HOW TO PLAY

🗺️ Territory & Grid War

The map is 25 sectors. Build a base in a sector and your squad controls it — one owner per sector, most bases wins.

How to win: hold sectors, cluster them (a connected block pays a bonus), and level them with more bases. Every held sector pays your squad in-game cash on a cycle. See the live board in #faction-territory or the Territory Income page.

🤝 Alliances & Diplomacy

Squads can make deals instead of fighting. Allies co-hold sectors and never contest each other; a pact is simple non-aggression; a vassal pays its overlord tribute in return for protection.

How to do it (in Discord): /diplomacy ally [tag], /diplomacy pact [tag], or /diplomacy submit [tag] to propose — the other squad runs /diplomacy accept [tag]. /diplomacy war [tag] puts a bounty on their land; /diplomacy peace [tag] ends it. See it all live on the War Map.

👑 The Four Factions

🧟 The Re-Animated · 🤖 TEC1 Sentries · 🔫 The Drifters · ☠️ The Condemned. Each controls sectors and fields its own themed NPCs.

How to win: /join-faction to pledge. Do things in their territory to earn reputation; good standing pays in-game cash dividends every 15 min (double on their ground) and buys you safe passage from their forces.

🎯 Nemesis Hunters

27 named hunters (Stalkers up to Deathless). Get marked and one stalks you — it whispers how close it is, then closes in with its crew. Escape it and it remembers, and comes back bigger.

How to win: stand your ground and break its crew. Kill enough of the hunter's pack and the hunt ends — you earn a long breather before anything hunts you again. Running only delays it.

🏰 POI Encounters

Walk into a named location (military site, town, bunker, junkyard…) and it fights back — a garrison, an ambush, a sniper, or a boss, themed to whoever controls that sector.

How to win: the bigger the POI and the higher your fame, the harder it hits. Clear it or outlast it — the bot tells you when it's over and gives you a breather. Friendly-faction ground leaves you alone.

🧟 Hordes & Sieges

Waves of the dead — and sometimes armed drifters — mass outside your base's bubble and close in. A siege is scaled to your squad's threat and comes from the faction that holds your ground.

How to win a horde: your base's flag radius auto-kills anything that spawns inside it — so they ring the perimeter and walk in. Hold the walls, thin them at the edge, and survive the timer (~10 min) for a cash + gear payout. Patience beats panic.

💰 Money, Fame & Insurance

Territory, dividends, and surviving events all pay real in-game cash to your bank. Your fame is your threat level — the higher it climbs, the harder the world comes for you.

Tip: insure your vehicles so a loss isn't permanent, and remember — being famous makes you a target. Big rewards, big heat.