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Unique Skills for faction recruits
Belial
Outside of coming with Faction Armor and weapons faction recruits are just the same as PP recruits, which really lack flavor in my opinion.
I suggest creating 4 separate Gerneral Skill Pools for each faction (PP, NJ, Syn, Anu) which they get to choose their "randomized" skills from. This way every faction recruits are going to be unique.
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Matt Mercer
Instead of this:
"character has 50% to recieve common Skill from his faction pool, 25% to recieve common skill from another faction pool, 20% to recieve uncommon skill from his pool and 5% Rare skill from his pool"
I would suggest this:
- Soldiers available for hire from other factions' havens can only have general skills from their own faction's skill pool, at a Common:Uncommon:Rare percentage chance of 60:30:10.
- Soldiers available for hire from your own bases are assigned a "home" faction when they're generated and can have both Phoenix Project and their own faction skills (but only PP rare skills) at a Common(Faction):Common(PP):Uncommon(Faction):Uncommon(PP):Rare(PP) percentage chance of 20:40:10:20:10 (which is still 60:30:10 overall for Common:Uncommon:Rare).
- Soldiers can have at most two Uncommon or better skills and one Rare skill (any extras are re-rolled keeping the best result, for instance if we already have 2 Uncommon skills and we roll a Rare skill it would replace one of the Uncommon skills before re-rolling). So at best a soldier could have (assuming 3 total general skills) 1 Common, 1 Uncommon, and 1 Rare. Although ideally I think each soldier should have 4 of these general skills instead of 3.
- Skills are then ordered Common:Uncommon:Rare in the soldier's skill list, so that they get access to their rarer general skills as they level up.
Together, these changes to your proposal make it so that:
- Thematically, soldiers hired from other havens with no previous exposure to PP wouldn't have the PP-themed skills.
- Hiring from PP bases should be much more reliable/frequent/convenient than going around to each faction haven, which should balance out the fact that PP base recruits only have a 70% chance of PP faction skills.
- Rare skills have a better chance of being present on at least a couple of your soldiers, and Uncommon skills are a bit more prevalent.
- No soldier ends up with all Uncommon and Rare skills through sheer luck of the dice, given the higher percentages for Uncommon/Rare skills I proposed.
Belial
@Matt Mercer: Thats a good suggestion, thank you
Belial
Seeing your growing support for this suggestion, I took one step further and made a visualisation of how it could look like
Also if you want more perks in I recommend seeing this wonderful suggestion https://feedback.phoenixpoint.info/feedback/p/new-general-skills