Idea for small scale gangs

We should have more small time street gangs. Like say their total numbers are like 12 strong, maybe write a script so that when you talk to them, and say something like...

Player"Yo G, you hook me up wit some V-202?"
Ganger A responds with "That will cost you 1000 chyen"
Player pays ganger and takes his V-202 from Ganger A.

I'd say more about, but maybe when I get home.

By Biohazard at Oct 8, 2004 5:22 AM

Or, you could buy drugs from the PC dealers out there.

By Hirononbu at Oct 8, 2004 9:43 AM

The idea's got a lot of merit.

The gangers could sell it on the streets, but deal it in quanity to a few select players, who could in turn undercut the gangs.

Talk about it some more. Let's see how you would design this script.

-Kevlar

By Kevlar at Oct 8, 2004 10:17 AM

On the gangs idea, we could get some of the smaller gangers roaming the streets, just like the ambient population but with a table of possible actions (scripts) about what he would do randomly. Something like:


if NoEnemyAround then   r = random(x);
   if r = 1 then 
      callScript(randomWalk)
   else if r = 2 then 
      callScript(graffitiTag) 
      callScript(randomWalk)
   elseif r = 3 then 
      callScript(inciteChaos)
      callScript(randomWalk)
   elseif r = 4 then 
      callScript(shoutObscenity)
      callScript(randomWalk)
   elseif r = 5 then
      callScript(mugNearestPerson)
      callScript(runAway)
   endif
else
   int n = callScript(countEnemy)
   int a = callScript(countAlly)   if n > a then
      if n/a > 3 then
          callScript(runAway)
      elseif n/a > 2 then
          callScript(callForBackup)
          callScript(kickEnemyAss)
      endif
   else if a > n then
          callScript(kickEnemyAss)
   else
          callScript(callForBackup)
          callScript(kickEnemyAss)
   endif
endif

(Disclaimer that isn't Babble-On just some lazy way to show a logic)

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