Faction Perk Addition: Faction-specific Restarts

[aerelm]

After further discussion regarding Official Faction Perks, it was decided to add a new perk to the system:

Official factions can now request a restart template specific to their own faction, which can include a specific set of reputations, map, starting location, etc. These restarts will be not be accessible to public, and each faction restart will be password protected, with the password distributed through the leadership of that faction (similar to tag passwords). These restarts, however, cannot include any equipment of value or unreasonable reputation/map, and are only intended to ease the process of setting up new characters for members of the official factions.

Requests for faction restarts will be handled through the standard faction perk system, but unlike other perks, does not require any roleplay.

Have fun, and of course feel free to ask any questions you may have on the subject.

[sindroms]

Could the admin team subract an X amount of money from a bank character whenever the restart is used, so I can submit a restart which gives a fully decked out fighter or bomber? Or can it be coded?

EDIT: As in, I pay 500 million, calculate how much a single restart is worth and it is logged. Whenever more moneys are needed, boom.

Also, can we submit multiple templates? If the above is possible, I would like to make a LR- newbie restart, which would include a HAU I VHF.

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[Diamanten Vorposten]

Excellent work there.

[Remnant]

For now, we're going to stick with one restart per faction. Once these protected restarts are up and running, we can take a look at possibly allowing more than one.

@sindroms - Sounds doable. Dev-team would have to put their input down on that one.

[Sabru]

what is the Admin team's definition of an unreasonable rep request?

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[sindroms]

More questions.

How will the PW be set and how can it be changed? A.I via request or with a master password?
Also, will we need to create these .fl files ourselves? If so, I am totally going to offer 200mil per .fl file to other faction leaders .

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[Remnant]

what is the Admin team's definition of an unreasonable rep request?

Liberty navy being green to Liberty Rogues? - It's pretty much common sense. I don't think I need to lay out 'unreasonable'. When you make your request, the worst that can happen is it's asked to be changed.

More questions.

How will the PW be set and how can it be changed? A.I via request or with a master password?
Also, will we need to create these .fl files ourselves? If so, I am totally going to offer 200mil per .fl file to other faction leaders .

We set it, and we can change it. There is no option to do such ingame, it's something taken care by the green-team entirely.
It would make our lives easier if people made the .fl files themselves, but we don't expect that. Generally this is a 'you request, we set it up' type thing.

[sindroms]

Not trying to shoot my possible moneymaking thing in the foot right now, but since most official factions will be dealing with veteran players anyway, can't you just use a full-revealed map for the restarts? Will kinda devalue legitimately made ''exploration'' characters, but not sure.

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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[Remnant]

Full-map restarts I don't think are going to be on the list of things to come sadly.

[sindroms]

Is there a way to add other type of "Full Map" choices for the player manager? House-localized ones, I mean.
EDIT: Purely as a template for the .fl files.

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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