Cheer & Boo commands
Sway the crowd

+1 some megastar having so many groupies even if the performance is shit they still cheer them anyway

I do like the RP opportunities it could create, though.

What I mean by that is, if someone has say, arbitrarily, 20 UE into artistry for a performance, if the entire room is cheering you on you can get a 25% boost, so now it's like you have 25 UE into it. Enough to maybe take it from a mid performance to an actually decent one, but not enough to make a bad one good. But it can make a good performance great, or conversely, make a decent performance kind of shit.

Most performers are only so powerful and if they are up against a larger group or even a circle of friends they are then at risk of being booed off the stage at every single performance. You can't brute force your way out of that or even really retaliate in kind because those responsible may not be as easy to affect. If they are also a performer that may be different though.

What's more likely to happen is performers try their best to appease whoever could make it more difficult for them to even get a coded positive reaction from an audience. I just see this as being too easy to use to snuff out someone's ability to be on a stage.

Everything that you listed as a potential downside seems like a laundry list of exactly the kind of conflict that people are hoping for.

Getting booed on the regular? That's a challenge.

Beat them up. Have someone else beat them up. Pay them off. Perform somewhere that they don't have access to. Etc.

If a system like this were ever implemented, I would hope that audience participation would be a factor, but not the deciding factor. Maybe the audience can influence it one or two degrees in either direction.

If the performer is horrible, maybe their fan squad can get them up to medicore, but still bad to the point where NPCs are reacting negatively. If the performer is a super star, maybe their haters can pull them down to , whatever is still better than neutral.

Generally speaking, I think in a game like Sindome, characters should the ability to influence the ambient population, but not override it. I mean this specifically in the context of coded systems. A character might have half of the Mix believing that they are the best fighter in the world. But if they get curbed stomped in UMC because their stats and skills are trash, the opinion of other characters is irrelevant. I feel like coded performances should be the same.

I am imagining one of those meters in a side mission minigame, neutral in the middle and good and great on the positive side and poor and terrible on the negative. This is getting a bit into the over-theorycrafted weeds for a simple idea admittedly but if there was just either two cheers or two boos registered for any given performance then at most the concern would be having two supporters or detractors to cancel out or improve or diminish a performance.

Like when you write boo, it makes you into booers, in cheers the cheerers, and then when background crowd gets animated it reflects the proportionality.

That also leaves people freedom to poste clapping/jeering at whatever pace makes sense, mechanical crowd aside.

Oh, and I love that idea so much.

I don't think "people are conflict averse, so adding new tools for conflict is a bad idea" tracks for me, though.

I also don't think booing performers off stage will happen very often, but there may be concerted efforts to hire hecklers to try and damage shows without going with a molotov.

I feel like assuming the worst case scenario and balancing off of that causes new features to die before they are even released, like with how corporate projects were essentially impossible to steal due to how many stipulations were attached to them in the design process in order to seemingly prevent hellish what-if scenarios. If that makes sense.

That said, staff discussed this today and it generated some ideas and interest. We may revisit this at a time where our resources are less strained.

Feel free to keep discussing. :)