View source for Realm Domination/Help and FAQ

Use the HUD's current Realm message first, then the website's '''Your participation''' panel. These tell you different things: the HUD describes your current location and battle, while the website shows your saved choice and recorded results.

== I cannot find the new HUD controls ==

# Make sure you are wearing the updated DoD HUD with Realm controls.
# Click the settings button and choose '''Action bar'''. Your usual options are now reached by choosing '''Settings''' from that first menu.
# Open the Bag using the button at the Action Bar's left end.
# If part of the bar is off screen, bring the main HUD into view using its usual movement control, then drag the bar's right-hand movement handle to a reachable position.

If the controls remain missing or unresponsive after the HUD reconnects, ask game support for help. Include the visible message and what you were trying to do.

== Why is Use or Lay Siege missing? ==

# Check '''Take part''' and your in-game availability on the website.
# Check that you carry a flag.
# Stand on a supporting surface in a permitted area and allow the HUD to update.
# Read the region's state and bar.
# Check whether another flag is already planted.

'''Use''' is available for Unclaimed territory or an enemy-controlled region at '''50% or below'''. It is blocked in your own territory, safe areas, protected regions, and locations where capture is unavailable. '''Lay Siege''' needs an enemy-controlled region and a carried flag, but spends none. At zero control, plant directly instead of laying siege.

The dialog can also need fresh information after you arrive, land, or reconnect. Close and reopen it after the HUD updates.

== Why am I not moving the bar? ==

# Check for '''Sanctuary''', '''Your influence fades''', '''Too swift''', or an availability message.
# Remain alive, on foot, grounded, and at ordinary movement speed.
# Make sure you are in the same region as the battle, outside its safe areas.
# Allow a fresh update after landing or teleporting.
# Check the eligible numbers on both sides and the original planter's situation.

Equal eligible numbers hold the bar still. People who are flying, sitting, crouching, falling, too fast, opted out, or otherwise unable to participate do not add influence just by being nearby.

After a flag is planted, its original planter must remain alive and in the region for forward progress. Grounded teammates can continue while that planter is only airborne or seated in the region, but cannot replace a planter who has left or lost valid presence.

== Can we win while our planter flies? ==

Yes, if the original planter remains alive and confirmed in the region and eligible grounded teammates are moving the claim. The planter's own influence stops while airborne, seated, crouching, or too fast. That alone does not break the flag.

If the planter leaves, enters a safe area, detaches, opts out, changes away from the flag's team, or loses a working connection, forward progress stops. If the planter dies, the flag breaks at the next capture update even when teammates remain.

== We reached zero. Why do the defenders still own the region? ==

Zero is the end of the owner's control bar, not a completed capture. With a flag planted, the display switches to that flag team's claim. Fill this new claim to '''100%''' to take ownership.

Without a flag, the owners keep the region at zero and can refill it. Plant a flag to begin your claim. If an enemy claim breaks before reaching 100%, the old owner keeps the region.

== How do we break a flag? ==

Fight its planter where ordinary combat allows, refill the owner's control to 100%, or push a claim to zero and keep its team outnumbered for the required time. Complete flag-team absence can also break it.

There is no separate flag object you must rez, click, or attack. See [[Realm Domination/Capturing and Defending|Capturing and Defending]] for the 20-second outnumbered and 30-second absence rules.

== Does Protected make me immune to combat? ==

No. The '''15-minute''' protection prevents a new Realm siege or plant. Ordinary combat still follows the area's normal rules.

Breaking an enemy flag while your control is damaged does not instantly protect the region. Refill to 100% after that flagged attack. Refilling a siege that never planted a flag does not grant this protection.

== What does Claimed by The Darkness mean? ==

It is the display for an unclaimed safe location. It does not mean there is a rival team called The Darkness that you can defeat to capture it. '''Sanctuary · your influence sleeps''' means your current location blocks Realm influence.

== Why did my flag break? ==

Check the attempt's recorded events under '''My campaign → History → View attempt''', when the result is available.

Common causes are the original planter dying, the flag team being absent, the claim remaining at zero while outnumbered, or defenders recovering to 100%. A successful plant spends its flag even when the attempt fails. Unused flags in your Bag are kept through death.

== Why have I not earned another flag? ==

# Confirm you are opted in and able to earn, alive, wearing a working updated HUD, and in '''Uphill''', the current qualifying system-land location.
# Check your Discord verification for system-land rewards.
# Allow the roughly five-minute checks to confirm your time.
# Check whether you have earned two flags today or already carry six.

The milestones are '''30''' and '''60 verified minutes total''' that SLT day. Offline time and unconfirmed gaps do not count. If your Bag was full, spend a flag and complete another successful check the same day to collect any remaining earned entitlement.

See [[Realm Domination/Flags|Flags]] for the daily boundary and what happens when you opt out and rejoin.

== Why did I not receive capture or defense help credit? ==

Capture help normally needs '''30 seconds''' of counted help during the successful planted attempt. Time spent sieging before the plant does not count toward that flag's capture assist.

Defense help normally needs '''30 seconds''' during a flagged attempt the owner survives. A defender still counted when a flag breaks because of planter death or team absence can qualify with '''20 seconds'''. Arriving at the last moment does not guarantee credit.

Quiet ownership, protection, empty Unclaimed territory, and time when you cannot count do not earn fighting time. Also allow completed results time to appear on the website.

== Why is our battle missing from Attack feed? ==

The feed shows planted flag attacks against existing owners. It excludes pre-flag sieges and flags claiming Unclaimed land. Check '''Your team's regions''' for your team's Unclaimed capture in progress.

An attack leaves the feed when its flag finishes or breaks. A delayed or unavailable feed has its own message, so do not treat that as proof no attack exists.

== Why does Lost regions still list a region we recovered? ==

It is a history of losses, not a list of territory your team currently lacks. Separate losses can give the same region several entries.

'''Region lost''' records a completed enemy capture. '''Control reached zero''' is an older record whose card explicitly says capture is not confirmed. Do not treat that old zero-control entry as the current rule for losing territory.

== The HUD and website disagree ==

Use the HUD's current state during play. Region cards normally update about every 15 seconds while that tab is active. Rankings, team historical totals, and completed history can take roughly 15 minutes to catch up. Team changes can also take a short time to appear.

# Read any delayed-information notice.
# Give the next update time to arrive.
# Use '''Try again''' if offered after a failed load.
# For an uncertain switch save, use '''Retry''' or '''Check current setting''' rather than repeatedly changing it.

'''Unavailable''' is not zero, and an error is not an empty result list.

== How do I turn off the attack sound? ==

# Open the website's '''My campaign''' tab.
# Under '''Settings''', turn '''Attack alert sound''' off.
# Wait for the saved confirmation.

This changes your Realm attack sound only. The chat alert remains, teammates keep their own choices, and your '''Take part''' setting stays as it was.

== Do I need Patreon to join? ==

No. Realm Domination is available to signed-in DoD players. Join using '''Take part''' on its website page and meet the in-world participation requirements.

== Does holding territory earn extra Essence? ==

Realm captures do not automatically pay territorial Essence or an additional activity award. Realm standings track their named measures separately; there is no combined Realm score. Normal DoD rewards continue under their usual rules.

== Can I fight alone or without my own flag? ==

An Outlaw without a Dynasty is their own Realm team and can play alone. Any eligible player can help an existing attack or defense without carrying a flag. You need a carried flag to begin '''Lay Siege''', and a successful '''Use''' spends one.

== Does hiding the bar or closing the website stop participation? ==

No. Use '''Take part''' on the website to opt out. Logging off or detaching your HUD removes your in-world influence, but does not erase that saved choice or your unused flags.

== Where can I find the other guides? ==

* [[Realm Domination|Realm Domination]]: joining, teams, and the quick start.
* [[Realm Domination/HUD Action Bar and Bag|HUD Action Bar and Bag]]: HUD controls and messages.
* [[Realm Domination/Flags|Flags]]: earning and managing flags.
* [[Realm Domination/Capturing and Defending|Capturing and Defending]]: complete battle and credit rules.
* [[Realm Domination/Website Guide|Website Guide]]: every Realm website view.
* [[Realm Domination/Complete Guide|Complete Guide]]: all topics in one document.