Allow to Join with Factions.

[Sunleader]

Right now we can go Friendly and Ultimately Allied with an Faction.
But we cannot Declare Ourselfs to be Aligned with them.


I think it should be possible to Align yourself with an Faction so your more or less Sharing their Alegiances


To Archieve this we should add 2 more Stages of Reputation only Available for Actual Factions. (So not with Empire in Total but only with one of the Empire Factions)
Which will be "Member" and "Officer"

You can only Reach Member or Officer Status with exactly one of the Factions.
For Example with Empire League (An Major Faction inside the Empire)


To Reach the Status you will need to have reached Highest Possible Reputation with that Faction.
Once you did that. You will get an Option to Join that Faction.



Joining an Faction will have the Following Effects.


1.
You will get Free Repairs and Free Fuel on all their Stations.

2.
You will partially share their Repuation which means you will be Hostile to their Enemys and Friendly to their Allys regardless of your own Repuation with the Faction.

3.
You will get an Discount on Equipment on their Stations.

4.
You will gain an Additional Reward for each Kill you Score against their Enemys.

5.
You will gain Access to Faction Specific Missions which will give you an higher Chance on High Reward Missions for this Faction. (Right now High Reward Missions are really really rare)
This will also Include Missions like "Internal Security Work" which will basicly mean to use an Cargo Scanner an Search for Wanted NPCs/Players and for Prohibitied Cargo.
(An NPC or Player Found by your Cargo Scanner with Forbidden Cargo will reward you with an part of the Fine he gets accounted with)

6.
In Contacts you will be Displayed as Member of that Faction to other Players.



Greetz

 

[Sunleader]

Hmmmm.
Nobody cares again ? ^^


I actually tought this was an Good Idea :/

 

[Narsiliel]

The free fuel and repairs is maybe a bit much, but yes for the rest.

I feel that the game needs some sort of factional warfare system to keep the pvpers happy.
The combat zones are pretty lame, and everybody joins the same side anyway so there is no PVP....

 

[Sunleader]

The free fuel and repairs is maybe a bit much, but yes for the rest.

I feel that the game needs some sort of factional warfare system to keep the pvpers happy.
The combat zones are pretty lame, and everybody joins the same side anyway so there is no PVP....

Well at least the free repairs for higher lvl sjips might be an bit much.
Free fuel is not really a matter i guess xD

 

[gmatagmis]

I was thinking to sugest something close to this idea.
A 'Concil' status above Allied with local faction, you worked hard for.
Concil status allow you to vote and see other playe's votes for futher faction actions, like where to start expansion (to take under control more bases and systems) or which main power to join (Empore/Federation/Alliance/Independed/ to be consumed by other local faction).
And gives you access to mission's to make this goal.

Agree with repair discount, and additional rewards, but dissagree with equipment discount (it can be exploited by equipment trading).

 

[Hydrino]

I like the idea in general. Discounts should be minor if included at all. The main benefit would be to drive missions and story- enemy status.

I would like the idea of enemy to be a fine one though. You may be Fed and I may be Empire but we don't have to automatically open fire on each other. There should be consequences for being first to shoot a visitor from another faction in a lawful system.

 

[Sunleader]

I like the idea in general. Discounts should be minor if included at all. The main benefit would be to drive missions and story- enemy status.

I would like the idea of enemy to be a fine one though. You may be Fed and I may be Empire but we don't have to automatically open fire on each other. There should be consequences for being first to shoot a visitor from another faction in a lawful system.

In General your Reputation doesnt Affect Bountys anyways.
So even if someone is Shown Red to you it doesnt mean you can Just shoot him.


And yes.
Its fine if the Bonusses are very minor.
They are actually done with the deeper intention of making People of an Faction actually settle down and use that Faction as Base of Operations.

The most Importand part is actually really to get the Big Missions more Regular and that your able to basicly create an Situation where your attempting to Support one Faction Specifically.

 

[wakko151]

In the Function menu, there is an option for faction. Right now it doesn't seem to do anything. I think they plan on changing that though.
Or
They plan on leaving it there to torment you.

 

[CATPAIN KIRK]

I like the idea in general. Discounts should be minor if included at all. The main benefit would be to drive missions and story- enemy status.

I would like the idea of enemy to be a fine one though. You may be Fed and I may be Empire but we don't have to automatically open fire on each other. There should be consequences for being first to shoot a visitor from another faction in a lawful system.

Wel of course - and they are there as Sunleader pointed out. Why would I shoot a fed? The Empire and the Federation have been at peace for almost a millenium. In case that should change and war should erupt between them, I'd expect that to change to galaxy wide kill on sight rights.

+1 - I like the idea.

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In the Function menu, there is an option for faction. Right now it doesn't seem to do anything. I think they plan on changing that though.
Or
They plan on leaving it there to torment you.

That's in place for conflict zones and it works.

 

[Halp]

I want more grinding.