Mod Idea [territory war between factions]

[makesdamoney]

im not a modder just a mod lover with an idea, but no way of making it happen other than posting it in a forum for some brave modder to take over.

 

i wanted a mod with 2 or 3 join able guilds that have wars with each other for control over territories over cyrodiil that also contains features listed below

 

members of opposing faction attack player on sight

faction member body guards or followers

extort businesses in controlled territory

faction based armor for ranks/faction you joined

faction headquarters

ability to recruit NPC's to your faction

faction fences

maybe races classes and birthsign's depending on what faction you want to join

 

if any one knows of a mod like this or want to make one please post or email me at [email protected]

 

if your planning to make one like this it might need OBSE to work, just a tip

[Vagrant0]

if your planning to make one like this it might need OBSE to work, just a tip

That's a pretty baseless assumption. Nearly everything you would need to do can be done with normal scripting functions, and everything else can be worked out by using other vanilla game mechanics.

 

The real problem with something like this is that it just doesn't work out well within the game. Even if you were alright with towns people getting caught up in the fighting, dying, and ruining that town, the game mechanics end up making something like this far less cool than it would seem. NPCs only fight eachother if the player is there to see it. If the player isn't there, nothing happens. In other words, either the player would physically have to participate in every battle (no different than the player and some companions running amok in a town), or a series of scripts would have to simulate the battle. Furthermore, due to how the game does not handle more than 10 actors in combat at a time very well, any sort of attack would be more like minor skirmishes, and generally lack the interest people playing such a mod would want. Even if most of what you were wanting was just to give the "impression" of a war, you'd either end up with something fairly close to the whole fighters guild Vs. Blackwood questline, or just something which requires far too much micromanaging to be practical within Oblivion.

 

It could certainly be done, but it is arguable as to what benefit if might have compared to other mods which allow companion recruiting and add many new NPCs.