Good morning, Survivors!!!
Got some great information to pass along today so let’s get to it!
To begin with today I want to talk about Favor. Well, Websters Dictionary states the following:
Something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
friendly or well-disposed regard; goodwill: to win the favor of the king.
Using that base definition, we will add the following as it fits to our game. Favor is an earnable resource that you can use to influence actions and events in our game. You specifically earn the Favor of the different NPC Factions that interact with our town. This was something we started during our online events. Players who did great role play or accomplished great deeds for a Faction where awarded a Favor point.
Players who earned these Favor points could come to Ops and spend these Favor points by asking an NPC Faction to do an action in an off-screen manner to affect the current events of the game.
One example of spending Faction Influence could be: An NPC Group needs X resources. You call in the Faction Influence of another NPC Faction to have those resources sent to the NPC group. These items will never touch player inventory but will instead directly impact the story.
Another example from live play. Our players were being attacked by a group using mortars. They used Favor of another Faction to Counter Battery those mortars which help them win the fight.
You can see why Favor is a valuable resource to gather and use.
Now, I am sure someone is sitting out there and asking me the following question: “That sounds great for online, Curtis, but how is that working in LIVE Games??”
Well, that brings me to an ANNOUNCEMENT!!! This season we are introducing Favor Token Coins that will be awarded during live games. So allow me to introduce you to the “Quiet Hollows Plug Nickel,” because “A Favor may be worth less than a Plug Nickel.”
These tokens will have the faction written on the back of them showing what faction they are from. When requesting a favor from a faction the more tokens you have the more likely you will sway the faction into helping you. However, if you are asking for an impossible task, then all the tokens in the world won’t move the faction into helping you.
To help you with knowing what factions are out there, we have updated our faction page on the website: https://www.dystopiarisingar.com/factions-1
So I am excited to see what our players come up with using these tokens! Be creative and make those favors count!
Before I sign off, don’t forget that pre-registration closes March 29th!
I am looking forward to seeing you all at game!
‘Til next Time!
See you in the waste!!