Squads, divisions, outfits - Subgroups of factions

Deon Beauchamp shared this feedback ago

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Identity for sub divisions of factions would be useful for hierarchy and role/purpose within faction.

It would set for friendly competitiveness inside of a faction.

It could demonstrate a difference between security/police and say dock workers or repair technicians.

Different sub-groups could have differences in access.

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Deon Beauchamp ●

It could clarify comms channels too by including the group name with messaging.

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Semtex ●

Do you seriously think the SE universe will ever become an MMORPG-style world?

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Deon Beauchamp ●

The idea can apply equally to NPC characters.

SE1 can accommodate 20 players on a server, a squad could be as little as 3 players, where is the problem ?

In terms of MMO, I have no idea when Multiplayer crosses the line into Massive Multiplayer.

From a brief search into what player count constitutes an MMO I would guess that the number has to be quite high and in most cases spans across several world zones and many instances. I think that if SE2 ever manges to allow over 100 players in a single world, this still will not constitute an MMO, but clearly having a hundred players would require some organisational differentiation beyond simply having factions.

In terms of being serious, I am optimistic for both multiplayer and NPC character development. To put shackles on a simple, low overhead idea whilst the game is still in alpha may be overly cautious.

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Steve ●

I have never seen a server with enough active players to make this worth anything. Factions have owner, and leaders. Maybe a roll for member and something akin to 'pleeb'.. essentially a newbie to the faction that doesn't have full rights to faction-owned grids.

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Deon Beauchamp ●

I have not seen an SE2 server yet either, have you ? SE1 has only recently started to explore the use of NPC characters in a limited way. If you want to add limits now before anyone has had a chance at seeing how far SE2 can be pushed, then you must be happy with the constraints that SE1 has for both multiplayer numbers and NPC characters. I know that I am being optimistic here and could be disappointed in the future, but I would rather be optimistic now, than be limited by what was, and instead dream of what could be.

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