Topic

Karma system

As I was writing in the General forum in the About Those Trees... thread, the following occurred to me:

The gods need to have a karma system. We have favour. But if you start pissing off the animals you should lose favour with Humbaba or if you cut down trees that arent dead you should lose favour with [who's the tree god?] and if you get -1000 favour you get a bad emblem or something. Once you get to that negative milestone it becomes that much harder to regain the favour. Rival gods would grant favour to those who gain these emblems.
It would allow more dynamic to the gods and religions thing. And also allow the chaos and entropy and rivalry that people want in a game.

PS: by gods I mean giants - I think we all use the terms interchangeably.

Posted 24 months ago by Cap'n Bob Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • +1
    Posted 24 months ago by LarsLikesMilk Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 It would be fun if shrines grumbled at you as you pass because you had negative karma
    Posted 24 months ago by bluto Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Donate the bad emblem to the rival shrines.
    Posted 24 months ago by Johnny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the idea. Maybe not the whole idea of making it possible to donate the bad emblem to the rival shrines, because I could see players intentionally trying to lose favor to get these emblems. I don't think they should be a reward in that sense.
    Posted 24 months ago by Leviathan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 24 months ago by Shieldmaiden Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    @Leviathan can you donate emblems? Does anything in particular happen?
    Posted 23 months ago by Mursock Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Mursock I'm sure it's possible to donate an emblem once you get it. It however would probably be pointless as you would get less favor points than it took to receive it. The whole problem with donating to opposing/rival shrines is that it would be a bad idea to encourage incorrigible behavior (lol) to receive a bad karma emblem just to be able to donate it to another shrine.
    Posted 23 months ago by Leviathan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Not so pointless, though, as emblems have other uses besides their donation value. I guess if you donate it it's just recycling, after you're happy with getting the achievement and don't feel like using the emblem to gain xp anymore. Better to donate it and gain some favour points back than letting it sit.

    I don't think shrines even CAN be outright rivals...aren't the giants all in this together, trying to help us build the world back? We don't know much about Glitch theology yet but I was under the impression that they were all on the same team. Unless it's more complicated than that...maybe there are feuds between certain giants, and that could make for interesting quests for players.
    Posted 23 months ago by Cefeida Subscriber! | Permalink
  • there is a leaderboard for the giants, showing which giant has gathered the most favour.

    currently Zille:

    alpha.glitch.com/leaderboar...

    probably because there is a Zille shrine close to the gem motherlode.

    text on the page:

    "Giants aren't naturally very competitive. In fact, it's likely not one of them has ever deigned to look at this leaderboard. But if a giant ever did glance in this direction, it would please them greatly to be at the top."

    the implication being that they are slightly competitive even if they pretend not to be.
    Posted 23 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can be pleased about a win without being competitive.
    Posted 23 months ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So you claim, semi-Tingly.
    Posted 23 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • When you can snatch this rock from my hand, you may leave.
    Posted 23 months ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Seems consistent with what I thought, that giants don't actually compete with each other for followers in the sense that they wouldn't set their followers against each other, or try to disturb another giant's domain.
    Posted 23 months ago by Cefeida Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm fairly sure you can't donate emblems at the moment, please correct me if I'm wrong though. Do love the idea of negative favour.
    Posted 23 months ago by SuperHappyFun Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think you're right Super. I've got multiple duplicate emblems from working street projects that I've tried donating to get rid of with no luck.
    Posted 23 months ago by Cainunable Subscriber! | Permalink