Alternate Characters Abuse

While that's fine and dandy and all, I don't think the mods need even more work from what i can tell most don't do it anyway. on their shoulders.
Plus, for factions like the Blackleaf, waiting a day or two for a character that will be throwaway technically is fairly insane. It's probably be like a week though.

 

Then don't make throwaways

 

I think this server could use a lot more "real" characters, instead of disposable throwaways made to be killed off the second they step foot on the server. That's why I feel this system would be nice to have, though it may give the reviewers and moderators more work.

 

Not enough manpower.

 

While it is a good principle, I feel that it would either be executed badly or not executed at all. Also, giving donators the power to say yes or no is a big no-no. I agree that characters should seem more "real" and that people shouldnt have a trillion and one throwaways, but theres gotta be some sort of middle ground between waiting a week or so to play a new character and making a hundred and one in one night.

 

The main problem I see with having the community or donors to vote on 2nd+ characters is that, to put it lightly, some people here I've noticed can be very opinionated about what a character should be. This, in my opinion, could potentially lead to where the loudest people on the forums are the ones deciding what characters come to life on the server, and you'd potentially wind up with a server full of only certain type of characters, destroying any sort of variety in the server's characters.

Not to mention, Idk if the Whitelist script can even be modified to only accept certain characters from an IP to prevent people from just skipping the voting stuff to begin with.

No comment on just having mods look at applications for additional characters, because I can't even begin to imagine how much additional work would be required from them, if it's even significant at all.

 

I think you misinterpreted. I did not mean every military faction. Example, albeit probably poor one, R.A. They had a recruitment system, limited manpower, etc. Factions like Blackleaf should not need a check for characters that are litterally meant to be fodder for the sake of others' gaining combat experience, potential injury to assist development or, if consented, death, because life isn't pretty and perfect.

 

So any alts that a player is planning on actually playing and developing. For example if I were to abandon Cole, and start a new charatcer, Id need another character check like in the initial application. Yes?

 

"Fodder" Characters are heavily discouraged by the Faction regulations, regarding NPC characters. To be blunt, fodder characters are a simple loophole around the ban on NPCs at combatants, and as such, really shouldn't be used.


However, on the original topic of the thread, I agree that it's a good idea, but it's another ideal that can't be fulfilled by the server's current state, sadly. It's far too much work for the staff team, which has enough trouble regarding applications and manpower as is.

 

That could be nice. Maybe even another thread regarding fodder characters, if outright voiding them doesn't work out.

 

Maybe a ratio of players to fodder, like Atom kind of mentioned, of like 1:2 or 1:3, something reasonable, but still something to give the faction weight and allow people to die. Your faction has 5 members, youve got the members plus 10 to 15 fodder that arent really interacted with IC outside of throwing them in front of bullets. I dunno. It cant be too high though, as if you lose too many you cant go on. Mains or non-cannon fodder could be the last wave, or could be the person you use to do the special missions.

In the end, as of now its entirely up to the player to use their better judgement. *grimace*