Factions: A Community Game-Mode made by players!

RaptorAttacks·Aug 21, 2015·6 votes·1,428 views

Looking for something new to try in League?

Looking for something to do in League?

Want to try a new Game-Mode made and run by the community?

Interested in the Pre-Retcon Lore of the League?

Then you should try FACTIONS!

Factions is a cool way to test your skills, by not only limiting rosters, but also matching you with different and interesting people! It has a healthy community, dedicated staff, and it even has its own forums! We have featured matches at weekends, which are streamed and casted. We rotate Factions every arc, and are currently doing Shurima, Piltover and Noxus.

Not only that, but at 5PM Pacific Standard Time, we have FACTIONS FRIDAY, where we get as many games going as possible!

So come visit us, in the ‘FACTIONS’ chat!

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CupcakeTrapAug 21, 20152 votes

To explain a little more, the basic idea of Factions is:

We pick a few in-universe factions. Currently, we're doing Noxus, Piltover, and Shurima.
We pick Champions for those factions, mostly drawing from Champions who are "from" those places, but coloring outside the lines as necessary to keep it interesting.
We come up with a League dispute involving those factions. In the current storyline, Lines in the Sand, Azir has raised the Sun Disc and proclaimed a new Shuriman Empire—an Empire which does not recognize the thousands of years of colonial borders drawn over Shurima by the great powers of Valoran. A war broke out almost instantly. The League has managed to contain the fighting to Shurima, and prevent troop deployments from anyone other than Noxus and Piltover, the two "great powers" who had sizable forces in Shurima when the fighting started.
Once the storyline kicks off, anyone can start or join a match anytime, as a custom game, using these rosters. Results from each match are sent in, scored, and added to a "Balance of Power" scoreboard. Matches are worth more or fewer points based on the skill matchups of the teams.
Summoners declare for a faction, and fight for them on the Fields of Justice.
The storyline develops based on how these matches go.
Storylines run for about three months. At that point, we finish the story based on how the matches went, then have a vote to decide on a new set of factions.
Regardless of who you fought for last time, we start fresh with each new storyline.

It's meant to be a fun game mode that poses some novel strategic puzzles due to the limited rosters. It's also intended as a way to tie lore and gameplay together, putting players (Summoners) in the midst of the story, and leaving it up to their performance on the Fields to decide how the story plays out.

Matches happen whenever you or someone else sets one up.

To get started:

Pick a faction and sign up.
Join the Factions chat in-client.
When you're ready to play, you can either set up a match yourself, or join your faction's specific "looking for match" chat. (These are named, e.g., "Noxus", "Piltover", "Shurima".) Those chats are the first places people will look when setting up a match.
Today being Factions Friday, we'll make a special effort to get lots of matches going tonight starting at 5:00 Pacific time on the NA server.

If you have questions, feel free to post here.

ModAttysu The PoroAug 21, 20152 votes

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To explain a little more, the basic idea of Factions is:

We pick a few in-universe factions. Currently, we're doing Noxus, Piltover, and Shurima.

We pick Champions for those factions, mostly drawing from Champions who are "from" those places, but coloring outside the lines as necessary to keep it interesting.

We come up with a League dispute involving those factions. In the current storyline, Lines in the Sand, Azir has raised the Sun Disc and proclaimed a new Shuriman Empire—an Empire which does not recognize the thousands of years of colonial borders drawn over Shurima by the great powers of Valoran. A war broke out almost instantly. The League has managed to contain the fighting to Shurima, and prevent troop deployments from anyone other than Noxus and Piltover, the two "great powers" who had sizable forces in Shurima when the fighting started.

Once the storyline kicks off, anyone can start or join a match anytime, as a custom game, using these rosters. Results from each match are sent in, scored, and added to a "Balance of Power" scoreboard. Matches are worth more or fewer points based on the skill matchups of the teams.

Summoners declare for a faction, and fight for them on the Fields of Justice.

The storyline develops based on how these matches go.

Storylines run for about three months. At that point, we finish the story based on how the matches went, then have a vote to decide on a new set of factions.

Regardless of who you fought for last time, we start fresh with each new storyline.

It's meant to be a fun game mode that poses some novel strategic puzzles due to the limited rosters. It's also intended as a way to tie lore and gameplay together, putting players (Summoners) in the midst of the story, and leaving it up to their performance on the Fields to decide how the story plays out.

Oh that's really friggin cool!

ModAttysu The PoroAug 21, 20151 votes

This exists? THE PRIVATE SERVER WoW APOCALYPSE HAS RISEN AGAIN!

This seems really interesting, but how does skins and stuff work? Do we pay you guys for skins like we do Rito? O-o (I must know, I am obsessed with skins.)

CupcakeTrapAug 21, 20152 votes

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This exists? THE PRIVATE SERVER WoW APOCALYPSE HAS RISEN AGAIN!

/r

This seems really interesting, but how does skins and stuff work? Do we pay you guys for skins like we do Rito? O-o (I must know, I am obsessed with skins.)

Nobody pays us anything; it's entirely volunteer-run by community members. It's not a separate server, just a game mode based on faction versus faction matches. We're mostly active on NA, but also on EUW.

ModAttysu The PoroAug 21, 20152 votes

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Nobody pays us anything; it's entirely volunteer-run by community members. It's not a separate server, just a game mode based on faction versus faction matches. We're mostly active on NA, but also on EUW.

Sooo... how does one play this then? O_o

CupcakeTrapAug 21, 20152 votes

(Copied from the Reddit thread.)

To get started:

Pick a faction and sign up.
Join the Factions chat in-client.
When you're ready to play, you can either set up a match yourself, or join your faction's specific "looking for match" chat. (These are named, e.g., "Noxus", "Piltover", "Shurima".) Those chats are the first places people will look when setting up a match.
Today being Factions Friday, we'll make a special effort to get lots of matches going tonight starting at 5:00 Pacific time on the NA server.

If you have questions, feel free to post here.

ModAttysu The PoroAug 21, 20152 votes

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(Copied from the Reddit thread.)

To get started:

Pick a faction and sign up.

Join the Factions chat in-client.

When you're ready to play, you can either set up a match yourself, or join your faction's specific "looking for match" chat. (These are named, e.g., "Noxus", "Piltover", "Shurima".) Those chats are the first places people will look when setting up a match.

Today being Factions Friday, we'll make a special effort to get lots of matches going tonight starting at 5:00 Pacific time on the NA server.

If you have questions, feel free to post here.

Hm... what if I wanna play a character like Lulu or Veigar? They were banished by Bandle City, so they don't really belong anywhere. I'll sign up, but me just curious for my Pix loving main Lulu

CupcakeTrapAug 21, 20151 votes

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Hm... what if I wanna play a character like Lulu or Veigar? They were banished by Bandle City, so they don't really belong anywhere. I'll sign up, but me just curious for my Pix loving main

Many League Champions have rather ambiguous allegiances. Indeed, in ordinary matches, Summoners and Champions fight for whoever calls them forth. (It's part of the League's internationalist agenda.) Factions storylines are about special disputes in which Champions and Summoners are allowed (and required) to take sides. When that happens, people start making deals, and tough decisions, and we end up with rosters.

We usually put Lulu on Bandle City. Sure, other yordles think she's weird, but she's a yordle nonetheless.

Veigar is trickier. He hasn't been in an arc yet. I could see him showing up as a "wildcard" pick for just about any faction that's fighting Noxus. He might even be recruitable by Bandle City, despite trying to steal the Mothership and cause other mayhem within the city. It would all depend on the story.

ModAttysu The PoroAug 21, 20151 votes

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Many League Champions have rather ambiguous allegiances. Indeed, in ordinary matches, Summoners and Champions fight for whoever calls them forth. (It's part of the League's internationalist agenda.) Factions storylines are about special disputes in which Champions and Summoners are allowed (and required) to take sides. When that happens, people start making deals, and tough decisions, and we end up with rosters.

We usually put Lulu on Bandle City. Sure, other yordles think she's weird, but she's a yordle nonetheless.

Veigar is trickier. He hasn't been in an arc yet. I could see him showing up as a "wildcard" pick for just about any faction that's fighting Noxus. He might even be recruitable by Bandle City, despite trying to steal the Mothership and cause other mayhem within the city. It would all depend on the story.

Ahhh okay! Thanks. :D

RaptorAttacksAug 22, 20151 votes

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This exists? THE PRIVATE SERVER WoW APOCALYPSE HAS RISEN AGAIN!

/r

This seems really interesting, but how does skins and stuff work? Do we pay you guys for skins like we do Rito? O-o (I must know, I am obsessed with skins.)

We don't really count skins as different factions, per say. For instance, Bilgerat Rumble is from an Alternate Universe where Rumble is a pirate, or Rumble dressing up as a Pirate. We try to stick to Pre-Retcon lore, and leave things like Skin Universes alone.