This past week Iron Banner got released again in the tower and in response i created a post on how i was tired of Iron Banner and wished for something new or different. (thanks you for the awesome feed back and replys, almost 100). After reading people's thoughts and rants i came up with an idea that i hope many of you like. Iron Banner is nice and gets you away from your normal grind of Pvp and Pve bounties. But honestly Iron Banner is just the same gameplay and boringness of your everyday grind. So what if we had an event that added a little more competition and reward into Pvp. What if there was an event that was a competition between the different factions? Dead Orbit, New Monarchy, and Future War Cult. Heck maybe even also throw Iron Banner into it. What do you mean by competition? Well i'll tell you. What if all three factions were set up in different corners of the event area and just like Iron Banner had their own armor, shaders, emblems, ect. that are exclusive to that event and that event alone. And to compete you choose one of the three factions . When choosing a faction you are given a set of bounties to complete in the crucible just like Iron Banner and maybe even a class item to represent that faction while playing. When you complete a bounty you increase your rank for that faction in that event unlocking items to buy (again just like Iron Banner). SO what makes this any different from the Iron Banner event? Well you see the ranking system is there to reward those who stick with that faction and actually spend time competing in the event. But the change i would make is that in order to rank you dont have to finish the bounties, just by competing while representing that faction you receive some rep after every match even if you loose. Example: You loose a game you earn 10 pts of rep, If you win you receive 20 pts of rep. This helps those who have trouble completing Pvp bounties because they aren't that skilled in the crucible, still rank with that faction. You keep using the word compete. What do you mean? That's right, Its a competition, that means each faction is trying to beet the other faction. Now this part i havent quite decided how it would work but here are a few ideas i think it could work. 1. Matches could consist of factions vs factions, so for example guardian's from dead orbit vs guardians from New Monarchy. (the issue with this is matchmaking would probably be crap and what if there isn't enough people from one faction playing compared to the other). Its a cool thought but to be honest i do not see it working. 2. Matchmaking works the same as any crucible game and you could get matched with other guardians of different factions. And if your team wins the win goes to each guardian on that team and to their chosen faction. 3. The event could be confined to Free For Alkl type games or 2 vs 2, or some sort of small teams games so matchmaking isnt an issue. -Again anytime your team won you receive more rep for that faction and maybe XP for winning as a faction. What about the bounties and rewards? Back to the bounty system, Every time you complete a bounty it gives you rep with that faction and XP just like any other bounty does but this time, as the bounties get harder you also receive rewards from those bounties, from that faction. To go with that as well, every time you rank with that faction you get a reward, like faction shaders, class items, synths, maybe even weapons the higher you ranks or even engrams. (be cool if those rewards were exclusive to that event, like Iron banner or the Queens bounties). As for bounties it would start out easier then get harder/tuffer. First bounties could be win 5 rounds representing your faction then move onto 10, 20 , 35, ect. Or another bounty tree could be kill 5 guardians from one of the other factions. again progressing, 10, 25 40, ect. Or if your team consists of people from different factions a bounty could be assist (blank) faction in killing guardians from (blank) faction. Something along those lines. Every time you complete a harder bounty rewards get better, so maybe after beating the first tear of bounties in that line you get XP. Second time you get a faction shader, third an engram, fourth a weapon, and so on. Another cool feature could be each faction had its own faction leader board to keep track of where you are at compared to others. Then maybe a overall leader board so people can keep track, then a faction leader board of what faction is in the lead or in last. Again this is where i dont know quite how i would handle it, but after the competition is over the winning faction gets something. Second gets something and even third place could get something. Now im not sure if it should be a reward like exclusive event weapons or armor or what ever but to prevent people from complaining they weren't in the winning faction maybe make the reward a class item or syth or something like that, or a shader. or maybe even a consumable like in other games, kind of like the pumpkin heads or even a consumable that just shows you were on the winning team for 24hrs or something. Again when you get into it, what if more people joined dead orbit then new monarchy and thats why they won the event. Well a fix could be the game only looks at the top 100 event players and chooses the wining faction from that. Also if every faction wins something there wouldn't be as many complaints or if the winning teams prize wasnt something incredibly awesome like en exotic, people might not complain. This sort of event promotes team work, gets people into Pvp, and adds a twist and fun back into the game on occasion. Im more of a Pve guardian but an event like this would bring to Pvp more often. Tell me what you think! Good idea? What would you add or take out? Tell me your thoughts :) ps - this is just an idea and yes... you can only choose one faction ever time the event came around.