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Suggestion; Corruption Mechanism


Anopheles

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Note: This is spiritual corruption, not architectural, though that would be nice as a side effect.

 

Nor is this attempt to bring religion, real or otherwise into the game. It would be more like a Buddhist thing with various sects interpreting.

 

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The creation if 'corruption' would do the following things:

 

Give an organic solution to the worst of griefing. 

 

Make DU stand out from other hard scifi universes.

 

Give a 'get corruption clear corruption' game loop. 

 

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What is it?

 

In my idea corruption would come from doing various acts such as;

 

Murdering without provocation or 'bounty state', 'war state", etc

 

Destruction of property without reason.

 

Visting certain locations (to seek if you want to be corrupted)

 

Fencing stolen goods

 

Mining certain materials

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and have the following buffs and de buffs

 

Increased prices in 'decent' starting hubs and good prices in official black markets

 

Darkening of the colour tone of building materials. 

 

Increases and decreased abilities

 

Access to and loss of access to certain schema

 

And so on.

 

Corruption could be cleared by acts of repentance or time.

 

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Don't shoot me, I'm just thinking out loud. 

 

 

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That's... just a bad idea. I see where you are going with this and why it's both a good and bad idea, but there is a little thing called emergent gameplay.

Let's assume you just killed a member of an important organization. Those people are probably going to shit on you if you have a bad day.

Boom, you either a.) immediately die upon entering a trading zone or b.) you have to pay a lot more money for an item.

And darkening tones is just a bit daft.

 

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