Player Associations Archive

Let me start by saying, yes I did get this idea from EQ2. I am trying to expand a bit on it to make it fit for SWG though.

I highlighted the parts that pertain to PAs.

Imagin this. You help out the authorities of Mos Esily a lot. You've taken a bunch of quests for them, leading up to a climatic last quest where you have to arrest a powerful NPC by going into his base (mini spawn or dungeon) and fighting your way thorugh. You've recieved your awards and your faction. Howerver, that's just the begining. You now have a new title, "Mos Eisly Sergeant." Now that you have all of that it's time for the fun to begin. From now on low level thigs in Mos Esily will flee from you. Random NPC officers will come ask for your help. And you'll have access to a Officer HQ with special missions.However, not all is good for you. The crime lord you busted had friends, and now you have enamies. Random spawns will attack you, trying to get revenge for their old pal.You'll always be on the lookout for them. But, upon capturing them you'll get your name mentioned in the Mos Eisly Times (a newspaper terminal throughout Eisly)

Sound good? How about this one?

You've been a rebel for a few months now. After hard work you've reached the rank of Commander. You now get a reward (although a quest should be first, explained below). You also now have the option to toggle the Cmdr. prefix. While on, all rebels (everyone if overt)will see you as Cmdr. [Insert name here]. Also low level Rebels will ask for your help. Low level Imps will run. Imperial BHs can track you now for the reward on your head. And you will be able to talk to certain rebel NPCs that you couldn't before. As you gain in ranks you will be able to access more and more will ask for help or run from you depeding on who they are. You will gain new prefixes and possably more access rights.

Ok, one last one.

So how's that all sound to you? Good? Bad? Now let me explain what it all means.

The first example is a personal version of the prominence system. You would be able to take on missions for a certain group. These would be like theme parks only with scaled chalanges, getting to be very hard. At the end of them you would have the choice to accept an inventation to join a special faction. These would not be part of the normal GCW factions.If you accept you would get a special title to put on your character. Additionaly you would have access to a new terminal based on teh faction you just joined. These would most likely be regular missions, but with a higher pay-out rate. You would also get prominence. What this means is npcs who are based off of the same faction will come asking for aid while lower level people from the oppisite would run away in fear. Finally, higher level npcs will try to kill you out of your reputation.

This could also create a battle system. This would be a system where a player could pick another player from an opposed faction. When the two players meet they will have TEFs on eachother regardless of if they both have chosen eachother. The "chosen" will be notified within a day of the choice. When some one is chosen neither him nor the person who chose him can put the other on their friends list.

You would be able to gain more than one faction. However, you could not gain two that were opposed. You could not become a Mos Eisly Officer and a Mos Eisly Crime Lord.

The second example was from the GCW part of the prominence system. Using this system would change GCW a bit. First off all, to gain ranks will require small to large quests depending on the rank attained. As you gain in ranks you will gain different prefixs to toggle onto your name. You will also be allowed to talk to new NPCs or just get higher missins from them. There would also be a lot of ways that it would act the same as the personal version, such as getting prominence. Also to represent your advancement you would get a special uniform with a rank insignia and medals.

Instead of a player battle system BHs from a faction could gain missions on opposing faction members. The pay-out would depend on the hunteds rank. I'm not sure exactly how it would break down but probably around 25,000-200,000 based on rank. If the BH kills the player then the player loses all faction privlages for 24 hours and 50FP per rank. Faction privlages, umong other things, would include faction missions.

If implemented I would ask for a few extra ranks, which would allow us to become up to Generals.

Wow. I didn't think it would be that long when I started. I suppose looking over this that it would actualy require a whole expansion to implement. Oh well it was fun writing it. So everyone tell me what you think. I could use feedback be it good, bad, or cinfused. Just don't post pure hate here. Constructive cirtisim only.