Faction Territory
When NPCs and such are released, or at least when enemy ships and friendly ships are released and flying around, there should be a system that divvies up territory between them and causes interactions based on their relations.
For example, 'Honorable Engineers' start as friendly towards the player, and have a few territories on X planet which have patrols of their ships and their own stations (where players can trade); however, they are unreconcilable with the 'Dastardly Pirates' who have a few territories that border them. These pirates often send attacks towards the Engineers in an attempt to steal territory, who defend with their Patrols.
The player would also have their own set of territory, which they get on faction creation in unclaimed land, and have similar features. Players can build whatever they want, but their territory has to be guarded against anyone who is hostile with them. For balance purposes, the raiders would send a warning message of some kind, or a war-cry, saying that they'll be attacking either 'soon' or at Y time.
This would be something that only applies to planets, as space is much looser in land and stations, though a different system could be applied to space if needed.
Don't know if you guys would be interested, but I think it'd be really fun.
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With territories comes the need for many other features to compliment the idea.
Such as:
travel guides, detailed faction relationships, border patrols, supply lines, communication lines(not chat), defence and incursion strategies, inter faction commerce, espionage, differentiated tech trees.
An always neutral planetoid(Moon sized) would be a good idea for small factions to start on, but not thrive.
With territories comes the need for many other features to compliment the idea.
Such as:
travel guides, detailed faction relationships, border patrols, supply lines, communication lines(not chat), defence and incursion strategies, inter faction commerce, espionage, differentiated tech trees.
An always neutral planetoid(Moon sized) would be a good idea for small factions to start on, but not thrive.
An interesting idea, though it will require care if you want players controlling territory.
-Players can't be on all the time to man a patrol, so they'd need to hire npcs or manufacture drones capable of doing the job while they are offline. If they hire npcs then care will be needed to ensure they aren't just using the hires to spawn farmable supplies in to the world (had a player do that in a world I ran after they realized one of the prints accidentally had 1100 uranium in one of the reactors).
-Players would need some manner of protection from hostiles intentionally targeting their off hours for attacks. (Offline grinder-monkeys are a blight on SE)
-Attackers would need some way to do something about offline protections if a target's response to an incoming attackers warning was to logout in order to abuse the offline protection. (Had to deal with this too, people would hear an explosion or gunshot, alt-f4 out, and then immediately ping a game-admin on discord to complain about "a friend telling them they were being attacked while offline")
An interesting idea, though it will require care if you want players controlling territory.
-Players can't be on all the time to man a patrol, so they'd need to hire npcs or manufacture drones capable of doing the job while they are offline. If they hire npcs then care will be needed to ensure they aren't just using the hires to spawn farmable supplies in to the world (had a player do that in a world I ran after they realized one of the prints accidentally had 1100 uranium in one of the reactors).
-Players would need some manner of protection from hostiles intentionally targeting their off hours for attacks. (Offline grinder-monkeys are a blight on SE)
-Attackers would need some way to do something about offline protections if a target's response to an incoming attackers warning was to logout in order to abuse the offline protection. (Had to deal with this too, people would hear an explosion or gunshot, alt-f4 out, and then immediately ping a game-admin on discord to complain about "a friend telling them they were being attacked while offline")
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