So I see the vendors in the game are good, however, the specific faction vendors you join, really have no purpose other than to be somewhat unique. You might as well go with the standard crucible or vanguard vendors, because they always have 1. A larger selection of stock, and 2. Easier obtainable gear
For a faction, you actually have to PAY to get in, for something you can just earn at the normal vendors, so why join a faction?
Well, I'm here to try and change that.
Let's start with cosmetic items. All the factions in the game have their own cloaks, marks, and bonds. Obviously, if you've joined a faction, these aren't always the best looking compared to something the speaker could give you. And beyond such, you can't earn faction rep any other way. So we should have upgrade able cosmetic gear, so if I was part of new monarchy, at level one I would have access to that crappy titan butt towel, then as I go up to say rank 5 or 3, I would have access to better looking marks.
Another thing we could change is that, taking a page out of iron banners book, we could have emblems and shaders give slightly bonus reputation to your faction, again granting a purpose to use such
Out of cosmetics, the weapons each faction has can be fun and interesting to use, giving faction colors and skins, but obvously we have probably all seen the hidden ones, like the future war cults conduit pulse rifle, or the dead orbits fusion rifle, however we are never able to purchase items, like the new monarchy's prudence sniper. So I propose we have rotating faction weapons. This would be a reset every week or every month, and would give two primaries a special and a heavy. This grants a more meaningful wait to the gear that factions have
Then, with each expansion we could have new faction weapons, like a future war cult auto rifle, or a new monarchy pulse rifle.
Another idea I propose is that ships and shaders always look nice, but what if RNGseus wasn't so kind to you, and you never acquired one. Well, say you reach future war cult rank twenty or so. You should have access to a select few shaders, and at level thirty, the ability to purchase a ship. This grants actual progression and care about how high your rank is.
Then there's faction armor. Currently, nobody gives half a crap about faction armor, probably because the raid makes some of it highly irrelevant, and just to be a starting point to get into the new raid. So what I propose is that when you get to a certain rank in faction status, you gain a access to more powerful gear, or, you could upgrade your gear with the materials from the current raid. This would grant a little bit more choice and customizability in the game as of now.
All of this is thinking a little too inside the box. So something we could have is faction exotics. These weapons would be specific to their own faction, and could only be gained by getting to a high enough level within a faction, say level 35 or 40. Which is a little high, but these exotics should feel like their special to you and your preferred faction, granting specific perks and boons you could be given. The cost of a weapon could be one exotic shard, materials from the raid, a medium sized sum of glimmer, and a faction weapon of your own.
We could also include armor exotics for the faction as well.
Another thing we could have is faction bounties, things such as "kill ten guardians bearing the dead orbit mark" or "capture 5 control points with the new monarchy mark" these would grant exp bonuses, faction rep and maybe a mark or two.
Other things that seem unlikely, but possible could be
1.Re rolling weapons
2.Vanguard marks and crucible marks for purchase
3.Faction sparrows
4.Faction wars
5.Quicker rep gain with each cosmetic faction item or rank
6.Faction story missions
So just imagine your character decked our In bright blue red and gold
Or black and white
Or red and white
Imagine your faction.
So to recap on ideas
1. Special marks, bonds, and cloaks
2. Emblems granting rep
3. Rotating faction weaponry
4. New faction weapons
5. Earned ships and shaders
6. Special faction armor
7. Faction exotics
8. Faction bounties
9. Miscellaneous ideas
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Um yes YES TO ALL!!! Good shit bro.
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Mostly good ideas there.....the trouble is Activison.......you have to prove that these changes will make them money.