I've not seen formal alliances or such. But I have myself on occasion teamed up with opposing faction members. I remember an EP player cheering as I killed two AD players on Alessia Bridge. He didn't attack me during or after the fight and we stayed there a while and ganked AD players fighting over Sej.

Most of the time I think people just think they are being ganged up on. People often see AD fighting DC at Ash and EP fighting DC at Ales and think they are being ganged up on but dont see that AD and EP are fighting between Alessia and Sej. Same way people always think they are being zerged and they seem blind to just how large their own numbers are.

The factions operate in a way most beneficial to themselves without much coordination.

However, organized guilds 100% absolutely and without even the vaguest notion of a doubt "team up".

So, for instance.. when you say that PC NA Haderus that AD is facing a purple alliance, it doesn't mean that the factions have some sort of sordid cross faction alliance; But, what it means is that guilds on either side have an agreement in place to focus and assist each other versus AD.

It's not going to stop DC from attacking EP, or vice versa. But the organized guilds and whoever is following them around will be operating in a coordinated with the other faction manner.

I guess you need to remember that many of the organized "we r teh bestust" types are also in cross faction dueling guilds in large numbers. So coordination (and more that would be off topic) isn't a stretch.

Lastly, sometimes what is being perceived as "teaming up" isn't always organized or even discussed between factions. Like I led this post off with, the factions will operate in a way most beneficial to themselves without much coordination. Just because the other faction seem to be coordinating doesn't always make it so. Particularly when it comes to de-emping your faction, it's not like it's all that complicated to realize the last emp keep is going to be well defended and that fighting each other instead of the emperor faction is going to lead to failure.

Its part of RvR, sometimes when a whole faction is stacked at a last emp keep it requires a team up to get the job done. Every faction gets focused sometimes and its not a bad thing, makes for some really interesting dynamics and fragile truces that can break at anytime.

Sometimes, since we have so many people in the same campaign with different faction toons, all in the same guilds, and team speak, it happens from time to time, one would be naïve to think other wise.

In good three faction warfare it should happen naturally when one faction gets dominating the other two factions start to attack them on different fronts, there does not need to be coordination for that to happen it just happens, but in this game seems like so many people want the easy win and the dominating factions attack the weaker faction, which is shame, when played right three faction warfare is awesome.

Sometimes they do, most of the times someone complains they just both decide to attack the third faction...

You've obviously never played on EU PS4. The Purple alliance stands no matter what. Blues stand side-by-side with Reds even when they own the entire map and are spawn camping Yellows. "No team ups" my ass. Tell that to the Blues + Reds who team up against Yellows no matter how the map looks.

Yes conditions can dictate temporary alliances but they should be extreme conditions. The 'conditions' of the Purple alliance on the EU PS4 server are as follows:

• Yellows have keeps? Check

Right time to team up against them!

heystreethawk wrote: »

Starting to feel like we'll have to draw up a document to save Trueflame tbqh

Don't worry.... an agreement could be close..... #SOON