Periodic, automatic events
Would the community have fun with this?

delivery to the prison on Red.

Occurs, let's say, once a month at a regular interval that players could over time learn, study, and exploit.

How it plays out:

A convoy of vehicles arrives through the Omega gates filled with corpsec security or something as an escort to deliver valuable resources (drugs, guns, handcuffs, whatever maybe it changes month to month) to the prison. The cars move from room to room in plain sight, halt at the prison for a while to be cleared, then enter the prison to offload crates. After the crates are off-loaded by NPCs , or prison PCs, they are brought to some secure room and 'stored' aka they disappear after an hour or something, and the convoy drives off.

Players could attempt to do things like:

Block the convoy and rob the vehicles

Ambush the convoy at the prison

Bribe a prison guard PC to miss a couple crates and sell them off on the side

Choose to protect the convoy as a TERRA agent/good-cop type person

Throw bombs at the convoy and just watch the world burn

You get the idea. It would be nearly automatic, as in any aggression to the vehicles or staff sets the NPCs to auto-aggro on aggressors, like the gangers currently do. Maybe even certain shipments require WJF oversight for high-value deliveries which would give WJF PCs an excuse to push into Red.

The crates, in this case, could be opened with some in-game tool like a wrecking bar or something, and valuable items would be found inside to be dealt with however the players want to deal with them.

Things this opens up: Puts more players out in the open more often, both to team up on little missions, and to be sniped/dipped/whatever by other PCs.

Potential problem: Kind of a 'quest' like thing that SD doesn't normally do, and could be considered by some to be too farmable? I think if it was coded correctly, the fun and potential for RP/PK/interaction outweighs this 'issue'.

Also, could be a pain to code, not sure on that. Sounds like a fun thing to me, but maybe not for everyone, what do you think?

On the other hand, a lot of things that I hear people wanting to do against NPCs are actually already possible with a PC target instead. PCs go in and out of the prison all the time. There is nothing stopping a character from trying to do something cool with this. And if you want to rob a store, why not target one run by a PC? Try and catch them there, hold them up and demand money from the register or items from the shelves. The PCs that run shops can do those things.

A good exercise is to think about what cool plan you'd love to inflict on an NPC or NPC run location and try to work out an analogue that is PC focused. It's not always possible but it's surprising how much can be done in this manner.

But I also understand some people's complaints regarding characters spending a vast majority of their time in their apartments. Unless OOC circumstances make it unfeasible or I have a good reason to do otherwise, I try and keep my PC out of their pad or other largely inaccessible areas as often as possible while logged in. I would love to see others do this more.

Even when you aren't actively doing cool proactive stuff related to a goal you can often have your character get out and contribute to ambiance. Gangers can strut along their turf or hang with a group of fellow gangers outside a commonly frequented building. TERRA could be patrolling or standing watch over high traffic areas. Corpies could be reading books or enjoying a drink at a restaurant or bar or just walking the streets of Green or Gold looking important.

There is a way for just about every archetype or job to be out contributing to ambiance instead of sitting in their apartment. Just being someplace visible with a nice @look_place can do a lot for ambiance. And yes, this exposes your character more and bad things are more likely to happen. That can suck at the time but I personally will take a few losses and deaths if it lets me contribute to ambiance and liven my character's story up a bit.

I would also encourage players to think hard about how doing everything in a disguise and on the down-low affects them. Sure. You might get away with more stuff without having to deal with someone lashing back. But you will also gain far less reputation and you will miss out on beefs that could have made your character's story so much better and your playtime more interesting.

I am not against disguises but I sometimes feel that it is used so much more (and for nearly everything) compared to five years ago and I personally feel that it's had a questionable impact on ambiance and the ability for characters to interact with each other and develop relations with other PCs.

Sindome is not like many other multiplayer online games that are full of NPCs all offering canned quests that players line up and take turns going through. There is no plot that groups of PCs take turns exploring. There are no canned raids. The GMs can and do provide things similar to this on a more customized manner but 95% of your story is going to be PvP (RP driven PvP to be precise) and I love this. I don't enjoy the game play of most multiplayer online games. I am weary of making Sindome more like them. It's more on you to create the quests and to involve others then it is on the tooling and GMs.

On the other hand, Sindome is not like D&D or other tabletop games where all the players are the team of protagonists and the big bad world is the GMs delivering tailored content to all the players. In Sindome some PCs might be like a party of adventures. Some are the Goblins. Some are the evil Dukes. Some are the dragons. If you don't have anything else to do, go breathe life into the city by embracing the role your character is in. Don't wait for a GM to bring you story. Go create story even if it means being someone else's goblin or dragon or evil Duke.

I don't think I worded this well before but I honestly believe it is on every PC to push the theme and ambiance. Sometimes that means going out and doing a typical thing that people of their role should be doing and intentionally making yourself a potential target. Being the goblins. Being the adversary. Not just being the hunter or protector.

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