Plaza 2 - Its a safe zone and it is as big as a faction HQ but it has no real purpose or use. Why is it there? A throwback to NC1? The forgotten and never implemented Trader Union?
I remember when NC had no safe zones some people used to go there to "hide" from the evil. But today we have safe zones again and still no use for it. I would like that to change.
Currently we have a small amount of "newby" content - in the form of MC5 and the Jones missions. These are great btw. I love them. Just what the game needs. However I am thinking it might be nice to expand that hand holding time a little further. I want to spread the newbs out through the game a little more. I think the Job Centre is just the place to do it.
Essentially I am thinking the short version is we put a handful of NPC's in there and give them repeatable quests. These quests should not be faction specific or biased in any way shape or form. They should each send the noobs to different parts of the Outzone/Pepper Park/Industrial Zone.
They should each pay - upon completion - a handsome amount of credits and some decent XP. Lets say for arguments sake 1k XP per skill across all skills. I would like to write up some small story lines for these NPC's and also perhaps have some way of adding them into the game (through the in game mail suggesting noobs go to the job centre or perhaps Mr Jones can suggest it?).
This is the bare bones of my idea anyway. I want to get this project off the ground in the next few weeks before submitting it to the powers that be as a fully functional scripted idea (as in words rather than code script).
I would however like a bit of feedback from the creative geniuses that are our current community before I do this. Essentially I am thinking that the only requirement for these missions would be to take noobs from /5 or whatever they finish Jones at, potentially up to /15 or even /20.
I am aware that they might take over the current Citycom missions that are in game but to be fair that whole thing needs a good rework anyway.
So yeah I would like to see some more foot traffic moving through Plaza 1 and 2 and perhaps a few more of the really helpful NPCs that are already in there would get used more and help them out with the game. Not only that these sort of missions might be fun for some of the older heads who have decided to make new chars etc.
Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions/improvements?