Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-198.180.129.13-20190429142225

so we have already experimented with alternate ways of hiring units with the rohan shieldmaiden. i purpose some other ways for some factions to hire certian units, besides, it does not make that much sense lore wise that you could just pay an uruk to fight for you forever.

rule by strength.

faction, all orc factions with camps, dunland, morwaith.

orcs respect one thing, power, and the powerful are the ones who end up leading. the morwaith and dunlandings would most likely respect power as well above all else.

when a camp (tavern/fort for dunland and wherever the unit hiring area is for the morwaith) spawns there would be a small chance that a chief/strongman would spawn, if you have the minimum alignment to hire a unit from a captian (so the alignment needed to hire a basic snaga for isengard) you could right click the chief and there would be 2 options, "talk" (he says something) and "challenge" if you challenge the chief he becomes hostile and is like a miniboss, with buffed health, attack, armor and ect. if you kill him all nearby npcs within 20 blocks and any npcs that were spawned as part of the structure that you had the alignment minimum to hire would join your side, you would be the new "boss." if you lost you would lose alignment similar to if you died to a bounty hunter.

an alternate version of this could be for certian good factions, not as a duel to the death but until one side yields, like  those mock battles done by knights to make sure they were in good shape when there were no wars to fight.

fending off an invasion

faction, any that is in an invadable territory.

if you have killed at least 40 alignment worth of npcs from an invasion once that invasion ends any allied unit that is part of a faction that is enemies with the invading faction that you have met the alignment requirement to hire within 30  blocks or so of the invasion spawnpoint joins your army. the logic is that random gondorian soldier nearby who just saw you kill 20 or so orcs with minimal effort would likely see you as a hero and wish to join you.

thanks for saving me!

faction, most good factions, all mannish factions except barbarians like dunland.

if an npc has 1/4th or less of his max HP remaining and you kill 3-5 enemy npcs or creatures within a 10 block radius of that npc he will have a chance of joining you because you just saved his life and wishes to repay the debt he owes to you. obviously the chance would be lower for more proud factions such as elves or dwarves and nonexistent among orcs. it would be higher among more honor bound factions such as the swan knights of gondor. obviously you must have the minimum alignment needed to hire that npc.

a reward for a challenging quest.

this would act almost exactly like how you hire shieldmaidens. if i asked a man to go kill 30 hill trolls and he came back with proof that he did it, i would sign up to that guys army because he is clearly somebody who knows how to fight, how to lead and most importantly is loyal to my people

constructive critisism is highly requested, and if you have any ideas for this you are free to post them. 