Everything is impersonal and my suggestion is to change that.

Make a NPC be responsable for the players actions. And give that NPC a "real" Face. Make them gain Ranks/suffer/lend money. He be the one that trusts you when nobody else does..

You meet him as noob and he gives you some background (Story!!).
Maybe hes the one who findes a mentor for you :)
Hes the one who welcomes you if you dock and HE will ask you what happend. "Ive heard you killed/damaged two of our Robots last night ..." pay / lie / ignore / blame them

And based on that you alter the players char
Standing / Reliability / Good / Bad ...

Next time you dock he might be angry because he got disrated just because of you or maybe hes just having a bad day ..

Hope you like it
regards

AgY

Hrm, you mean like how your facial avatar at the bottom center of the screen got beat up more and more in the original Castle Wolfenstein 3D as you took more and more damage?

Haha that might be fun. Kinda like "Max Headroom."

Someone should write a script!

I like it, it gives the NPCs some life thus bringing a bit more life to the game.

someone has been playing Kotor again ...

KotOR is arguably the best game ever to use the Star Wars franchise. Nothing wrong with playing it again :D

Sounds more like Gary from the Pokemon game.
I somewhat agree with the idea however if that happens it might end up feeling more like a single player game than an MMO.
Not that its a bad thing...

I'm all for this but I think if its implemented fully (like if every NPC ranks respawns ect..) its going to add a huuuuge amount of not so nessesary server load.

Neat idea tho /me loves it.

He be the one that trusts you when nobody else does..


Eat too many paint chips as a kid?

Thx for the insult. Got a better idea on "how get into the story"?

Standing (exist), Character attributes (missing) and talking NPCs (missing) with identiy are basic RPG-elements todo this.

It's not the basic idea with which I took issue. You won't catch me posting some half-expressed abortion of a suggestion on (what is for me) a foreign language site, so why must you?

Not relevant or helpful to the subject at hand, Lecter. Commenting: Fail.