The strongest factions?

[Yoru]

how many factions are out there?
i only heard DIS/AD thingy.

[Patchouli_Knowledge]

You mostly hear it because they are pretty much public while at each other's throat. It's is a bit hard to really gauge strength of factions these days especially if there is a particular faction that can keep themselves hidden while upping their strength like a Psilon on the highest difficulty level.

As for number of factions, there has been some recurring ones: AD, Dis, Odditown (with different theme each world), Emerald City. Knights who says nee. Some faction has appeared on both new Haven worlds including Archiplex's village, Robben's New Brodgar (which is different from Brodgar from old Haven), and Great House. Some make some periodic appearance but has no definite occurrence would include Burgingham's faction (usually known as Sodom) and Ainran.

Edit: I forgot about Amish Paradise, thanks Dageir.

[dageir]

Here is an attempt albeit feeble one to try to sum up the politics of Haven:
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=48794

[Yoru]

are they a cult or sumtin

[MagicManICT]

Probably best to leave discussions like that to the Moot thread. People start getting a little ruffled when you start throwing labels around. When they get ruffled, they start behaving poorly, which isn't allowed in Help. I'd hate to have to clean up because someone asked a valid question in the wrong place.