Image Designer Archive
Thread: Thoughts on an ID function beyond cosmetics.
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ColtFA
Sun Feb 15, 2004 9:46 pm
#1
Just my thought on a useful function to make visiting a friendly ID more desireable for a broader range of players.
Make ID'ing migrate all Faction towards 0. Just for RP's sake, if friends/enemies don't recognize you, they can't love/hate you the same.
Assigning different changes will have different effects on the "migration". For instance, changing your hair would have less of an effect than changing your entire face. Much like stat migration, it should take a time period for the migration to complete, naturally with a cap on how much will migrate at once (perhaps relative to the ID'ers skills). A period of about 3 days, with daily visits, perhaps could achieve an "NPC Faction Reset", with the proper changes.
The cost of doing this would of course pull your positive faction down at the same time.
Why? As a handy method of reducing your negative factions. Most of us HATE negative faction that crops up over time from aggro npc's, bugs, and accidents. Many times it'll snowball into a full blown -5000. Having a method to assist in reducing this would be desireable as an ID, and as a customer. I don't think this would be unbalancing, as it's not really giving a player anything, just easing the negative effects of gameplay through a useful service, and at the cost of positive faction.
I've toyed with the idea of it not affecting Imp/Reb faction. These faction points are hard-earned and intentional, which makes their value much, much higher than say, losing +5k Janta faction.. making an all faction migration towards 0 VERY Undesireable. On the other hand, if someone wanted to "convert", this would be a handy tool in speeding the process. The problem lies there, in suggesting seperate methods for NPC and GCW faction. I'll leave that for discussion.
Make ID'ing migrate all Faction towards 0. Just for RP's sake, if friends/enemies don't recognize you, they can't love/hate you the same.
Assigning different changes will have different effects on the "migration". For instance, changing your hair would have less of an effect than changing your entire face. Much like stat migration, it should take a time period for the migration to complete, naturally with a cap on how much will migrate at once (perhaps relative to the ID'ers skills). A period of about 3 days, with daily visits, perhaps could achieve an "NPC Faction Reset", with the proper changes.
The cost of doing this would of course pull your positive faction down at the same time.
Why? As a handy method of reducing your negative factions. Most of us HATE negative faction that crops up over time from aggro npc's, bugs, and accidents. Many times it'll snowball into a full blown -5000. Having a method to assist in reducing this would be desireable as an ID, and as a customer. I don't think this would be unbalancing, as it's not really giving a player anything, just easing the negative effects of gameplay through a useful service, and at the cost of positive faction.
I've toyed with the idea of it not affecting Imp/Reb faction. These faction points are hard-earned and intentional, which makes their value much, much higher than say, losing +5k Janta faction.. making an all faction migration towards 0 VERY Undesireable. On the other hand, if someone wanted to "convert", this would be a handy tool in speeding the process. The problem lies there, in suggesting seperate methods for NPC and GCW faction. I'll leave that for discussion.
mh307
Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:28 pm
#2
thats actualy the one funtional idea beyond buffs that i would agree with
good job
/bump to the top for a well thought out idea
and a 5star while im at it
-Biana
valubo
Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:17 am
#3
Great idea! Make ID useful!
I had another idea which I posted a few days ago: ID should be able to remove TEF and possibly lower the 'visibility' that causes jedi characters to have bounties placed on them.
I had another idea which I posted a few days ago: ID should be able to remove TEF and possibly lower the 'visibility' that causes jedi characters to have bounties placed on them.
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