Revision #1819 — Gangs and outposts guide

Join a gang on day 1. Full rules: Gangs, Gang Upgrades, Outposts.

What a gang gives you

A gang is up to 5 players, leader included.

Upgrades that apply to every member.
A shared gang vault, once the gang buys its first row.
Outposts. You can't warp to one without a gang.
Gang top: the top 3 gangs are paid Obols every week, and the top 10 earn Reputation at the end of the map.
No friendly fire. At KOTH everyone outside your gang is disguised.

Finding one

/g recruit opens the recruit board. A board join starts a 2 hour trial you can leave at once. A gang only gets 2 instant exits a day.
Otherwise leaving takes 24 hours, so pick with some care.
/g create <name> is free.

Upgrades: what to buy first

/g upgrades. Upgrades cost money only, and whoever buys a level pays from their own balance. The gang bank does not pay. Levels 1 to 4 cost $100k, $250k, $700k and $1.75M. From level 5 each costs $5M or more.

The first four levels of Energy Gain, XP Gain and Ore Gain. Each level is 1% increased for the whole gang. Four levels cost $2.8M a track.
The first Gang Vault row, $100k, if the gang wants shared storage. /g vault works in a safe zone only.
Whatever the gang does most. Expedition Item Quantity, Boss Keys Found and Hunter XP Gained for Expedition gangs. Shard bonus for gangs that mine shards.
Drachma Gained and Tribute Gained if your members own Siege bases. They cap at 10 levels, about $58M a track.
Then more levels on the tracks you use.

This order is a starting point from the prices, with no Map 5 play data yet.

Don't disband to reshuffle members. Disbanding loses the gang's upgrades.

Outposts

#	Outpost	Gear limit
1	The Chain Garrison	Chain gear and wood weapons
2	The Gilded Stronghold	Gold or lower
3	The Iron Fortress	Iron or lower
4	The Diamond Citadel	Diamond or lower
5	The Netherite Bastion	Netherite or lower

/outpost shows today's buffs and who holds each one. /outpost <1-5> warps you. The warp is refused if anything in your inventory is above the limit, worn or not.

Start at the Chain Garrison. Everyone fights on even terms with little to lose. Chainmail only comes from the Aegis and Ares G-Kits claimed under level 30. Wooden swords and axes are in /shop.
Deaths are full loot, and you are banned from outposts for 5 minutes, longer if you keep dying.
A gang holds one outpost. Capturing a second releases the first.
Capture only advances while yours is the only gang in the circle, so clear the point first. A point another gang holds drains to neutral first.
An outpost decays while every member is offline.
Only one account per connection can be inside.

Fighting and gear: PvP guide.

Which major to hold

Buffs rotate daily. Check /outpost and take the major that fits what your gang is doing.

Your gang is	Hold	What it gives
Leveling, under the level cap	Experience	20% increased XP gain, 50% increased shards
Mining at the level cap	Energy	50% increased energy gain, 50% increased ores from meteorites
Mining for money	Wealth	20% increased ore drops, 20% increased sell value
Running Expeditions and bosses	PvE	25% more PvE damage, 10% less PvE damage taken, 10% chance to double PvE drops, 20% increased luck on PvE loot
Working the Calcite Caverns	Calcite Caverns	More key component chance, cheaper calcite enchant attempts, faster respawn
Building Siege bases	Drachma	30% increased Drachma gained
Training guards	Tribute	30% increased Tribute gained

Switch from Experience to Energy once most of the gang is capped. XP does nothing at the cap.
Use the minor to break a tie.
If the major you want is behind a gear limit you can't win at, or out of rotation, take the next best.

Gang top

/gtop scores the trophies your best 5 members hold above the 400 everyone starts with.

Every member should own a Siege base and use their 3 attacks a day.
The weekly Obols only pay members who attacked at least once that week.

Read the teaming and trucing rule at ancients.gg/rules before you make a deal with another gang.