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Jun-13-2004 12:35

Panthera walks away shaking her head. She's very disappointed in the way the skills are given out.

Jun-14-2004 09:50

Well, Wayne people who aren't in agencies won't know if it's worth the trouble to go for all the skills since they won't know what they're about until they get in with the various fractions - at least for the favours we knew which were the good contacts to get.

Ben, would that mean we could reset the standings ourselves at any time we wanted to - not just start over once?

Jun-14-2004 09:53

Well, Greyling, none of my members have told me what the Pick Pocketing skill is about, but I have still decided to go for DA to buy that skill.

Jun-14-2004 10:00

And you'll have help getting there too, right? ;)

Jun-14-2004 10:03

I may, or I may not. For all you know, being the obnoxious person I am, perhaps all my members hate me so much, I won't be getting no help from them? Who knows? :P

Jun-14-2004 10:04

*lol* :D

Jun-14-2004 11:46

Having an option to reset your political standings to zero sounds like it would make switching factions much easier. Those Order guys are getting on my nerves anyway.

Jun-14-2004 11:54

Sleuth Admin:

I hope you don't mean reseting at an instantaneous, like pushing a "reset button" kind of thing. If that is what you mean, then I do NOT support it.

That will be too aritificial. How can your faction affliation be adjusted at a whim? It does not fit logically, in terms of the storyline.

Maybe what should be changed is to allow the "decay" to drop (or rise) to 0, and not stop at +10 or -10.

Jun-14-2004 12:48

i could use the brother hood. the house is a bit annoying always smelling like smoke

Jun-14-2004 17:04

I agree with Wayne. The affiliation should just drop to zero after a while, but a reset button would make it too easy.

Jun-15-2004 08:34

I'd like to support Wayne's view - I'm perfectly happy with the way things turned out, and feel content in the knowledge that I'll not run out of things to do in the near future. For me, this was not anticlimactic at all - even though I'm not high enough in ANY faction right now to purchase skills.

About resetting your factions - as such, it is a good idea, but it is true that finding a storyline to justify it could get slightly tricky. I suppose a character could knowingly betray their faction and drop from good standing not only to zero, but to a negative position? Plotwise, this is the best suggestion I can come up with right now.