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When you complete a quest, you won't know how long it would take to post a new job on a board. If you complete all of them you'd just be given information 'no one had posted a job yet'
if it would be too much of a hassle coding a simple message 'no one had yet posted job on a kanban' for each jb slot would be good enough for rock'n'roll. I imagine settlements have their hands full so having a prioritized backlog of issues / requests, focusing on a few most important makes a sense
But thing is: you won't know whether they have their hands full or not so here goes creme de la creme: have a cooldown time between jobs vary randomly between set of two values. Each configurable. That way you can have settlements screaming for help by setting time from 1 hour to 8 hours tops (for sake of immersion i'm going to assume job board will be checked every hour, give or take, or have settlements needing help just from time to time by setting that time from 8h to 48h
And because you won't know how long it would take to post a job, you'd be actually forced to skipping towns randomly if you want to make a living of it.
Being able to set those values for each settlement separately to differentiate between somewhat stable settlements (like Rivet City, Megaton or Novac) and settlements in dire need of help (like Big Town or Bitter Springs refugee camp) would be awesome.
And if i expand on that idea, you can tinker with probabilities certain job type appears on a board. For example, Rivet City or Tenpenny Tower with professional security probably won't need that much of Kill or Eliminate jobs but a Deliver jobs would be frequent. At the same time Bitter Springs refugee camp would need lots of supplies so Scavenge and Gather jobs would be frequent. Nellis AFB is in dire need of spare parts and for quite obvious reason they really don't need to kill, hunt or eliminate anyone. The Citadel though would obviously prefer to Eliminate or Kill.
Just an idea though :)
2 When the quest fails add an ini setting that we lose karma for not completing it with that faction. and a seperate one that makes us loose karma for quitting the job after we started it. Configurable to ON or OFF
3 Random NPC events, where an npc will spawn near us and run over to us asking I need x or I need you to do x kind of like the beggers in fallout 3 that ask for water. Adding good and evil tasks to these random spawns would be interesting too, like "I need someone dead right now" example. Which gives evil karma, or Save my husband, friend, person, from super mutants raiders which gives good karma.
4 Have those random npc events have much smaller radius then normal job board events. and shorter times to get them done before they fail. let it be configurable in the ini but like a default of 3 hours and 5 cells away or less.
5 frameworkable so people can add modded npc events, tbh idc if its even voice acted, its just a really really cool roleplay idea so I could get over silent actors
6 INI setting for an xp multiplier and money multipler for quest rewards so we can turn them down for hardcore playthroughs, or up depending.
1. Provide support for FPGE and The Living Desert. For example, if the Khans or Legion are eradicated as a result of siding with the NCR, then you shouldn't be able to do notice board quests for the Khans or Legion anymore.
2. Add a setting in the ini where if your overall reputation with a faction is negative or is at least Vilified, you can't do any radiant quests for that faction anymore or until you have somehow gotten positive reputation and have reached at least Wild Child.
Freeside, Westside and The thorn could maybe give you a quest to clear some part of their underground sewer which players rarely explore.
Having to maintain relations with settlements/factions by doing some work in their name over the course of a playthrough makes quite a bit of sense and would fall in line with the whole choices and consiquences NV is known for. You'd get rewarded by free stuff or just overall better prices or something, but those perks would be lost if you let them be lost or if you move to the Mojave/CW.
But that would maybe be more fit for the Reputations author to implement.
I can definitely see this as being anti-fun for some tho, having to constatly back-paddle to maintain it all seems a bit hardcore-ish in nature.
As a safeguard against it becoming too tedious or hardcore to maintain, I wonder if it would be possible to establish tiered thresholds for the reputation decay, making it so that your reputation can only drop by one tier if you go too long without helping a faction.
In other words, If you achieve 'liked' status with a faction, over time it will eventually lower back to 'accepted', but never past that down to 'neutral'.
So the decay theshold limits would be:
Idolized can only drop to 'liked'.
'Liked' can only drop to 'accepted'.
'Accepted' can drop to 'neutral'.