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New (non)Nation idea: Outsiders

Jul 02, 2003 maac_ link
Right now there are 3 nations, red-blue-yellow, and everything is pretty simmetrical, all nations are equal but the national ships, this difference being almost nothing with cheap black market.
I propose a new non nation player or "outsiders".
Outsiders ...
- Would have no national sector, since they have no nation. Couldn't cap too.
- Could dock at any station, including national ones, so they could trade at good benefit red widgets to blues, and so on. This could lead to a new economy, where some weapons (or any other desiderable thing) would be only done at a national sector, and a outsider could buy them and sell them to other nation home station to fill a limited stock at high prices, or even an auction. Nationals could have a scanner beam to see if an outsider carries national things and hunt him....
- Couldn't home at any national station, nor buy national ships but at the black market.
- Wouldn't have Team chat, since they have no team (nation). Instead, they could listen any national team chat but only in the sector where they are, and their team chat would be heard by everybody in his sector (would be a short of sector chat). So, an outsider could be a spy or a mercenary. He could go to a national sector, listen... and sell the information to other nation. Of course, since they have no team chat, they could be discovered and then hunted by their treachery ... No more need to "cheaters" changing nations.
- More ideas?

Jul 02, 2003 Celebrim link
This is just about every players 1st or 2nd suggestion (mine included).

The designer has answered that eventually the concept of nations as we know them is going to radically change, so that it will be possible to drift from one nation to another or effectively become nationless. Presumably your starting nation is just that, a starting point, and while different races will have different starting advantages nothing will prevent a member of any nation from altering his career to anything else.
Jul 02, 2003 SirCamps link
/me points to his idea of making team 0 open to players. 'Nough said.
Jul 02, 2003 genka link
new, eh?

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Jul 02, 2003 Cmdr. Freeman link
/me wants to join the Robot Nation
Jul 02, 2003 Renegade ++RIP++ link
yeah me to, they have a frigate :D
Jul 03, 2003 HumpyThePenguin link
Its mine I tell you!

/me shifts his eyes
Jul 04, 2003 Suicidal Lemming link
/me eats scuba's eyes.

Needs more pie.

Next time when you see a1k0n on, ask him to /kill you

(ask this when you are not in a ship you like, or want to keep)
Oct 30, 2009 Dr. Lecter link
Man, they've been working on "Unaligned" for six freaking years now.

July 2003: The designer has answered that eventually the concept of nations as we know them is going to radically change.

October 2009: Ok, ok! So nothing has changed at all on that front. But the faction redux is coming Soon(tm)!
Oct 30, 2009 CrazySpence link
heh
Oct 31, 2009 Impavid link
Holy thread necromancy.

GIVE US FUCKING UNALIGNED ALREADY!
Oct 31, 2009 Whistler link
People beg to know what the devs are up to, are told ( http://www.vendetta-online.com/h/news.html ) and then demand something else entirely.

This thread had died an unnatural death of off-topicness before. I'll go ahead and lock it up tight in its mausoleum.

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