Admin Note: Faction right #5

[ophidian]

Diplomatic game dynamics of factions and groups are not being implemented to the core game, we usually have our IDs and its stated enemies and friends.

I would prefer to have dynamic ID changes with diplomatic agreements of players deciding on events rather than a dev team / admin team / Igiss picking which faction to love which. This kills the dynamics of being in political dialogues. After all, it all turns out to be "not important what you do" kinda thing, which makes it look like a single player campaign with intelligent NPCs wandering around.


Regarding the rule;

I am not against it, I am not supporting it. I have to see how it goes. I guess, design wise, something that makes the people follow diplomatic and such channels would be way better but I sincerely don't have a solution for that at this moment.

As Tommy suggested, changing the affilliation and hostility works perfectly in RP situations like rebellions etc. Afterall, if you rebel, then you are a target. Though depending on the depth of RP involved, that hostility thing can vary like "What if LSF made the Order wing go rebel"? That requires an IFF change in favor of LSF as well at least to neutrality. Then this goes out of the borders of this rule. And if the Order player still shows hostile to the LSF as well as to the Order, how will they dock or repair or... you know, live?

Game dynamics are somewhat limited to the possibilities the game universe presents. Like the ID stating hostile / friendly while in reality things are different and so.

Even though I support any and all ideas that evolve and elevate the RP quality of the server, I also hope that the brainstorming leans towards how to increase the adaptabilitiy of player interractions to the game universe rather than player sanctions being adaptable to game universe.

The rule 5 is somewhere in the middle of this two it seems.

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