Is there a faction system?

So I just read one of Tiy's posts about races and their crafting, and this line caught my eye:

Source: http://community.playstarbound.com/...me-way-not-just-look.10570/page-6#post-315900

That seems to imply some sort of faction and reputation system that hasn't been announced. (Or at least I haven't heard of.)

Has anyone here played that old Sid Meier game Pirates? At least in the reboot (Dunno about the 80's original), there was a constant state of diplomatic flux between the different nations, whether they were at war, neutral to each other, or had a peace treaty. For example, if the British were at war with the French, you would gain faction standing by attacking their ships and towns. Likewise, the French would eventually place a bounty on your head and you'd have to sneak into their towns if you wanted to do anything there.

That lengthy example out of the way, is there something like that planned for Starbound? Will the races have politics that determine war and peace? Can they send you on missions to raid colonies of other species? Will there be a "space pirate" faction that all races are enemies of, but has special rewards if you get on their good side?

 

the only thing i read was that you can raid villages. ill read this later xD

 

I'm guessing that they are just "bad guys" from the player factions and you kill them and get loot.
...and possibly steal their funky blocks and furniture.

 

No guarantee.

 

I feel like I heard somewhere he talked about groups of npcs that would be working together, similar to what you're thinking. But as far as entire races forming alliances, or warring against each other, I think they said its not currently in the game, but they haven't decided one way or another.

 

Randomly generated NPC Villages and dungeos. This does not really imply faction/rep.

 

I hope that we can also get these by not being all murder-y?

 

Trading/purchasing, I'm sure

 

Will the game only have main/story line quests or will it also have side quests?Could be another possibility !

 

It's gonna have a main quest line, and I'm pretty sure it will have some side quests, too.

 

The NPCs you rescue and populate your home planet with may give you quests, too.

 

If by faction you mean killing a ton of a certain race for furniture designs, yes there will be factions.

but seriously each race is its own "Faction"

 

One thing i would like to see it "War Crimes" maybe the race are neutral to the player at the start but if you start messing with them or murder their kind they put a bounty on your head.

 

I feel like this might already be in consideration. If I had a source, I'd give it, but I only have a hazy idea of seeing something like that mentioned in an ama or something.

 

I really hope so! I loved that game