Factions is not offline, there is a corrupted chunk at warp wild causing everyone to instantly lag out. It is currently being worked on and will fixed asap.
^ What Joel said is very true. Not to mention the fact that this has happened on multiple other servers and Collin had to personally hire someone to programme a fix to this. It's not like he can just click and button and POOF problem solved. Have some patience.
I say that because I was really pissed when Collin messed up empires. He said that he would compensate us a long time ago, but I bet that's never gonna happen. And I bet empires isn't even working right now I have given up on minetime. There are too many hackers (not the people using the modded clients, I mean people who dos and just try to ruin everyone else), the devs do almost nothing and the servers are poorly run, clearly lacking chat mods. Maybe I am wrong, maybe **** has changed over the past months, but **** I put up a lot of **** before that