Optional Reputation System for PvE

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Posted this in the reddit a while back.

Certain actions can raise or lower your reputation with the people of the world, allowing you to customize if you'll be a cruel tyrant, or a benevolent ruler. Did you free a captive civilian from a bandit camp and let them get away? Rep goes up.
Did you go into a village and nuke the place in a blood frenzy? Rep goes down.

At high enough reputation, civilians won't run away from you and may even offer you a bottle of blood as you go by, in thanks for the help you've given. Guards and members of the Faith will still be wary of you, but will no longer attack on sight. Going off the highly upvoted NPC raids, at high rep you may get raided by bandits.

At a low reputation, the people are terrified of you. They will drop resources hoping you'll spare them, guards and church members will attack on sight but they are scared witless and may fumble. At this stage, Militia members will be the ones raiding you.

And that's all I got room for here, bye!

Feature Request Suggested by: BladeOfThePoet (22 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 4

Comments: 4

10 Jun, '23
Jake Turklee
At a time when religion had dealings with vampires, it didn't matter how merciful this or that vampire was. This is not our progressive time, where there is a place for any evil spirits, but rather a time where people were so stupid and superstitious that making friends with vampires was something from the category of fantasy. Instead, I would suggest the concept of a threat to your castle, depending on your actions in a particular location.
10 Jun, '23
Jake Turklee
A threat to your castle.
When a player reaches a certain castle level 3-5, his actions begin to affect the reputation for his castle. For example, the more often you raid and hunt in the Silvery Hills, the more angry the inhabitants there become towards you, and ultimately this can lead to a PvE siege of your castle by one or another faction. The player's actions will accumulate percentages that can be displayed on the map, and the higher the scale, the more dangerous and possible the raid will be.
10 Jun, '23
Jake Turklee
20% is only 20% raid strength and 20% chance that this raid will happen at any time while you are in the castle.
When you reach 100% threat from a certain territory, then you are besieged not by 1 wave, but by 3 waves, at the end the strongest wave.
The more players assigned to the castle, the faster it can gain threat. For example, one player in 1 location can gain threat for a long time, and then it fades away over time, but if 3-4 players hunt in 1 location, then each of them gives their percentage and brings the raid to your castle closer.
10 Jun, '23
Jake Turklee
This can encourage the player to change their activity from location to location to wait for your castle's threat level to drop, but it can also be used as an event that other players can take part in. This idea is the same for both PvP and PvE. But the threat percentages will take a very long time to accumulate, so if you do not deliberately collect them, then the event may never happen, and this will protect you and your castle from unwanted guests.