Advanced Inns and Tavern concept

blabafat

I like this

TheShadowScout

Gidorick wrote: »

Well, TES DOES have a prostitutes guild. That could be a perfectly viable game mechanic but our society is a bit too juvenile and prudish to allow such things in an MMO

...and a pity it is too.
I mean, its not like we want actual pornografic scenes, but a well done and tasteful depiction of mature themes... (and yeah, prostitution is one of them. The suggestive comments in the Ebon Flask are a good start, but not nearly enough for my enjoymewnt of gritty and immersive settings...)
...take a look at TV series like "Game of Thrones", see how they do it well. Not throwing in nudes and sex scenes every episode in hopes to boost their ratings, but not turning away from depicting it when the story demands it either.

Personally I would love to see them make the most of the "M" rating they got now, but I can understand that they might feel uncomfortable with that, considering how many... cerebrally deficient yet overly self-rightous people might start verbal attacks like back in the day Mass Effect dared to show an alien sideboob during a romance scene...

Anyways, one step at a time. Inn improvements first, hopes for more mature themes later on, I'd think...
(Because who knows, they might make some extra "naughtyness pack" DLC someday to refit this... one can hope... )

Gidorick

@TheShadowScout I was thinking something along the lines of prostitutes in some inns and if you rent a room from the innkeeper, and then also request the service of a prostitute he or she will follow you to your room for logout. When you log back in you have an even greater rested bonus than before, but if you do that you risk getting a disease that you would have to deal with. Players utilizing the prostitution guild line would have things like group buffs, skills that agro mobs but they won't attack you (kind of like a daze), skills that get them better prices, chances to talk their way out of confrontations with guards. I don't even think it needs to go farther than heavy flirtation as far as what the player actually sees.

Cathexis

Inn Fisticuffs? I am all for this thread.

Stikato

Love all of this. Hurts that there isn't more stuff like this in games today.

Luigi_Vampa

ZOS could you just hire @Gidorick as like an immersion-fluff creator /supervisor / consultant... whatever. The man knows his stuff.

TheShadowScout

Gidorick wrote: »

@TheShadowScout I was thinking something along the lines of prostitutes in some inns and if you rent a room from the innkeeper, and then also request the service of a prostitute he or she will follow you to your room for logout. When you log back in you have an even greater rested bonus than before, but if you do that you risk getting a disease that you would have to deal with.

That would be one danger. I'd like to see others... like a chance for loosing an extra bit of gold as someone leaves while you are sleeping with your purse... or having an "ambush" fight right on login as some associates of the nightflower you went to speel with try for a bit of robbery as well...

Gidorick wrote: »

Players utilizing the prostitution guild line would have things like group buffs, skills that agro mobs but they won't attack you (kind of like a daze), skills that get them better prices, chances to talk their way out of confrontations with guards. I don't even think it needs to go farther than heavy flirtation as far as what the player actually sees.

That sounds reasonable. Personally I would be for straining the limits of the "M" rating, but that's me, I like things extra gritty, bloddy and naughty. Might not be everyones preference.

Add to that, players with the skill line moving into a "logout room" with a grouped player, and logging out there as well for giving the abovementioned buff without dangers...
Oh, and definitely access to a special vendor who sells "revealing" civilian clothing to roleplay the, well, role properly...
...
...Damn, now I want a skintight light leather armor set and a ineffective but fun whip weapon to be in the game too

dafox187

the taverns do always seem kinda useless this would make me actually go to them

TheValkyn

Social point system like in SWTOR? Group up and gain points towards stuff (fun cosmetic armor, mounts, costumes etc.) that a special vendor sells. Being in a tavern could give you a rested bonus of 2x social points.