System Occupancy

Gaining occupancy of systems in Factional Warfare

How does a faction gain and hold occupancy over systems?

Gaining and Holding Occupancy

To gain occupancy over a system, the offensive faction must capture factional warfare dungeons from the defending side in order to render the Control Bunker in that system vulnerable to attack. Once this happens, the Control Bunker must be attacked and it's structure reduced to about one percent. The occupancy in that system will then change over to the new faction in the following server downtime. From the time the Control Bunker is lost and until the server goes down, new factional warfare dungeons will not spawn in that system and existing dungeons will not produce victory points.

Holding occupancy simply means defending the system in question from the opposing forces gaining control over them. Regaining occupancy for the sovereign faction (for example) is achieved by gaining control over factional warfare dungeons in the system that has previously been lost and then reducing the Control Bunker’s structure hit points in that system to roughly one percent. The system occupancy will change back during the following server downtime.

System Occupancy States

There are four "occupancy" states a system can have:

• Un-contested

This is the neutral state of the system, no occupancy (un-contested) status is visible under system information in this state as occupancy is not being fought over in the system.

• Contested

The attacking faction is gaining victory points and the system occupancy status is shown as contested.

• Vulnerable

The attacking faction has scored enough victory points to render the Control Bunker vulnerable to attack.

• Lost

The Control Bunker has been taken down and this state indicates the system's occupancy changing over to the opposing faction during the next server downtime.