Splinter Factions

Elagneros · Post by **Elagneros** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:42 pm

P. Fricebottle wrote:Is that your first post ever that you linked to Elagneros?

It might be.

lord_modred · Post by **lord_modred** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:08 am

elag, the point is, there are no advantages! you loose any bonus from your faction jobs(although there might be jobs to replace those) you get nothing from relics, ever. you have no allies, you are extreamly limited as to what kinds of characters you can make. you loose your faction merchants. and you loose the ability to use any of your previous faction bind points.

the only reason to join such a faction is if you were doing it for RP purposes.

oh, and also, you wouldnt be able to join if you had taken a faction specific prestige class... forgot to mention that bit.(so no palemaster monks)

Elagneros · Post by **Elagneros** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:44 pm

lord_modred wrote:elag, the point is, there are no advantages! you loose any bonus from your faction jobs(although there might be jobs to replace those) you get nothing from relics, ever. you have no allies, you are extreamly limited as to what kinds of characters you can make. you loose your faction merchants. and you loose the ability to use any of your previous faction bind points.

the only reason to join such a faction is if you were doing it for RP purposes.

Yeah, how many people around here actually bother with RPing? I mean seriously. And if there's no advantages, I don't really see that many people being interested in it, probably not enough that the devs would bother with it.

Don't get me wrong, some of the ideas are interesting, but I'm not really convinced that we need more factions in the game.

lordvan52681 · Post by **lordvan52681** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:56 pm

actually i can name quite afew rpers. most of fon, tss, and ewoks are RPers

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:56 pm

Merrip · Post by **Merrip** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:48 pm

I must say everyone seems to have a very different opinion on this I can say that if they are getting no benifits from taken the exiles path then let them the only thing that I find bad is that players will be making toons in certain factions purposely to defaction them, in turn giving these outcast factions access to any class if they want this I feel should not be allowed! Every faction is limited to class's so should be the outcasts.

BUt yeah good idea obviously still in the brainstorming stage.

lord_modred · Post by **lord_modred** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:05 am

elag, there is a vast RP player base to NS4, just because you dont see people rp, doesnt mean they dont(maybe all of the RPers just dont like talking to you)

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:27 pm

Hey, I would have ALL of my halfling (basically all but 2 of my characters) join that Halfling Rebel Faction. Also Merrip, the Last Alliance and Ancient Ones allow all classes as well. These splinter factions would be like those two, except less allies, less bind points, and no PrC.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:25 pm

I think most Rp'rs would have shout turned off...

Cluster · Post by **Cluster** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:10 pm

btw, evenshire is a neutral rift shard, has always been neutral.

Death Dealer1 · Post by **Death Dealer1** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:42 pm

hasn't always been...was LA shard for a long time.

Elagneros · Post by **Elagneros** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:22 am

I thought it still was LA, but then I haven't bound there since we moved our HQ to NS City.

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:05 pm

Cluster wrote:btw, evenshire is a neutral rift shard, has always been neutral.

How can it be neutral and bindable to if it is HOSTILE to people from SL and a few others I can't remember (MA and AO I think)? The NPCs are hostile to people from LA, I learned from experience.

Throst54 · Post by **Throst54** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:57 pm

JesterOI wrote:I think most Rp'rs would have shout turned off...

Shout is always considered ooc, so having it on or off doesnt ness. mean they are rp'ing or not. Whether or not it's serious RP isnt really an issue either.

Elagneros · Post by **Elagneros** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:43 pm

P. Fricebottle wrote:
Cluster wrote:btw, evenshire is a neutral rift shard, has always been neutral.
How can it be neutral and bindable to if it is HOSTILE to people from SL and a few others I can't remember (MA and AO I think)? The NPCs are hostile to people from LA, I learned from experience.

Well, Evenshire has always been hostile to those three factions, but the rift shard, AFIAK is LA. Don't know if it's been changed recently. The neutral rift shards really aren't that neutral anyway except for the Avendell and Fd shards, most of them only allow certain faction to bind to them. I know the Li'norala shard allows TC and the Western Slope shard allows MA, but that's about it.