Improving Gang Mode

[BruiseCruise]

I'd imagine the research gang would be pretty over powered. Considering they have access to: bombs, chemistry, the teleporter, the cloner, genetic powers, bot armies, most of the medical supplies. The other gangs wouldn't stand a chance (especially the civilian gang).

Yea, this. Plus depending on the server and the time of day, you might have a gang with like.... Three people vs. a full roster in every other group (ex. usually when I'm on there's maybe two or three Medical Personnel and Scientists). I think one of the strengths of the proposed Gang Mode is that Gang Leaders can be anyone and they can recruit anyone (aside from Heads and Sec, probably). That means that certain members will be more useful than others and will generate competition for recruitment. This will generate incentive for Gangs/Gang Leaders to convince people to join and offer rewards to people who follow them. That way if the crewman just wants to do his/her job, the Gang will have to work harder or consider other means. If you limit it to three Gangs based on profession, you limit the freedom of Gang Creation and potentially run into more balancing issues.

Hopefully not. The gangs are meant to be loud with their clothes and the actions they take to build cred, so unlike spy people will have an idea what's going on. The gangs are also discouraged to kill wantonly since the Heat system would make things harder for them if they do.

And yes, the proposed system should actively discourage crazed violence what with the Street Cred and Heat ideas we've been cooking up. A lot of the Black Market items shouldn't have to be weapons either. Rather, they should work towards improving a gang's Street Cred or their hideout. Like we mentioned earlier, the Black Market would supply narcotics, gang garb, merch (ghettoblasters, couches, clutter used for fortifications and/or extra Cred generation) and maybe a few weapons (switchblades, baseball bats, nunchaku, gimmicky stuff like that). The mode may promote vandalism and heckling, but if that isn't gang-ish I don't know what is.