Improving Gang Mode

[Frank_Stein]

Maybe they could get a few objectives and some gang-specific miscreant objectives? Sometimes it really depends on the players, so having players make up objectives on the spot can be a good and bad thing.

Maybe these can be something like

• -Start a drug market on the station
  -Start an illegal gambling den on the station
  -Control the flow of booze on the station
  -Bribe the HoP into giving your Gang all access ID's
  -Control the flow of goods coming in and out of QM

Things related to gaining cash and influence on the station.

As for the Cred system, it can be stuff like

• -Smoking a cigarette (+1 cred per second)
  -Drink some booze (+5 cred)
  -Do a hard drug (+20 cred)
  -Spray a gang tag (+1 cred per second it's up)
  -Spray over a rival gang tag (+10 cred)
  -Get farted on (-1 Cred)
  -Give a swirly (+5 Cred)
  -Get swirlied (-10 Cred)
  -Break a window (+1 Cred)

Things that are just cool guy gang stuff. Cred could be the currency that gangs use to do special gang stuff. In the case of the leader, it can be recruiting people. Possibly there could be a set of gang powers that employ their street smarts. Things like picking locks, slipping out of cuffs, dashing away from the fuzz.

The Black Market can be a separate system that ties into just normal cash on the station. Buy some gang clothes that generate Cred while you wear them and spray paint for tagging. Get some weapons like razors, chains, and bats. Get equipment and ingredients to make drugs like meth and weed. Maybe they occasionally want random shit on the station that the gangs can steal and sell them. Have it rotate like other merchant deals. Contact them with your PDA and have them ship it through the mailing system, or print off special barcode stickers to sell stuff to them.

Rethinking the loyalty thing, it could be that a gang over 5 sometimes just has a random member get the idea to challenge the leader. At that point, if he can punch the leader enough times, he becomes the new leader. If the leader can punch him enough times, he becomes loyal again.

As for brigging, the only problem I can foresee is Security immediately brigging the gang leader until his gang disbands.

That's possible, but only if there are no other members of the gang. If the leader is the one in the brig, it doesn't have any effect unless he's the only person on the gang remaining. Also, Cred could be tied into just how long someone needs to be in the brig before the revert back into a law abiding citizen.