[GarethOmni]

Gangs do need a point, but how are we going to accomplish this?

One Idea I've had was to give each "gang base" a territory.

Bare with me, this will take some explaining.

Alright, so we know how most crime groups have some way of making an income right?
The mafia extorts businesses, etc.

So what if we had certain gang bases tied to say, a weapons shop that was npc ran, and helped provide income and a "certain" unique but not overly useful item for sale.

Not only that this would give raids a reason, at certain times of the day other gangs would have the opportunity to gain raiding points on that base. At the end of the week or what have you, the gang that has the most raiding points or succeeds in obtaining enough points now gets ownership of that base and their old base goes to the losing gang.

Perhaps you could have a system where a gang would have to declare war on another in order to "activate" the raiding process. This would create the need for alliances, truces, naps, and other pacts that could be created by gangs. They could use their "positions" of economic power to negotiate alliances with other gangs or exploit their new territory in order to take a new base that might make something they want. (Such as a food item or maybe even just cheaper ammunition) I'm not exactly sure what items would belong to each territory, or even what kinds of shops would be used. Perhaps you could even create a market for raw materials and have a territory affect the marketing capability.

Need gun parts? Well guess what, Black Holst controls their territory so they make and sell those parts. Not only to BH members get a few bucks off the price, they get to put some of the proceeds to supplies, and arming members.

It's almost like KOTH, but gives the victorious gang more than just bragging rights.

I would just hope that if this idea got implemented, that each territory would have an equal advantage and most of the gang's success would depend on the quality of their members.

This would really give raiding and "declaring war" on other gangs a great meaning. I mean, back in the day it was always BB warring with Tachi or BH fighting LC. There were hours of smack talking in masses and they just had some kind of hate between each other. But that's gone, and now they don't see much of a reason in fighting each other unless they gain something from it.

So I say we give the gangs of Era a reason to do this.