During a nice weeklong break from the Deep Desert, it wanted to push Landsraad. I had enough of an understanding now about it, and I felt I could make a difference for my faction. I ended up having no idea just how much of an impact I would have.

During the week off, I ended up grinding out tasks for Landsraad. Each day, 5 tasks unlock. Usually they do so at a great time I can be around. I ended up lucking out during the week and was able to make time for it.

Pushing Landsrrad was not my only goal for the week. When I could not work on it. I wanted to grind an insane amount of resources. I’m getting to the point in the game where I could see at some point not wanting to spend so much time in it.

To set myself up for that. I wanted to ensure my guild had a massive stockpile of just about everything we needed. I also wanted to make sure we had enough resources to keep all our bases fueled and the 40k tax on our bases covered for quite a while. So, I could just log in every other week at some point in the future and maintain things when that time comes. It would, however, be a while before then.

It’s quite important to be around when the new tasks show up each day, as any that require easy turn-in items can be gone within minutes, if not the first hour. While other tasks can take days or never get finished by either house, Atreidies or Harkonnen.

Being on the side of Harkonnen. We have not won a single Landsraad as far as I'm aware on the server I'm on. It’s never even been close. In part, it’s just because most don’t know about them. Even if you do, would you rather be off getting tier 6 materials than spending sometimes an hour grinding out kills?

There are also just a lot more people on the Atreidies' side. So, it’s kind of understanding that not only Harkonnen on the server I'm on, but on most servers, don’t try much anymore. One could say the books and movies did a really good job at driving people to the Atreides' side.

There is also no attempt to try and balance it by the game for quite some time. At some point, a third faction is expected. With all the hacking, exploiting, and bug fixing going on. It’s become quite clear that any kind of new content is far away.

Not a shock to anyone, but the Atreides were ready and took some of the easy tasks right away as they popped. This week was, however, going to be a bit different. It was not going to be a full board sweep this time around.

While I did not care much for the Reaper Gloves schematic. I went out and farmed 15k kills worth of deserters. For the longest while, I was the only one getting any points from what I could tell.

Then I noticed a few hours later, we were just a couple of thousand away from winning it. So, I rushed out to get a few more kills. The Harkonnen then took their first task win in perhaps some time on the server I'm on.

There was also another task that we did not win. It just required static compactors. They were quite easy to make. I, however, did not want to use up a bunch of annoying resources to farm. So, I turned in what I thought would be 14k points, but it ended up being almost 20k points.

While the game tells you how many points per item turn-in is worth. There appears to be some kind of bonus, bug, or something I'm just not getting. At best, I think there are some bonus points for the remaining durability on the item being turned in as well.

Regardless, after a couple of hours, the Harkonnen were up to 53k points before the Atreides finished off the task. I was kind of shocked the Atreides took so long. I can only assume that if the same couple of people try and max turn in these tasks every week, that would be quite the drain on your resources to sustain that week after week.

There was, however, another kill mission. So, I went out and started to grind that as well. Not a reward I cared much for again. This would end up being our second mission win.

Perhaps I thought and was quite wrong in the end. The Harkonnen were somehow quite close but just never able to get enough points to beat out the Atreidies. This made me want to give this week my best effort.

While the Harkonnen were still behind. It was at least 3 to 2, and that did not feel so bad. The guild I was in was where I was the only one working on the missions. Was able to maintain top 3 for most of the week's Landsraad.

After attempting quite a few missions where I did not care much for the rewards. Along with the Atreidies taking a few more wins. A new one had popped up that had the Compact compactor Mk6 that I've been wanting for a while as the reward for 10,500 points.

Even better yet, you only needed to turn in Adept Swords. So, I crafted up again around what I thought would be 14k points. Somehow, that amounts to almost 30k. Having almost done half the task. There was at least one or two other Harkonnen that did the mission as well. Getting us our third win.

While at this point, the Atreidies are down bad with the Atreides now having 7 mission wins for the week vs our 3. You have to understand something. The Atreidies are not used to the Harkonnen winning any missions whatsoever. They were quite unhappy about it.

The Atreidies were so anergy. The only reason they pulled so far ahead of the Harkonnen. Is because their top guilds started to craft and turn in items that cost tier 6 resources. Not something they were used to needing to do.

Now the nice thing was that even once the mission had been one by one side or another. If you don’t care about earning points for your side, and you just want the rewards. You can still work on the missions themselves. That, however, seems kind of pointless when most weeks it’s similar rewards.

By this point, I had quite a few points in a few different missions. I decided to go do a reward claiming run. I just wanted to collect my Compact Compactor Mk6 schematic. To do so, you must find the house representative and ask for your reward.

It also seemed like, at this point, I might have started a fire under the Harkonnen's feet. Some kill missions had a low volume of NPCs you can farm. I racked up a couple of thousand points over a couple of days. Nothing major.

Someone, however, went crazy farming them Harkonnen and Atreides troops. I can only assume that involved swap sieges. Each main server cluster has twenty of them, and these are the Hagga Basin maps. With there just being a single Deep Desert and some other locations for those twenty.

Then there was another kill mission that showed up. It involved farming NPCs around are main base in Hagga Basin. I decided that these sorts of missions take a while before anyone wins them. That I'd load up my Assault Ornithopter with all the NPCs I was taking out. While this slowed things down.

The guild would end up being set for needed corpses for weeks. We had so much water, it was crazy. I even crafted the largest container you could make at the time and filled it. Along with over a dozen other containers of the more normal-sized containers.

At one point, we had almost caught back up to the Atreides. They had 8 wins to our 6. You need 13 mission wins for the week to ensure victory. There were just 2 days remaining.

I ended up doing another massive point turn when the last set of tasks popped for the week. I thankfully, while waiting on the item to craft, went around my base and realized I had looted some of the needed items when I was heavy farming row A in the Deep Desert.

Final Thoughts

While in the end, the Harkonnen still lost. With my guild ending up in third place with I got 100% all the points for my guild. This ended up having quite the profound impact I was not expecting on the Atreides. Moving forward, the Atreides were not about to allow things to get this close ever again.

Your guild can pay Spice to see what a task is beforehand. The following week, the Atreides were finishing off tasks before they were even made available. They spent an insane amount of Spice Melange on that and tier 6 resources, turning in higher-tier items.

Despite that the Harkonnen did put them on their toes somewhat. It was not as good as the week I went full on Landsraad. It almost seemed like the Harkonnen realized this put them on full tilt. Weeks later, while the Atreides were still spending like crazy, it seemed like the Harkonnen went back to their usual no-care attitude towards the Landsraad.

While others in my guild would join in by that point in the Landsraad as well. So, I was no longer solo, getting all the points for the guild. We mostly just focused on getting the rewards that we wanted. As there was no point in grinding for hours or spending resources to get stuff we did not care for.

As far as the Landsraad faction winners go. They all get to vote on one of three possible rewards. They tend to be either special vendors or stuff like reduced crafting costs. While that is nice to have, it’s not worth the effort unless there are enough people all earning points every week to win.

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