Factions locked?

[sigundo]

Are factions locked in on this server? E.G. Evil will always be evil?. Not having any luck anywhere. It starts out ok,although much slower than classic, but then freezes at glares. Tried Janam and Rebby 4x normal (classic eq) and 2x for minotaurs for steamfont warrior faction and it just wont go to non-KOS.

Saw an iksar and troll in Freeport, but didn't have time to check level, maybe they were just so high the guards wouldn't attack. If there is no hope, just as soon reroll and be really evil if I have to be, but really prefer playing an Ogre, a good one and having access to many more quests.

Not as into dungeons, raiding, etc as I only have so much time to play, and even then am a casual player. Factioning was my big joy in the original EQ until they screwed up the game in the name of graphics. If anybody has successfully gotten evil races into the good cities please let me know (you don't even have to say HOW, long as I know its possible its good enough).