Editing The Fearsome Factions Update (section)

=== Additions ===

* Significant changes to Faction functionality
** Deposited Bcoins are now converted to Faction Points (“FP” in-game)
** Faction Level has been removed from the game
*** “Total FP Deposited” and “Monthly FP Deposited” are the metric for measuring a faction’s power and activity level
*** Existing factions have had BC spent on leveling added to their Total FP Deposited counter
** Boosts: FP can be consumed to trigger faction-wide loot action boost multipliers
*** Faction Boosts increment by steps of 0.25x, up to a total of 5x
*** Increasing the Faction Boost level also increases FP consumption per second
*** Faction Boosts can be active forever, depending solely on whether there is FP available to consume
*** Changing any Faction Boost will incur a 20 minute cooldown on further changes to that action’s Faction Boost
** Faction Customization: Factions can set tags, which are identifiers that display in front of members’ names (like “&#91;EPIC&#93; Wewert”)
*** Faction owners can set a “Message of the Day” (shown to members) and an “About” description (shown to the public)
** Ability to transfer faction ownership re-enabled
** Number of pending join requests are shown to faction members with adequate permissions directly on faction info page
** Faction changes (Receiving a join request, promotions/demotions, changing a boost) are now logged to the Faction’s chat channel
* Random Effects: Buffs can randomly trigger whenever an Action is performed
** Effects provide multipliers to a random loot-bearing action
** Rarer effects last longer and provide more significant multipliers
** Random Effects have an equal chance of occurring when an action is run, regardless of charge %
* Rare Items: A new class of Item that may very rarely drop from loot-bearing actions
** Standard multipliers don’t affect Rare Item drop rates
** Each Ascendant Tier increases Rare Item base drop rate by 25%
** Existing Rare Items have been renamed, their base worth modified, and/or had their use in crafting recipes changed depending on historical difficulty to obtain
** Rare Items with higher base worth are more elusive and drop less frequently compared to those with relatively lower base worth
* Stats: FP Contributed (Lifetime, All Factions) and Rare Items Found now tracked
** Display Stat: Track a live-updating statistic on your Balance card (visible to both you and all others)
* Leaderboards: All Stats, Factions and Items are now tracked on leaderboards
** Stat and Item leaderboards are available both globally and per Discord server
* Pin Sorting: Control the order which pins appear in your Inventory
** Due to platform limitations pin management is only available on Web Client at the moment, but changes will instantly sync to Discord client as well