Government Factions Added to the Tier System

[Purely]

I'll start by saying this would take a lot of working out between Legal Faction Management, Leadership of Factions and the player base.

This discussion may have been brought up before, but I haven't seen a thread for it so I'm starting a new one. Essentially I believe that it could benefit the server to add government factions to the tiering system. 

1st of all, a lot of current civilian and criminal factions' are judged on their OOC input into the community via the forums. At a minimum, a weekly post is required to maintain their tier, and often more is required to move up the tier ranks. This is not the same for government factions. There is no 'stress' or obligation to add anything regarding the activities the factions have been up to on the forums.

My 2nd point is regarding punishments, criminal and civilian factions must monitor their members for admin punishments and activity of reports on the forums. This is not the case for government factions. They may receive a suspension or removal from the faction, but the faction itself is not impacted the same way as as civilian or criminal factions are.

 

Now the tiers would of course have to work differently, due to the importance of these factions working, covering a 24/7 time zone, and enjoyability. But my suggestion would broadly be, that the higher tiers will receive better load-outs, vehicles and player caps, including treasury injections and customised clothing. 

The rough idea I would have for PD for example would be, at tier 1 they have pistols, non-lethals, 50AP and basic police cruisers. At tier 2 they would have access to, shotguns, 100AP, helicopters, and police bikes. tier 3, full tac gear, assault rifles, armoured vehicles. and so on.

Essentially, I think that the same faction obligations should be spread across every faction in the F4. The problems that would get most factions demoted can also impact the government factions too, which would cause the faction to lose certain privileges/perks. 

- Yes government factions are larger, so a higher cap on player punishments is expected.

- Yes, LSPD and LSSD are crucial to balance on the server, so their initial tier should be pretty much maxed to what they have at the moment.

 

Lastly, this isn't a suggestion (at the moment) just a discussion to see what people think about the idea.

Edited January 11, 2025 by Purely

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