Increasing Bribe NPC Chance

[LaWey]

Stolt,in this cases they change char name. Also with 2 accs you can do it infinity times.

[Stolt.]

Yeah okay @JorgeRyan and @Erik-Kieber have brought up good points, its possible to just take timestamped photos, my bad. I'd like to see this system experimented with in game and see what happens

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[Karlotta]

The player was probably trying to get a double or tripple bribe (waiting till two or three npcs offer the same bribe and then take them all at once to get max rep or guard rep). That used to be the only way to get into some factions before the restarts came.

People told me that it's not easy to get the bar npcs to appear like one wants to, although that does seem to happen in the shrine, so I don't know how true that was or is.

One way to raise the probability would be to segregate bar npcs more, like make the large majority of bar chars affiliated with the station owner. That would make it hard to get improve you rep with someone you're currently hostile with, so probably not a good idea.

I don't see how the FLHook thing would be abused by pirates, because the pirate ID lets people shoot them regardless of IFF, as far as I know. But I don't think it would be a good idea because it takes away immersion and the Freelancer gameplay that people are used to an come to expect, just to make thing 0-effort for people who know all the tricks. I'm also for removing most of the restarts so people stick to well RPed and well known characters.

Also, remove Trent from the bar cut scenes entirely. Easily done.

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[Sombs]

It's sad to see that a simple proposal ends up with ten posts proposing something different that isn't really needed. Adjusting the numbers for bar NPCs in terms of bribe chance don't require new plug-ins. It's easily done and pretty much all it would require to be done without creating new problems. The other proposals take away finding the right station, clicking through bar NPCs in first place.

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[moebus]

Would much rather see bribes be done by flhook command like /bribe GMG +500.000 to make it go up 5 bars and -500.000 to make it go down

I would really like that! (and maybe also a /bribe GMG -500.000 to decrease your GMG rep (because accepting and canceling missions also force you to disconnect and relog => the reason for this negative bribe is that sometimes you have green factions in your rep but you would prefer to have it neutral (or red) to prevent false-green while flying in space.

To reduce abuses of this bribe command:
- it could cost a discouraging amount of credits
- it could be done one time per period (week?) like the renameme command
- it would be enabled only in some planet/station per faction: for instance, the GMG command would be only enabled on Planet Miura (Okinawa system). If you can't dock on this planet, then you would have to bribe GMG allies first.

However, I don't realize the amount of work required, nor if it is possible to do it on the server.

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[Stefan]

Funny how this shows up soon after I start to make sense out of bribing.

... The other proposals take away finding the right station, clicking through bar NPCs in first place.

This is what seals it for me. I'm onboard with number and probability tweakings.

[Sand_Spider]

I don't think we'd necessarily need to implement an entire plugin for bribes. I think the hardest part of that would be trying to ensure that empathy adjustments are kept when running a bribe via flhook commands (i.e. factions hostile to the bribed faction hate you for it accordingly).

I've perused through FLStat's chances for certain bribes. Would you believe that GC have a mere 1.5% chance of having a bribe available on Roppongi Station in New Tokyo? That's pretty insanely low, if you ask me. And that's just one example!

I guess the only downside to increased bribe chances would be a decrease to the number of rumors available for viewing at a single time. That doesn't seem so bad, since you can easily re-enter the bar for new rumors, whereas the bar tender usually offers a bribe instead of a rumor, more often than not.

Buff bribe rates, please.

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[Erik-Kieber]

I agree that an flhook plugin might be to strong but these kind of repeated logins can be real game breaking. The one of this morning been trying for hours and more then once it had a full page in the chat just for him reloging. Surely there is a better solution to this bribing system then the current one in use. Have seen some good sugestions trough this tread, maybe devs can work with those idea's

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[Sombs]

Bribing could easily turned to 100% in each bar with various NPCs offering them. I'd however like it if they would demand more than merely a million per bribe. Maybe times ten, so people think twice about doing it the "easy" way.

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