Faction Affiliation

[Phantom Bullet]

This idea may be more for CK2, but I was wondering if it would be possible to (semi?) permanently join a faction and gain benefits and penalties associated with it. I was thinking something like a tattoo or a badge (or a large neon sign) or some kind of indicator that tells others that you are affiliated with a certain faction.

Positive benefits would include:
    - more pay from jobs given by that faction (~10%?)
    - prices for items/weapons/armor cheaper (~10%?)
    - rep increases faster with that faction
    - rep decreases slower with that faction
    - less negative (and/or more positive) encounters in affiliated faction space

Negative penalties would include:
    - less pay from jobs given by other factions (~10%?)
    - prices for items/weapons/armor more expensive (~10%?)
    - rep increases slower with other factions
    - rep decreases faster with other factions
    - more negative (and/or less positive) encounters in non-affiliated faction space

If your faction is allied with another faction, you can receive partial benefits (by 50%? 2x?), but if it's enemies with another faction, the penalty increases (by 50%? 2x?).

This options, I believe, should only be available for mid to higher leveled characters who are 100% SURE that they want to join that faction. You could make sure of this by making it into a special mission (kill the lieutenants from all the other factions) and/or by achieving certain stats (must have X amount of positive rep for faction you want to join AND Y amount of negative rep for all other factions).

[fallen]

phantom bullet - the nature of the Cyber Knight is what makes them both the perfect agent for a faction, but also the perfect spy or traitor. To the faction, the Cyber Knight is a black box, and could be (and probably is) working for others at the same time. We are working through a number of the bonuses you suggested, but they will all be based on having positive or negative reputation, and not on ever "joining a faction." A Cyber Knight is just too dangerous to take into a faction or to ever trust. If you let them in the door, there is no telling how long they have been a double-agent and plotting to wreak havoc once you let them in ...

[xdesperado]

Think the talk with the Yakuza ladder connector gives a perfect feel for the way factions feel about and treat CKs.

A CK can work with and parallel a factions interests but can never become a real member of that faction.

[grävling]

But Victor strongly implies that joining the Blue Ox is a possibility. Is he lying?

[fallen]

grävling - it would be highly unlikely or dangerous ... but that is the type of thing of which Cyber Knights stories are made.

[Phantom Bullet]

fallen - I was thinking more along the gameplay side of CK, and none of the story side (if that makes any sense to you) when I wrote that. Anyways, I was more concerned with adding the bonuses and penalties to the game; permanently joining the faction part was just my way of trying to tie them all up and giving a reason for why those bonuses and penalties might exist. I'm just glad that you already had these ideas planned out already!