Personally, I prefer to keep the 4-5 week schedule planned in the 4.0 Patch Notes, although it has never been 4 weeks. It has been 3 weeks once to “catch up”.
- New factions will be released every 4-5 weeks
Actual:
- Early September, Version 4.0 - 2 starting factions
- Friday, 14 September 2018
- Friday, 19 October 2018 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 23 November 2018 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 28 December 2018 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 1 February 2019 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 8 March 2019 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 12 April 2019 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 17 May 2019 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 5 July 2019 (7 weeks)
- Friday, 26 July 2019 (3 weeks)
- Friday, 30 August 2019 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 4 October 2019 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 8 November 2019 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 13 December 2019 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 17 January 2020 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 21 February 2020 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 27 March 2020 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 1 May 2020 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 5 June 2020 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 24 July 2020 (7 weeks)
- Friday, 28 August 2020 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 2 October 2020 (5 weeks)
- Friday, 13 November 2020 (6 weeks) *** tentative
In June, I was looking forward to “finishing” the game after Sep 3, 2021. If this 6-week schedule is a new thing, the last (34th) faction would tentatively release on Nov 26, 2021. Perhaps the 5.3 update blurb can include an updated faction release schedule to “override” the one stated in the 4.0 notes. @Saltypatra