Alignment
Posted: 23 Jun 2010 17:16
Haha, I love to spam you with all this wonderful threads!
This one is going about the alignment, and why I think it's bullshit.
First of all, it sucks because it doesn't reflect the reality (you can be holy knight and yet a bad person) nor the way of gaining it makes much sense.
My idea is to remove alignment entirely and introduce faction standings instead. This would make more sense in my eyes and could be a lot of fun.
This is how I see how it would work:
Some areas (not all as it's not necessary to have it everywhere) would have 2 or more 'factions', some of them opposing each other (Takhisis and Paladine or Free Peoples and Mordor for example).
You could increase your standing with given faction with quests, special tasks or by killing the select few key NPCs (note however that killing this NPCs would make your standing increase extremely slowly as opposed to the tasks and quests).
If your standing with a faction would increase, and it has an opposing faction, it would automatically decrease for the opposing faction for the same amount.
Guilds would require certain standing with a given faction instead of alignment level, the same could be implemented for items that require certain alignment to use.
Some other things that could be implemented:
When your standing with certain faction would drop to some levels, you would be auto-attacked by this faction's NPCs, denied services in banks/shops, boat rides etc.
And when it would be high enough, perhaps you could get a discount for the services?
What do you think?
This one is going about the alignment, and why I think it's bullshit.
First of all, it sucks because it doesn't reflect the reality (you can be holy knight and yet a bad person) nor the way of gaining it makes much sense.
My idea is to remove alignment entirely and introduce faction standings instead. This would make more sense in my eyes and could be a lot of fun.
This is how I see how it would work:
Some areas (not all as it's not necessary to have it everywhere) would have 2 or more 'factions', some of them opposing each other (Takhisis and Paladine or Free Peoples and Mordor for example).
You could increase your standing with given faction with quests, special tasks or by killing the select few key NPCs (note however that killing this NPCs would make your standing increase extremely slowly as opposed to the tasks and quests).
If your standing with a faction would increase, and it has an opposing faction, it would automatically decrease for the opposing faction for the same amount.
Guilds would require certain standing with a given faction instead of alignment level, the same could be implemented for items that require certain alignment to use.
Some other things that could be implemented:
When your standing with certain faction would drop to some levels, you would be auto-attacked by this faction's NPCs, denied services in banks/shops, boat rides etc.
And when it would be high enough, perhaps you could get a discount for the services?
What do you think?