» Sun Nov 28, 2010 1:22 pm Wow! loads of ideas thank! Sadly, some of them beyond my skills though.
Oh, I'm full of ideas. For others...
About the youth and the elderly: Not everyone uses Children of MW, so I've made the nursery as an optional room, but I was thinking of a COM addon (something about the maid's nephew recently orphan, a troubled teenager in need of guidance). As for the elderly, I know I should add some, as it is all my staff is young and gorgeous... will change some of them as I develop their personality.
Sounds great. I'm not asking for loads of children, but a few would liven up the place.
I've recently started a new game and haven't got far enough to try your Staff Agency mod yet, I haven't even got a place to stay unless you count Crosades' lice-ridden and moonsugar-stained skooma-infused bed.
About chosing the employees: I decided against giving the choice of race/six apart from the courtesans so that I could give a background story to each of the staff.
I thought that might be the case, and fully understadable.
However, to include the races in this mod would mean increasing the size of the download (it's going to be huge already) and Westly's races in particular are intented for his Elseword mod so I doubt he's give persmission (with good reasons) and finally, custom races might not please everyone.
And I should have though of that before I posted.
About the staff: you already need to hire the staff (you need gold and some tools for them) and sack them. I have not implemented a promotion system (even though the Staff Agency already has a factionof its own). The happiness value I can do, if their disposition falls too low, the employee will simple leave.
My desire for a promotion system is that I think it could make the task of managing the estate more realistic. Say your guard captain dies, do you hire a new one or promote one of the normal guards? If you decide to promote a guard, who do you choose? You've already said the staff will gossip about each other, this could be a good way of putting that gossip to good use when you decide which guard becomes your next captain. I'm not sure why a specific guard would be better than another though, so this may well be overkill. I see the Staff Agency doesn't have Guards and with only one person for each position this idea doesn't make much sense. Perhaps something to implement if you decide on adding multiple people in a later version, so ignore for now
There will be requirements to build certain parts of the estate like have min. 30 alchemy skill to build the lab, have a certain amount of reputation to build the feast hall, be a vampire to build the crypt as well as hve the gold, the workforce, the construction permit... Also, the amount of employees you may hire will be limited until the servant's quarters are built.
All good ideas. I remember reading about another mod (Building up Uvirith's Grave?), where people actually seek you out and ask if they can build a temple or tavern or what have you. I obviously don't know what the exact scope of Pegasus Estate is, but a largeish estate could have a small shrine and Guest house/Inn.
Like I said, it's a very ambitious mod so I'm taking it one step at a time, releasing small mods along the way so I get feedback and a chance to track possible problems.
Ambitious indeed! And I think your plan on releasing it in bits and pieces as it were is a good one.
