how do i ally with a faction

[Black Eye games]

over the years the way to ally with a faction hads changed like to know how

[Beserker]

I believe that most of them require something from you like money or bringing them their enemy?

[Shidan]

Healing faction members still works. Though it is a VERY minor effect. Usually taking hundreds or thousands of heals to make any real progress.

Various factions have methods to ally with them through dialog though.

• United Cities, Trader's Guild, and Shinobi Thieves just require money.
  
  
• Shek Kingdom and Holy Nation want you to deliver their enemies' leaders to them.
  
  
• While the Flotsam Ninjas and Anti-Slavers just require you to pledge yourself to their causes.
  
  
• And the Swampers want you to do a "mission" of sorts for them.

[Real MazeRunner]

"Catch and Release" via bounties and slave purchase works o.k too.

[BlitzBob NoPants]

Anti-Slavers aren't on the current map yet though, are they?

As for the healing up members of a faction for rep method; You get more rep for healing characters higher up in the hierarchy.
So aim to heal i.e. those high paladins and inquisitors over the holy chosen.

There is a significant boost to rep if you heal up a character with diplomatic status.
If one has received a severe beating and you are the only one healing him, you get around 6-7 rep with their faction.

I currently have a holy nation diplomat in a bar in the swamp and one in a waystation who both consistently pick fights with the local skeletons, only to find their innards scattered across the floor a few moments later. If you care about relations with the holy nation, just scrape the holy giblets of the floor and cram 'em back inside of them for a good, repeatable source of holy nation rep.

[Real MazeRunner]

Not sure if Anti-Slaver's are in, but I find scooping bounties for rep with UC works well and buying slaves is a workable method to grow with whoever you feel like catching and dragging around.

A large group of manhunters got into it in Sho-Battai in my current game. By the time it was over I was a few thousand richer and walked away with about 50 UC rep from the bounties :)
I'm debating trying this with the TechHunters' but I have some misgivings. They patched me up at random a few times and saved me from dying in the desert, so I feel I owe them one.

Didn't know the rank had an effect. Might be why I wound up with 105 rep with the Shinobi at one point. I objected to the beating and enslavement of the Thief Boss before I could officially join.

[BlitzBob NoPants]

Holy Nation is by far the easiest to befriend in my opinion. I believe you get extra rep for turning in bounties and then not asking for payment too.

[Shidan]

Originally posted by BlitzKrieg-Kjeld:

Holy Nation is by far the easiest to befriend in my opinion. I believe you get extra rep for turning in bounties and then not asking for payment too.

Works for UC too. Though you get to take the money as well. :D

Edit: And no, the Anit-Slavers are not in yet. But I've looked at their dialog to see the join process.

[Real MazeRunner]

I'd have to check, but I think I'm at -112 rep with them, current game.

[BlitzBob NoPants]

Only -112? You've been too friendly it seems. I am -140 or so and I actually did play around with the rep increasing tools :P

[Real MazeRunner]

Originally posted by BlitzKrieg-Kjeld:

Only -112? You've been too friendly it seems. I am -140 or so and I actually did play around with the rep increasing tools :P

All I did was pass through the area. They got my original Skeleton starter and the rest of the group took two paladins in revenge of the metal master.

[BlitzBob NoPants]

Yeh, I tried keeping peaceful with them this time around myself. For a while carrying my skeletons over my shoulder kept them from getting angry, but I then it didn't.

Since I already got hostile with them anyways, I allied with the Flotsam Ninjas which netted me a further -75 rep.

[nex]

healing faction members sort of caps out at ~5 relations for me.. when i tried healing after that the gains were VERY low compared to 0-5..

[Merliun]

Originally posted by BlitzKrieg-Kjeld:

Only -112? You've been too friendly it seems. I am -140 or so and I actually did play around with the rep increasing tools :P

-162 just because they annoy me to no end xD.

Originally posted by Shidan:

Healing faction members still works. Though it is a VERY minor effect. Usually taking hundreds or thousands of heals to make any real progress.

Various factions have methods to ally with them through dialog though.

• United Cities, Trader's Guild, and Shinobi Thieves just require money.
  
  
• Shek Kingdom and Holy Nation want you to deliver their enemies' leaders to them.
  
  
• While the Flotsam Ninjas and Anti-Slavers just require you to pledge yourself to their causes.
  
  
• And the Swampers want you to do a "mission" of sorts for them.

Been raising UC via bounties but who do i give the money to in order to increase their rep? same for the Traders guild. I have talked with Lady Kana and that gave me 10 with them unlike the other nobles that, lets just say annoyed me to the point where they are walking arround naked.

[Shidan]

UC would be Koin in the Imperial Palace at Heft, while the TG is going to be Yamdu at their HQ in Trader's Edge/Heng.

[Merliun]

Originally posted by Shidan:

UC would be Koin in the Imperial Palace at Heft, while the TG is going to be Yamdu at their HQ in Trader's Edge/Heng.

Ah, i tought it would be their respective leaders as in tengu who gives me a "quest" witch he then found himself walking with rag pants, and the leader of the TG who tells me to go after tinfist (who is in the last part of the map), i did not know there were other important NPC's there.