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Bartosz:
Hey good people,

As the changes to the faction system are inevitable (that's what we all should agree upon), we're thinking about different things that we should tackle.

One of them (and the one this thread will be about, I also hope to spawn a 'series' of such threads) are faction rights. Current system is artificial, and not useful, we need something better, but also simple and customizable. I'd like to hear the ideas here, but would be good to have them well described (better have few good posts here, than a wave of free and uncontrolled discussion).

The first thing that came to my mind when I was thinking about it, was a way to create customizable faction ranks. So that each faction could create as many ranks as they need (depending on the size of their structures). But each of that rank, to be meaningful, should carry on more information that it does now (value describing that one rank is lower/higher than other).
That's why I thought to allow those ranks to be built from 'rights' - a single piece that means 'you can do something'. Those rights would be following:

* Invite
* Expel
* Access to base X - access to base identified as X
* Grant X - allows player to give other the rank X
Then, imagine we've got hypothetical faction with 2 bases, they could arrange their structures as following (list of ranks with rights):

* 'Recruit': Access base 1
* 'Member': Access base 1, Access base 2, Invite, Grant 'Member'
* 'Leader': Access base 1, Access base 2, Invite, Expel, Grant 'Member', Grant 'Leader'
And a sidenote: I do hope we're gonna introduce changes to faction system as soon as possible, but please bear with the fact that it might not happen soon!

Archangel:
I think resources should always be accessible by all gang members, they are in that faction and if they shouldn't be allowed to get them simply they don't should be added to faction. Maybe could useful if members (not recruits) could have some "private locker" only accessible by that member: he should have to use the terminal "Miscellaneous" ----> "Select personal locker" ----> "Locker 1-2-3..." . If they are already in use, the locker can't be used. To allow everyone to have at least one locker, each base should have an "All members and recruits locker" usable by every gang mate. I.e, in cave base the first locker is free for all members and others not. This way "traitors" couldn't make base robbing.

The ranks, for me, could be very fun to play if the rank could allow the player to make some special dialogues.
NPC could talk with him in a different way based on rank, for exemple a Leader could speak with BOS patrols identifying him as faction leader using a dialogue.
This way the leader could speak to non-hostile NPC members of other facions to make an alliance with that faction and could have access to some place where they can get Faction points for all of his gang mates. After have gained... 1000 points, by
trading and doing quests, one time per month ONE NPC of this faction could be along the gang in TC, appering close to the leader during TC, with full gear and guns.

The "Members" could speak on encounters to them after a Charisma check and be able to increase the gang reputation with the faction, by killing the faction adversaries on WP, like killing mutants when he find them battling BOS Patrol. Recruit can't speak with them.
The more gang reputation is higher with faction, the more Faction points can be gained in one time by gang leader.

If the gang increases to... 1000 his reputation, NPC allied could protect him if he's attacked by a player on WP, but only if he doesen't shoot first.

avv:
It was very good idea to make this initiative.


--- Quote from: scypior on June 18, 2011, 02:44:15 PM ---
* Invite
* Expel
* Access to X - access to resource identified as X
* Grant X - allows player to give other the rank X
Then, imagine we've got hypothetical faction with 2 bases, they could arrange their structures as following (list of ranks with rights):

* 'Recruit': Access base 1
* 'Member': Access base 1, Access base 2, Invite, Grant 'Member'
* 'Leader': Access base 1, Access base 2, Invite, Expel, Grant 'Member', Grant 'Leader'
--- End quote ---

Sounds very good. Multiple bases for gangs makes things much easier.

Players who are set as faction friends should be protected by town militia, but cannot activate it.
High ranking players should be able to instantly tag enemies or friends of faction in the field. It's tiresome to travel to the base and add the names in terminal, especially when it's some difficult name you have to dig it from meslogs.
At some point a common information bulletin accessible by all members everywhere through pip boy would be nice. Otherwise players just use mumble, irc or forums. In this bulleting players could make notes about general info. The faction terminal could actually exist in every member's pip boy.


--- Quote ---The ranks, for me, could be very fun to play if the rank could allow the player to make some special dialogues.
--- End quote ---

Not very practical since most faction leaders are shared dummy accounts and can't see any way to change that, except to have shared leadership between multiple players. And if the dialogues were beneficial, the faction would make leaders from all its chars.

kttdestroyer:
I think containers are good thing, if one could limit access to a specific container only for specific part of the team it would be great :)

Cars are also valuble: An idea could be also, to make a base have a car parking next to it (maybe world map, one base and very close to it a car parking) where there would also be possibility to allow only choosen people to use the cars :)

Tents: I think a command to add people to tents/remove. Would be very usefull aswell, then ofcourse if you want to remove someone you will have to kill him in tent i guess :) (Or even better, kill him anywhere, so if you know someone has access, you can track them down and kill em, great for roleplay - player vs player scenarios).

Lockers are limited: There is however problem with space limit for lockers then, which could be solved with Rooms? Most of the bases got houses with doors, so many doors could be locked instead of containers (or just make the containers that are supposed to be limited, without capacity limit or higher it few times at least, or make them 2 or 3 as a group lockers).

Location of Bases: I think a good idea could be to allow players send distresses in bases, so they dont need to show the way to people, which often ends up just annoying and a lot of relloging. (ofcourse, if someone aquires the signal, he could come inside the base, but wont see it when distress disapears)

A far wish of Faction relation system: I wish that there was an extended faction vs faction reputation system just like between NPC factions and players. This would effectivize the militia slightly (might then be no need for super duper militia like now). If name colourizing is back, it would also be a lot easier to see who is enemy who not. Same goes with mercs behaivour and slaves AND usefull versus NPC aswell. I think its a good idea for a faction to allow them have a war with NCR for exemple, and if they want peace, then they have to pay them. State of war between NPC and Player factions could allow the members of NPC faction to attack the player factions, ofcrouse if relations between that NPC faction and the town the fight is happening in are good, and NPC factions wins capturing the town, they might hold it for few days and then give back control to the past owners (NCR is pretty specific here i think, as they earn more on doing trade with towns then owning them). Other NPC factions could react diffrently i think, specific for their "lore", like BoS, they shouldint hold anything. Enclave should extrerminate. VC maybe enslave and drain all the resources before leaving. Raiders could just raid without capturing, which would give them caps by each civilian killed and so on and so on...  8)

Crazy:

--- Quote from: scypior on June 18, 2011, 02:44:15 PM ---The first thing that came to my mind when I was thinking about it, was a way to create customizable faction ranks. So that each faction could create as many ranks as they need (depending on the size of their structures). But each of that rank, to be meaningful, should carry on more information that it does now (value describing that one rank is lower/higher than other).
--- End quote ---

That sounds perfect, it's one of the things we need. With the ability to choose the location of your base.



--- Quote from: scypior on June 18, 2011, 02:44:15 PM ---That's why I thought to allow those ranks to be built from 'rights' - a single piece that means 'you can do something'. Those rights would be following:

* Invite
* Expel
* Access to X - access to resource identified as X
* Grant X - allows player to give other the rank X
--- End quote ---

There should be also

* Access to base X
* Grant to base X - access and allow to give access
* Delete a right

--- Quote ---Cars are also valuble: An idea could be also, to make a base have a car parking next to it (maybe world map, one base and very close to it a car parking) where there would also be possibility to allow only choosen people to use the cars :)
--- End quote ---
I agree. Ability to expand your parking can be good also, because we ended up with some "parking base" because we didn't had enough parking spots.




--- Quote ---Location of Bases: I think a good idea could be to allow players send distresses in bases, so they dont need to show the way to people, which often ends up just annoying and a lot of relloging. (ofcourse, if someone aquires the signal, he could come inside the base, but wont see it when distress disapears)
--- End quote ---
I don't agree, first can it can be dangerous to bring people in your base because of that, but also cause the signal won't diseappear (it won't as long the location is active).



It is great to see the faction system is finally reworked :D

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