are allied with Caldari you are in turn allied with Amarr and vice versa.

I may be missing points but I assume that you're considering Gallente and Mimatar being allied with each other and not have a allegiance for two races of your choice?

Amarr and Gallente allegiance would be beyond the bounds of immersion breaking. As far as "pirate allegiance" goes....pirate?
You mean just be a mercenary for all of them? Pirate would emply that you're playing for Serpentis, Angel Cartel, Blood Raiders and such, which actually opens up for a good idea to spiral off on but would not be appropriate in calling a mercenary function a pirate function.

Pirate has a strong stigma to it in New Eden not to be tossed around at fancy, even when compared to mercenaries.

Personally I don't think a cooldown would be necessary.

- There would already be a progressive build up 1%-5%, probably over the course of several months. Meaning hopping is not ideal.

- There is also the cost of 10K LP + 1,000,000 ISK (or just aurum)

I feel that's enough, if someone wants to keep paying and losing their built up bonus to switch allegiances then so be it.


As a further incentive for loyalists, I would propose some sort of little bonus for mercs who have stayed loyal for 6 months or more, such as having the faction logo displayed beside your name

If you 'swear allegiance' to Amarr for example, you more or less become an amarr

You simply don't. In Dust 514 we accept that due to a number of CONCORD mandates we cannot are be or are not a representative of our empires for any reason.....we are more or less political null entities. Should we choose it we can be 'employed' by a corporation that represents one of the New Eden Empire factions but we are not an official member of that group, we do not speak for it, we do not represent it, and you certainly do not just 'become' integrated into a faction by giving your word.

This is why I like the contracts idea so much. We're basically signing away some of our freedom for the right to legally privateer in the name of our chosen faction during which time after a suitable length of service our chosen Empire rewards us.