Tactical Faction Manager is a community management tool oriented CMS for sandbox games.
EdTFM is a declination oriented towards Elite Dangerous developed by Frontier Development. It was developed for the LOSP by Commander Kalhaan and then shared with the French community.
The current version is a website that communicates with the game via EDMC and the EDSM API. It works on both pc and mobile. It offers a guild environment that helps to strengthen the sense of community.
EdTfm allows you to create articles organized into categories, news (related to your Discord), illustrative bookmarks ( with images, sounds, videos ...) or a group diary.
Specifically to Elite Dangerous, the tool allows you to create and share interactive content for members of your group and of your allies.
Contracts :
The system is currently optimized for background simulation (but can use for another things) and allows strategists to define policy strategies and apply them to the systems they administer.
These strategies, according to the results of readings of the influences and states of the factions, will generate contracts for the players. These contracts bring back experience that drives up a player's progress with your faction.
Contracts and politics are fully configurables and offer to the managers lot of liberty.
Operations :
The system also allows you to create "Operations", which are similar to community objectives and are shared for your group, your allies or the entire EDTFM community. Whether you're applying for BGS support, role play or any other reason, you can now share your activities with other groups.
If players not in your group participate, they gain reputation from you and make it win for their group, otherwise they gain experience for their internal rank.
Adventures:
Adventures are complete stories created by the players with a node interface that allows to make complex sequences and to propose different purposes. Players win items (created from scratch by players / editors) and experience points.
It also offers a lot of tools for players: a logbook, bookmarks, a biography, wish lists (engineers and brokers) statistics, trophies etc ...
EdTfm has been used for almost a year by a large part of the French-speaking PC community. We currently have more than 600 beta testers.
I am finishing the English translation. I would like to have how many bands would be interested and if it is useful for me to make an international version.
If there are enough interested groups we will share with the international community.
To see more, here is a french Video from Cmdr Aymerix :
[video=youtube_share;RQiCkvudmEg]https://youtu.be/RQiCkvudmEg[/video]
Preview about a full integrated version (Q2 2019) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlPuCTqEGPQ