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Old 07-07-2019, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Getting the starting faction right is a complicated fix. Race, class and deity are all factors.

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I was around and worked on this for the launch of P1999 Blue and you hit the nail on the head. There is like hundreds (?) of factions in the game and for each one you need to decide a default value for every race, class, and deity. It was a super laborious job and really we had no way to tell whether or it was perfectly accurate to classic.

It wasn't a perfect system, but unfortunately the goal was to make something that resembled classic to the best of our ability since there was no hard data available. We had certain strange examples to try and guide us: ie. certain deities were non-kos in Kael, in the Hole, in Sol A etc. But other than that we just tried to make evil characters feel hated in good cities, and in good guilds of neutral cities.