Suggestion: Freeing slaves can provide first militia rank

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JohnBWatson
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Right now, freeing slaves provides very little reward, relative to the tremendous to high reward of donating them, selling them through abuse of the 1 slave bug, or feeding them to the fabricator. While I like that the 'good' option is not definitively the best, giving the player more choice, it might benefit from being a bit more balanced, so that it isn't universally undesirable either.

For that, I suggest giving the player an honorary militia rank upon freeing a certain number of slaves at a Militia station, similar to how the Fleet offers a rank to players donating medical supplies as thanks. It makes sense in terms of plot, after all - you'd need to have taken out a fairly well defended Sung station in order to get slaves in the first place.
NMS
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It might also help if donating slaves weren't by far the best (practically the only) way to get Domina powers. If contemplating or donating money or other items actually gave a relevant amount of Domina XP and slaves gave less, for instance.
JohnBWatson
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NMS wrote:It might also help if donating slaves weren't by far the best (practically the only) way to get Domina powers. If contemplating or donating money or other items actually gave a relevant amount of Domina XP and slaves gave less, for instance.
Absolutely. That'd be a huge improvement to the Domina power balance.
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