Each week brings new objectives, see, and players vote on what their faction will get up to next week. Serving your faction will net you better deals and, interestingly, a bigger say in what they'll tackle next. Senator Denton Patreus of the Empire looks like a right dick. There are, of course, rewards.įactions are trying to build their own little empires, with their own goals, ethos, and figureheads. The 'Powerplay' system, announced last week, will let players join factions to compete and cooperate with each other in whichever way their faction prefers, whether it's economic power, military might, or goodness knows what else.
Elite will wander down this path with its next update, introducing factions which players can choose to ally with as they vie for control of the galaxy. No, grown-ups pick fights because someone else told them to. Picking fights is a lark and all in Elite: Dangerous, but you're all a bunch of kids playing slapsies and shovefight in the park, really.
