Loyalty represents your commitment to a nation. It determines whether you are eligible to fight at sieges and assaults .
You can check your loyalties with /res loyalties or /res loyalties <player name>.
¶ Gaining and Losing LoyaltyThere are two ways to gain loyalty: by ranking up, and playing normally.
Every Towny day you play more than 10 minutes , you gain 1 loyalty current nation .
You can see when the next Towny day begins with /towny time.
Leaving a nation will make you lose 1 loyalty
The maximum loyalty you can have towards a nation is 20 , and the minimum loyalty is 0.
I start in a nation called "America".
On Monday, I play for 10 minutes. I gain 1 loyalty towards America.
On Tuesday, I play for 9 minutes. I gain no loyalty towards America.
On Wednesday, I leave America and join another nation, "Brazil".
I lose 1 loyalty towards America.
And if I play for 10 minutes then I will gain 1 loyalty towards my new nation, Brazil.
You can also gain loyalty towards your current nation by ranking up .
Rank Up
Loyalty Gained
Member → Voyager
+1
Voyager → Explorer
+2
Explorer → Colonist
+3
To participate in a siege or PvP assault, you need at least 9 loyalty with your current nation . Otherwise, you will suffer from war sickness , which will give you negative effects such as poison and nausea.
France starts a siege on Germany.
Adam is a member of France. Adam only has 1 loyalty with France. Therefore, Adam cannot participate in the siege.
Gemma is a member of Britain. Britain is allied with France. Gemma can participate in France's siege as long as she has 9 loyalty with Britain .
Mayors of besieged towns don't need loyalty to fight.
If a town belonging to a nation is besieged but none of the nation's residents have enough loyalty to defend, they will all receive 9 loyalty.
If a town is under siege but nationless, its residents do not need loyalty to fight.