Apparently I woke up today to find that I can no longer control who owns any of the villages anymore. Im thinking it has something to do with being rank 8. I just woke up to find no-one in rank 9+ so technically the faction by default holds the villages? I haven't tried joining a server to see if it still says I hold it as a bug. But when I try to transfer from the village I supposedly own, it doesn't appear.
The villages are still blue so my Faction still owns them. But I can't transfer any troops or gold out of any of the villages, or set who owns them. This is such a pain.