Requisition agents
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Requisition agents are NPCs that enable players to fulfill buy orders.[1]
- Requisition agents are located at the warehouse default service building in nodes.[1]
Buy orders
Alpha-2 Buy orders.[2][3]
Buy orders are instrumental in the activities that a node participates in.[4] – Steven Sharif
Alpha-2 Node treasury work-in-progress UI showing a buy order for a node commodity used in building a Smithy.[5]
We're gonna build a Forge today, or a Smithy- we renamed it: it's not a forge anymore- and we need bins of stone for it.[5] – Chris Justo
Buy orders are the primary way for a node to generate node commodities that can be spent on construction, upgrades, and maintenance of node service buildings.[2][6]
- Mayors initiate buy orders using gold from the node treasury.[2][6][7] The mayor can adjust the parameters of buy orders:
- How many commodities are being requested.[2][6]
- How long the buy order is active.[2][6]
- The raw materials or crafting materials required to complete the buy order.[8][2][6] Final goods are not used to complete buy orders.[8]
- How much players are rewarded.[2][6]
- When selecting specific types of buy orders that require certain material components in order to fulfill, you will have a wide array of material choices to make: either those that are relevant locale to your node placement or those that are across the world; and there is a variable in payment that the mayor has access to in setting and how they'll be rewarding players. So you need to make sure that you're incentivizing players who are making those large transits across the world to actually take that risk and bring those materials to you.[9] – Steven Sharif
- Players are rewarded with bound node currency and node reputation for fulfilling buy orders.[4][2][6]
- Once a material gets sunk into the buy order, the player receives the benefit of the node currency, which right now is a bound currency that's used to purchase a number of different types of vendorable items that exist within nodes.[4] – Steven Sharif
- If a mayor does not create buy orders, they will auto-populate after a set period of time based on node activities.[10]
- If the mayor is not making these decisions, buy orders will populate based off of activities that the node have available to them after a set period of time. So that the bad faith mayor is not depleting the node potentially of its resources that players can still interact with.[10] – Steven Sharif
- Node citizens participating in buy orders will generate mandates for their node.[11]
- Players will be able to view buy orders that are listed at nodes around the world.[12]
- Those of you who are traders and are interested in actually capitalizing on the supply and demand of nodes and their competing interests and what they're trying to accomplish will have an opportunity to move those goods around the world: Take that risk potentially, but receive a high reward as a result.[12] – Steven Sharif
- Buy orders are distinct from mayoral commissions.[13]
- A buy order is strictly material-based and you don't accept a buy order and then go do it. It is something that you can just check your node UI or you can check the nodes around you to see what they have active and you can just go do it and come back; and participate or fulfill these buy orders. Whereas, a commission is- a mayoral commission is more like a quest. It's something you pick up and then it tracks your activity while you have it.[13] – Chris Justo
Node reputation
Good actions, such as completing buy orders, commissions, and caravan trips, can cause a character to gain positive node reputation. Bad actions taken, such as failing certain quests, may result in gaining negative reputation. This reputation is gained or lost on a per-node basis.[14][8][15]
- Whether you're a citizen or not, you can establish reputation within a node; and the way you establish that reputation is by completing buy orders, completing commissions and quests, and even completing caravan trips there or out of there. Different interactions that you would do with the node can yield you reputation within that particular node.[14] – Steven Sharif
- Node reputation applies to both node citizens and non-citizens.[14]
- Excessive negative reputation may cause a character to be deemed enemy of the state of a node.[15]
- Negative reputation may open up certain quest lines that the darker, seedier side of the world are interested in.[15]
- The more good aligned or civilization building aligned tasks that you complete, you get higher positive reputation. But if you get low or bad reputation you could be deemed enemy of the state of a node. You could be deemed a bad actor and it might raise prices for you, but it also might open up certain quest lines that the darker, seedier side of the world are interested in.[15] – Steven Sharif
Certain NPCs and node vendors will react differently to player characters based on their reputation within the node or with "factions" within the node (such as social organizations).[16][17][15][18]
- Node reputation affects access to certain node vendors, specific goods or services that they sell, and the pricing of those items.[8][15]
- Higher node reputation can unlock rarer commissions.[14]
- NPC guards will kill corrupted players on sight.[19]
- Node reputation is a separate mechanic that also deals as a predicate for the vendors that you have access to as a player. And so you can establish that node reputation by doing certain activities within the node, by progressing within certain social organizations, or certain religions within the node; and then that predicate serves as your access either to items granularly within a vendor's access table, or to just vendors as a whole. It just depends; and there's different thresholds you have to meet across different vendors.[8] – Steven Sharif
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- NPCs will add a player to their hate list if that player heals, buffs or otherwise assists any player on their hate list.[20]
Visuals
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See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Video, August 31, 2023 (25:00).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Blog: Development Update with Village Node.
- ↑ Livestream, August 31, 2023 (50:25).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Livestream, August 31, 2023 (1:01:10).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Video, August 31, 2023 (5:04).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Livestream, August 31, 2023 (59:43).
- ↑ Interview, July 8, 2020 (1:04:05).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Livestream, August 31, 2023 (1:06:01).
- ↑ Livestream, August 31, 2023 (1:02:35).
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Livestream, August 31, 2023 (1:02:23).
- ↑ Livestream, August 31, 2023 (1:04:00).
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Video, August 31, 2023 (12:55).
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Livestream, August 31, 2023 (1:04:14).
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Livestream, February 29, 2024 (57:27).
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 Livestream, December 23, 2021 (1:26:36).
- ↑ Livestream, July 28, 2023 (1:19:55).
- ↑ Livestream, February 24, 2023 (1:22:04).
- ↑
- ↑ Livestream, February 28, 2020 (1:14:38).
- ↑ Livestream, November 17, 2017 (29:45).