Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32871201-20190712172623

I write this because i don't find in the wiki how exactly the new alignments work, so what follows is based just on what i saw playing. When i had not pledged to any faction i had many factions with positive alignments. I wasn't even in a certain faction, but an independent pirate (other custom factions can relate to this problem, and many other players). I was positive with all harad, all Rhun and the free folks of the West, adding Isengard. I had to delete alignment with morwaith, half-trolls, isengard, gondor (to keep my umbar city). Then i saw that there was still some faction draining alignment, and they were Rohan and Rhudel, that seems quite strange to me (considering that even Dale and rhudel are not mortal enemies and Esterlings killed Dalish King...). Still, even if i understand why this feature has been added, i think it has to be improved. Also look at the contradictions in the mod: Dorwinion merchants still go trading in Gondor and Harad, two mortal enemies. Dalish merchants go in Rohan and Dunland. Harad Merchants visit Erebor and Dorwinion, mortal enemies of Mordor. It's clear they don't really care about the war between the two. (Not speaking of Oddment Collectors). So please make the alignments drain only for the pledged faction's enemies. That allows: -Playing in the (quite hard) pacific mode trying to getting positive alignment with everyone to travel safely and use all crafting tables. -Trading with factions that are mortal enemies of each other but not for you. -Being in custom factions with less problems. Not fixing that will only emphasize the war aspect of factions and their divisions, while the mod has a lot more than that.

Another problem of this feature is with Dunland. The bandits (as I call them) of Dunland have two allies: Durin's Folk and Isengard. Durin's Folk and Isengard are now mortal enemies. Having positive alignment with mortal enemies factions drain the alignments of both factions. So now a dunlending bandit must choose to being friend with only one of his two allies. This can be fixed by putting Durin's Folk in Isengard's not-mortal enemies or removing dwarves from Dunland's allies. However it indicates something is wrong in draining alignments. 