I would like to see more done with factions in Destiny.
Disclaimer: I'm not grouping Vanguard and Crucible with the word "Factions" since ranking those two require no additional actions or choices on the part of the player.
As it stands there is no real reason to favor a faction beyond Rank 3 unless you are trying to RNG a specific reward from them. A hobby that is most likely to gift a player with bitter disappointment due to the rewards suffering from a large RNG pool that can be further RNGed by the bonuses on the item. Bungie tried to remedy this by adding commendation that can only be gained by ranking up a faction (Vanguard and Crucible included), but I don't know that it inspired anyone to grind large amounts of reputation beyond the passive gains from playing.
What I would like to see is some sort of commitment a player has to make to a faction specifically. The player could still have access to the current (let's say "public") goods and gain rank with other factions utilizing their cloaks, but the faction he/she is, we'll call it "allied," with will have an expanded inventory and services. Each Faction could have a unique service to members that expands further with their rank, and changing allied factions would come with a large Rank cost in both the Faction being left and the Faction being joined.
The incentives could be something a bit more concrete than the traditional RNG nature of Destiny since the grind requirement would be met by the need for Rank, and they (the incentives) could be something unique and custom to the faction.
Example:
Dead Orbit might enhance your ship. This might not seem desirable at first due to ships just being a fancy loading screen, but what if at Rank 10 you gained the ability to access your vault? Every five or ten ranks could bring an additional enhancement: picking up/turning in bounties, Cryptach services, ammo synthesis vending, etc. At high enough rank a Dead Orbit player could eliminate the need to go to the Tower all together.
It would be great to see some form of reward for leveling up a faction beyond the extremely unreliable RNG rewards (I got a titan helm for Rank 25 New Monarchy [I'm a Hunter]), and the small selection of purchasable items each Faction possesses. I feel Destiny would benefit from having a reward system that was slightly more concrete than the current options. Nothing that would take away from the need to do the weekly events, raids, and strikes, but something for which we players can strive towards without feeling that our hard work is akin to buying lottery tickets.
TL:DR = Why are you on a forum if you don't want to read? There is TV. Go do that.
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