TheXnator wrote:
Pie_ wrote:
Nice update, glad to see community members are being given recognition for their suggestions too!
One question, why are only 5 members allowed in each gang now? Surely won't this make the gang rivalry pointless since there will barley be any gangs to rival with in the first place?
Aside from that i love it well done people
We've noticed that gangs tend to have a large number of players in and end up taking over the entire server, preventing players in smaller gangs from having as much of a chance - by reducing the number of players in a gang (most servers do have quite strict limits on gang members), more gangs will exist on the server and it will be more viable to create a new gang rather than joining an existing big gang and adding yourself to their arsenal of players. Plus with the new Gang Store, having more members in the gang may make the perks a bit OP (you can enjoy them being powerful for 2 weeks!).
In future updates, however, we do have plans to add ways for the gang member limit to be increased for gangs which work towards it, but would like to keep a level playing field at the start and get an idea on how it plays out (the increased gang ally limit also means theoretically you could have up to 20 players working together rather than what would have been 10 if the gang ally limit had remained at 2).
I can see where you are coming from but i would argue that regardless of if you set a gang's player limit to 5, there will still be gangs that fully own the server. For example, a big gang like Standby could just split off into smaller factions and gangs creating an endless loops of gangs. Reducing the gang member limit will not do much in my opinion.
Next, you go on to say that the gang shop will be too OP with larger gangs. To combat this, could you not just make it so that the more members a gang has, the less effective the gang shop upgrades are? Like for example, the gang printer buff could work so that if a gang has 10 members, you get a 25% increase in printer profit, but if you have a gang with 15 members, the gang printer buff only gives you a 15% profit. Easier said than done but if this feature must stay in the update then at least it should work effectively for the masses