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[John Porno]

flamers are devastating on close range. their range is a hex or two longer and they actually have a cone shaped burst so it's possible to hit multiple targets. Since we still have similar armor stats, it's devastating on metal armors. For the future, a damage over time is planned as well.

[A Phoenix citizen]

How much reputation in your faction do you need to be able to access an already established squad base?

[Lidae]

To buy a squad base, you need 30000 reputation and 100k caps for the small base, 200k for the big one. To join an existing squad, you need to be invited by someone from that squad. The invite is sent by an NPC inside the squad base, and to view / accept / decline your invites you can talk to the building manager. In the lawyers base, the building manager is the guy in power combat armor in an office to the right of the main entrance. In the family base, the building manager is a black guy in metal armor on the second floor in an office to the north.

We are planning some changes to the squads and squad bases in the upcoming days. The system works already, but it doesn't offer much except, well, a base for you and your friends.

You can only be in one squad/base at a time, so to join a different squad you need to resign from the one you're currently in.

There are apparently some issues with the squad bases, I saw some error logs in the server window. It's being looked into.

[A Phoenix citizen]

Indeed, I was unable to add someone new to an existing squad base.

[naossano]

I was wondering :

- Would the headquarters of other factions be public location on some extent ? (the courtyard, for instance)
- Would it be possible to go there without being shot or even be defended by guard, with the appropriate reputation ? (to trade with their npc, or just visiting, for instance)
- Which lead the following : Is it possible that there will be some way to increase reputation with other faction ? By what kind of actions ?
- Will the gates map that give access to the core be customized according to the faction style. For instance by having lawyer npcs in the lawyer gate map to the core ?

[John Porno]

1:
the courtyard of other factions will be visible to you if you have enough reputation or in special events which will follow near the end of the server development process
2:
obviously, yes.
3:
obviously, yes. You always increase your rep with faction X by shooting members of its opposing faction.
4:
Gate maps will eventually have patrols in the random spawn pool that have the proper team ID and AI, like guards. There will also be wm encounters with faction patrols around the hq's

[Lidae]

I'd like to add also that there will be ways to participate as a mercenary in zone control with other factions, but for natural reasons this can only happen when there's more than two factions implemented. But essentially if you're a lawyer, you might be able to join some other faction's ZC (not lawyer and not family), and that will bring you reputation with that faction.

[naossano]

So when there will be more faction, all of them will have a faction that is its ennemy ? This factions vs factions reputation would change over time or be permanent ? Everyone would be able to check it ?
If the Lawyer faction is ennemy of the family faction, no Lawyer player/member would be able to have good reputation with family faction ?

Of course, those kind of things would only matter with more than two factions...

[Shangalar]

So when there will be more faction, all of them will have a faction that is its ennemy ?

Yes.

This factions vs factions reputation would change over time or be permanent ?

Probably permanent.

Everyone would be able to check it ?

Yeah, of course, that's something "official".

If the Lawyer faction is ennemy of the family faction, no Lawyer player/member would be able to have good reputation with family faction ?

Yes, that's it. But if you leave Lawyers for another faction, and then manage to improve your Family reputation, you'll eventually be able to join them.

Of course, those kind of things would only matter with more than two factions...

Indeed

[Oliver]

I saw palm trees in the core between buildings on screens... 

[Lidae]

Palm trees are pretty common in Phoenix. Random screen from google maps:

[Shangalar]

hehe, some very special trees, actually.

[Alvarez]

So, anything is going on ATM?

[John Porno]

has been for a while now

[Alvarez]

The testing or the mapping?

[John Porno]

nah, just development.

[Alvarez]

Good to know. You guys do a good work. Godspeed.

[Slitaz]

Hey guys, since a friend told me about AoP i follow this project with a lot of interest, i saw OBT was delayed and i hope it will not be a delay counted on months
Hope the development's goin well and wish we'll be able to play shortly !
Thanks for your work guys this server looks amazingly good

[Shangalar]

Hello Slitaz, thanks for your support. We're working hard every day to get the game ready as soon as possible. At the moment, some tasks are still not advanced enough to start the OBT, but we're getting closer and closer. Can't yet announce any date, but for sure that's not gonna take months before we start.

[Slitaz]

Thanks for your answer Shangalar, i'll follow and wait patiently for any good news on the blog ! Thanks again for the work the AoP team is doing