Don't get more bossy and impolite than you usually behave, Virg. I have read what you wrote, and see no connection to the welcomer's behavior, and much less a point in monopolizing generic weapons. There, you are already inconsequential by offering a -10 threshold which does not exist in the camp merchants either. So, when dealing differently with the welcomer, why not like with other welcomers? I did not read a single rational argument for.
What is wrong with a welcomer, and possibly even a few marauder mission NPC in every high level region of the continents, offering marauder missions with low or no fame threshold? It would add athmosphere, as a homin interested in doing marauder missions may be, or become interested in the faction altogether.
Granted, one ought not make it too easy for those above fame -1. For example, one could place two guards or so close to the welcomer who react similar to tribe or city guards (which attack 50 points below their equilibrium while marauders would do 40 above their equilibrium, but so what. Their attack would attract guards from inside the camp, thus obtaining the mission when not below 0 would be tricky (and funny). Anyway, the welcomer would give it.
The idea of marauder scouts or journeymen as mission givers on the continents would also project marauder presence, and add athmosphere and variety instead of alienating the ones and spoiling the others. I would even advocate marauder hawkers, at least one in every surface 200 and 250 region. To make it not too easy, they could take, say, 5% of the mat given as a royalty for their fencing job. That would make life easier for marauder harvesters.
What is wrong with a welcomer, and possibly even a few marauder mission NPC in every high level region of the continents, offering marauder missions with low or no fame threshold? It would add athmosphere, as a homin interested in doing marauder missions may be, or become interested in the faction altogether.
Granted, one ought not make it too easy for those above fame -1. For example, one could place two guards or so close to the welcomer who react similar to tribe or city guards (which attack 50 points below their equilibrium while marauders would do 40 above their equilibrium, but so what. Their attack would attract guards from inside the camp, thus obtaining the mission when not below 0 would be tricky (and funny). Anyway, the welcomer would give it.
The idea of marauder scouts or journeymen as mission givers on the continents would also project marauder presence, and add athmosphere and variety instead of alienating the ones and spoiling the others. I would even advocate marauder hawkers, at least one in every surface 200 and 250 region. To make it not too easy, they could take, say, 5% of the mat given as a royalty for their fencing job. That would make life easier for marauder harvesters.
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