The town wouldn't have an official faction allegiance, but I do like the idea of having different areas favor one faction or the other. There could also be ongoing events where one faction or the other gets more sway over the town, causing some differences in policies, pricing, goods and services available, etc. to give people incentive to support one or the other due to how it's affecting their town life.Acarin wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 8:13 pmThe biggest concern that I would have is that part of the original concept forced people to choose a faction and felt like it would work because no one could remain neutral... so everyone was impacted and people all make a choice... that does not seem to be the case with this idea. Did you have any thoughts here? I assume that this "faction" influence would be independent of the town government itself so I feel like this type of conflict could be less impactful and make most favor neutrality.
I'm with you - I want to discourage people sitting on the fence and playing the "I'm neutral and refuse to get involved" card. I think we can come up with some ways to encourage people to pick a side without keeping them isolated from each other across the map. Irylia and Ocayucos have given some ideas.
Right, the idea is for these factions to be driving forces in the various events that go on in the world. Results of events could be pushed this way or that depending on which faction's members put in the most effort. If someone isn't in one of these influential factions, they're going to have a lot less sway in how things go. This isn't to say that I expect all members of a faction to always agree on everything, but they're a gret way to consolidate the majority opinion and put it into action.
True. It could literally be a choice players have to make from the beginning in character creation. This may happen once we feel things out a bit and get the factions themselves more established and hammered out.
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This kind of thing is the idea. The factions definitely won't be allowing access or giving way to people who haven't chosen a side.
This might be a good idea for the first character created on a new account.