I just had inspiration, I used to play a game before that had an awesome feature skill called “Socialite” where you’d work to become a renowned person amongst the community etc. For each level you’d gain perks to aid you, such as percentages of sales from NPCs, New Emotes, Costumes and Interactions with players.
What if we had such a skill where when leveled up, you become famous across Tyria, amongst NPCs of course, but also gain a variety of perks. Of course, I can’t think of many, but i’m sure ANet would think of something. I was thinking in order to level up your socialite skill, you get assigned tasks from a socialite master.
These variety of tasks could have requirements. Here is an example of a task I randomly made up: “Spread the Love”: Explore your local area and gift a rose to every woman that passes you by. (Purchase roses as a skill item from masters or farm roses from certain locations in Tyria like Divinity’s Reach gardens etc.)
I also have the idea that every certain milestone within the skill when you level, you gain a perk or some form of reward related to the skill, rewards that continue to aid you in leveling the skill. For example at level 50 you gain new fashion, that when worn, will appeal to the eyes of all who pass you by, gaining you a boost when performing your socialite tasks. Of course it then gains you cosmetic rewards to keep
Also leveling up unlocks interactions with other players such as “Embrace”, “Hug”, “Kiss”, “Dance”, “Romance”, “Flirt”, “Gift”. I also had the idea that with a high socialite skill level you and a friend can grow an in-game friendship via the skill, that after a time changes with more attention and becomes a different relationship, and the finale being “Marriage”. So you can purchase wedding packages from a socialite master and host wedding events in a personal instance where you can invite countless friends by gifting out a “Wedding Invitation” item that teleports you to the personal instance that they choose somewhere inTyria to host their wedding. It could be in Divinty’s Reach, Black Citadel or even Rata Sum.
Basically have chapels, churchs etc around Tyria in certain locations where you can host your wedding in a personal instance and hire a priest NPC to perform the ceremony for you, and have an after party at your home instance afterwards
Other interactions such as “Dance” where you join together in a dance such as tango, waltz etc, basically an emote where you sync dance together, but with a unique animation.
Hug, Kiss are basically common interactions which we’d ALL know the outcomes of xD
Embrace can be an interaction where you both accept a “Embrace” invitation and the male holds the woman in his arms or summin and can walk around with her in his arms lol until he puts her down or she climbs down.
Personally i’d also love the fake fame across Tyria with NPCs screaming “OMG IT’S [INSERT NAME HERE], ISN’T [HE/SHE] AMAZING!” you get the point lol.
But if you guys have any other ideas to add to this new skill idea, plz post (ALSO I WOULD HAVE POSTED THIS IN SUGGESTION BUT IT WOULDN’T LET ME FOR SOME REASO!
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