MW Factions

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Once a faction has been created, it can be edited from the Faction Configuration menu within MekWars (Server Configs -> Faction Configuration)

There are many options in this menu (warning, this is a work in progress, unfinished at the moment):

Direct Sales Tab

The Direct Sales Tab

This tab relates to the ability of players in a faction to sell units directly to each other.

The "Use Direct Sell" checkbox enables or disables Direct Sell for this faction.
The Pricemod for each unit type is an amount added to the direct sales price, paid for either by the seller or recipient, depending on the "Seller Pays" checkbox on the Server Direct Sales menu.

Faction Tab

The Faction Tab

This tab contains miscellaneous configuration options for the faction.

Medium, Heavy, Assault XP: How many experience points necessary to purchase a unit of this weight
Min House Techs: What is the minimum number of techs/bays a member of this faction will have, regardless of how many bay planets the faction loses
EXP for Bay: At each interval, the player will get a tech/bay
Donations Allowed: How many units per tick can a player donate
Scraps Allowed: How many units per tick can a player scrap
Max MOTD Length: How many characters are allowed in the faction MOTD
Welfare Ceiling: Max # of cbills a player can have to collect welfare
Total Hangar BV for Welfare: Maximum BV in a players hangar to collect welfare
Cost Multi @ Donate: Multiplied by the purchase price of a new unit, charged at donation
Cost Multi to Buy Used: Multiplied by the purchase price of a new unit, this is the cost of a unit from the faction bays
Cost Multi @ Scrap: Multiplied by the purchase price of a new unit, charged at scrapping
Armor Scrap Cost: Percent of a unit's buy price to charge when scrapping a unit with minor armor damage
Critical Scrap Cost: Percent of a unit's buy price to charge when scrapping a unit with damaged criticals
Engined: Percent of a unit's buy price to charge when scrapping a unit with a destroyed engine
Forum Group Name: Only used if MySQL integration and PHPBB integration is turned on. Automates faction forum access.
Days Between Promotions: How many days must a player wait between subfaction promotions
Donate @ Unenroll: If checked, a player's units will be donated to the faction if he unenrolls. If unchecked, the units will be scrapped.
Faction Names on Games: If checked, the faction name will appear in game resolution announcements. If unchecked, the player name will appear.
Faction Names in News: If checked, the faction name will appear in the RSS feed. If unchecked, the player name will appear in the RSS feed.
Auto Promote Sub Factions: If checked, a player will be automatically promoted to a new subfaction when he qualifies for it

Factory Options Tab

The Factory Options Tab

Configuration settings related to factories:

Refresh fields: How many miniticks to refresh a factory after a unit is pulled from it
Sale Time fields: For how many ticks does a unit that goes to the black market get listed
Max Light Units: How many light units of each type will the faction bays hold
Max Other Units: How many units of other weights will the faction bays hold
Comp Gain Every: Gather component generation stats and show it to faction every X ticks
Disputed Planet Color: Color to display a planet on the map when no faction owns enough CP to be considered the owner
Min Planet Ownership: Minimum CP owned to have control of a planet
Auto Factory Refresh: Number of points the factories should refresh each tick even without active players
Produce w/o factory: If checked, units will be produced even without an appropriate factory
Output Multipliers: If checked, active players will be shown their contribution to faction production

Influence Tab

The Influence Tab

Configuration settings related to Influence. These override server-wide settings.

Max Player Influence: Maximum flu a player can have
Min Time for flu: How long after going active, will the player be eligible for influence gain. Influence will be gained starting at the next slice after the active player has passed this number. Milliseconds.
Floor Penalty: How much influence gain will an army be docked if it abuts the minimum BV.
Ceiling Penalty: How much influence gain will an army be docked if it abuts the maximum BV.
Overlap Penalty: How much influence gain will both armies be docked if they are too close together.
flue Per Army: How much influence does each army grant before modifications.