brainstorm for devs

[deathdearler1]

i thought we of the community could add some scripting ideas or things that we know the devs are trying to find solutions for so that they wouldn't have to wrack their brains out. i know one of these items is the reseting of the factional alliances. if anyone has a good constructive idea for this that might help them along why not list it. i personally was messing with Lilac Soul script generator and found something interesting. i found that i could generate a script that could check the journal entries for a certain text and then have an event happen. going along these lines it might be possible to "talk" to an alter or something and have the script check for your default faction since the place holders are always there. upon finding the place holder the script might be able to reset your original alliances. another thing might be to go back to the start up and repick your faction that way. just food for thought. whatcha think?

[trent]

An idea i had awhile back was .... Why not take advantage of the Jail thats in neversummer city . Not too sure if there are plans to have a jail in every city but for testing why not pretend there is . Now a char messed up and is now an outcast of L.A ... he now shouldn't receive any XP untill he fixes is standing with L.A .. in order to do that he should maybe spend a little time in jail lol for he did break a crime or 2 to get outcasted in the first place ..... just an idea

[deathdearler1]

having been trying to get my Tester mod ready for build char's i have been messing with some of the scripting a little more. seems to me that switching factions alliances would be as easy as changing the reputation to the faction. if you guys added the factions in than they surely have their own alliances and hostilities.....as it is from what i know. so all the main problem would be is making a script that changes your reputation to "X" faction +/- whatever. you could design your own items with unique powers then have them only useable by the gods. make an item for each faction then only certain gods could grant you an alliance with that faction based on the quest ideas we are looking for. the god of "x" faction could send you on a quest to prove you belong. so the hardest part would be for one of you savvy scripters to make an item that changes your faction reputation on use. when you break it down like that factional outcasting and rejoining shouldn't be that hard to figure out. you guys are way better than me and should be able to make something like this work relatively better than i could.

[TGPO]

Using the faction sysyem thats built into the toolset, yes. However, given the fact that NWNx is tied into a mySQL database, and all the variables are tracked in the database it gets a wee bit more complex. Then add in the fact that the devs scraped a good majority of the default scripts and have added in a bunch of other custom ones, a good majority of which are also tied into the db.

Lots of things appear simple on the surface, and as far as playing the game they are fairly transparent unless you know what your looking for with the changes that were made. Our attempts at resetting factions from inside the game and without being able to manipulate the db directly had some horrific side effects.

Not knocking your brain storming idea, but perhaps using the forums search function first might turn up that the answers to your questions and ideas have already been discussed or explained. Such as this one.

[DarkValthonis]

One of the key factors that i think needs to be built on is more interaction with NPCs and the actual envrioment. There are some cool things like the portal, rift shards, crafting etc but use of NPCs and more random content.

It is cool when somthing totaly random happens like a quest, the DM's do this rather well (even when 7 manticores suddenly appear and attack your low level dude *cough* DM TBD your the best lol)

Just some of my thoughts, i do have actual ideas as to interactive content but the day grows long.