Campaigns into Enemy Territory for Faction Reputation

[ManUtd4Ever]

I've been thinking about faction reputation, which I know was a topic of discussion several months ago, and thought I'd float an idea for consideration.

As we all know one way of adding to your reputation is to "capture" the flag of an adversary. Currently, it is not possible to capture more than one flag at a time... and there is also a cool down period between "captures." Nevertheless, each flag is worth 15, 20, 25, etc... points depending on the adversary's strength.

Here is the idea - Is it possible to allow for "campaigns" into enemy territory in where a PC captures each flag - in order - and is allowed to turn the whole lot in for additional reputation points?

For example, say I enter Viridale with a party and I capture the Goblin, Gnoll, Orc, and Orge flags as part of a campaign into the forest. Instead of receiving 15 - 25 points for each flag (with cool down periods between each capture), I can now collect all four flags and turn them in at one time to receive additional points, say 100 points for all four (not for each). The catch is that I would have to capture them in order so that I could possess more than one flag.

Anyone?


Cheers!

[Kaeldorn]

Not so fond of the idea.. Grinding for reputation is already too easy as it is.

[ManUtd4Ever]

Grinding for reputation is already too easy as it is.

Really? How so?

[Jhickey]

I want to know the answer to this as well.

[Dragor]

Yes indeed I've always found it an insane pain in the ass

[Saulus]

You grind your eyes out for gold etc, then use it to donate to get rep.

In fact it's literally such a problem we have to not only change that but also increase the ranks for a lot of factions because people who have no business being a certain rank are getting it through grinding gold and not doing a fuck of a lot else for the faction.

[Raksha]

I might suggest that the solution for that is to cut the donated amount, or give it a weekly cap. The increased reputation amounts have seemingly made it very difficult to get anywhere -- even through events -- without also donating a lot. Banner captures are also tiny.

I'd also note that a lot of the people donating are probably doing so out of a desire to help their faction, but because they're not finding much else going in the way of systems and events. ^_^ Whether that's actually true, and whether they're looking in the right places, is a matter for interpretation.

So I'm in favor of this, and likewise in favor of cutting the contribution of gold. Replace grinding with... well, at least, a more narrative form of grinding.

[Darkened Skies]

If we massively cut down the amount of rep that can be gained from donations then other methods might become a possibility, but for now there's too many high ranking people running around.

We'll discuss this amongst the staff and revisit the issue later when a conclusion has been reached. Thanks all for your input

[ManUtd4Ever]

We'll discuss this amongst the staff and revisit the issue later when a conclusion has been reached. Thanks all for your input

Thank you! I appreciate the consideration... regardless of the outcome.

Cheers!

[GRCrush]

I would like to point out that it makes near zero sense for factions like the eboncoin to even capture flags. and far more sense for us to donate earnings to the family for rep.

Granted I would appreciate better ways to gain rep that better reflected each faction then simply grinding gold. I have a few ideas involving jobs/quest for the EC such as drug smuggling or a pick pocket quota a marked target etc... I am sure other factions could come up with similiar. This all of course requires scripting and I am sure the devs have plenty of stuff on the plates already

[Darkened Skies]

Whoops, meant to close the thread after my last comment. No offense to all you guys giving valuable input, but it's confusing for the staff to be having this conversation twice!