You have oil? Bribe The Scavengers!

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You have oil? Bribe The Scavengers!

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Imagine that those yellow small pain in.. tanks ;) tribe people will do everything for money, I mean oil :3

During the game a special tab could be available when you for the first time will come across the yellow killers. The tab would allow you to give oil to the Scavengers to persuade them not to attack you, to attack your enemy or maybe even fight on your side! :ninja:

Or even allow you to produce their units under your factories roofs. All depending of which option would you chose, and how much would you pay. Also while with the game, the cost could increase, and the Scavengers could become more torn whether to join you or not.
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Re: You have oil? Bribe The Scavengers!

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Already working on this :) Will need some of the features of the WZ 3.2 JS API though, so unable to release anything yet.

I was thinking along slightly different lines though:

* Update the Scavs AI to work as multiple scav tribes - so each area of the map could have a scav tribe
* Scav tribes would work together as one (initially) and help each other out
* If a player or other non-scav AI starts attacking a scav tribe, the tribe might agree to "protection fees" if it feels too threatened
* Under the scheme, scavs could give the player oil or even units, possibly even sensor reports of other regions of the map in return for being "harassed less" by the player

Currently it's not possible to ally the player and scavs (or it might be, I've never tried - again requires WZ 3.2 JS API features) so player and scav troops would still attack each other. And with the scav tribes idea, it would only be possible for player to ally with all scavs, not a specific tribe (unless JS API provides features for creating new player slots, which I imagine would be more hassle than it's worth).
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aubergine those sound fantastic :)

And what if I would like to buy some resources from the Scavengers, for example women? :hmm:
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I'm not sure they could help with that currently, but I hear they do good beer.
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I have heared they can do marvellous vodka from their oil :) Also if you would like to place a gun on a motorbike, umbrella or spade. They are perfect on it :3
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