Rpg: Village Friendship Meter
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Ono it's a drawing.
Anyways, we're not having the huge planets in the RPG just so our map looks good. Each planet(and by each I mean 2 or 3 out of 5) will have villages/cities(depending on their level of technological evolution) that you can visit to find things like info on where to go next, items to purchase(such as lowering Xenon levels but we won't spoil anything), or perhaps a person you need to talk to. Now, of course, the village will start off being very wary of you, if it's not your home village(which we'll discuss later).
Enter the Village Friendship Meter, or VFM, designed by Tenebrae Invictus.
When you first step into a village not your own, the inhabitants obviously won't know you, and therefore will only allow limited access to the city itself, including blocking off access to those you may need to get information from. How do you gain access? By doing favors and increasing your standing in the meter. Each time you do a favor, your VFM level for that village increases by one. With enough favors done over time, you can boost your standings to a level high enough where they practically let you do anything you want there.
This has a flip side, however. Each city/village will have rivals on it's same planet, and when your VFM goes up for a city, it will go down for that city's rival(s). Eventually, you can get into such a bad standing with them that they won't even let you into their city at all, so the VFM will be something to watch carefully in game.
-MT
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