Err, Roleplay or what ?

[Yngen]

It would be modding work to make a reputation requirement for each ship, like weapons. I don't know how much work it would be...but in the end all you are doing is making it slightly more difficult to play the mix and match game with your ship/equipment and reputation. Even now some people (not all of them new to disco,) go to extraordinary lengths to aquire powerful but inappropriate weapons for their characters. Multiple bribes followed by killing off of canceling missions of the faction you just bribed...killing hundreds and hundreds of NPCs just to blast off one of their guns in a ridiculous effort to make power gaming weaponization seem RP appropriate...elaborite stories contrived with the sole purpose of justifying ones favorite ship/faction/weapons. Make ships more attatched to reputation and you'll just see more of the same.

An even more drastic suggestion than what fwolf suggests is making reputation so difficult to change in game that they become virtually static (its impossible I think to eliminate reputation flux.) Then create a nexus system where a player must choose a faction that their character will be tied to irrevocably. Put all the appropriate ships and weapons on the right bases and boom, you have your ship selections made for the player.

And yes, this makes faction creation and variation very much more limited than what we see on Discovery today. Discovery affords a great amount of liberty to a creative player. We see many good ideas here that would not work in a limited system like what we are talking about. If we want such color in our games as we see today we have to regulate the abusers the old-fashioned way.

So the old questions persist if we leave Disco free: "When does creativity turn to power gaming.? When do RP rules kill the RP?"

Its a matter of community opinion when we answer these questions. When has a player gone too far, and why? We know some of these players have inappropriate reps, ships, equipment because they don't know any better. But others have carefully crafted their characters while pushing the RP envelope. What some of us think is inappropriate might be perfectly logical to others. We must discriminate between the two types of player, and deal with them accordingly.

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