Maybe introduce team fight expeditions?

Currently, we have NPC expeditions, but what if users could form a 5-man team and take on high-level NPC targets or complete combat-related tasks together within a time limit, similar to the existing expeditions?

I think this could be a good way to encourage battle-stat growth, co-op gameplay, and provide another method of gaining reputation.

To prevent it from being exploited or spammed, each team expedition could have a fixed duration and cooldown, just like the current NPC expeditions, so the team can only start another expedition after the previous one has finished. The co-op aspect could mainly revolve around completing a shared set of missions within that time limit.

The missions could vary from attacking a very high-stat NPC character, mugging players, selling weapons through an arms deal, or selling drugs through a drug deal, similar to the types of objectives we already have in NPC expeditions.

The expeditions could reward reputation, cash, higher-tier weapons/drugs depending on the expedition level, or potentially new items that are planned to be added to the game.

As for the potential complications, the game already tracks missions for players individually as well as globally, so I would imagine tracking the progress of a shared mission for a 5-member team shouldn't be too complicated, especially if the co-op system is primarily based around shared mission completion within a fixed time.

I think it could be a nice co-op addition without requiring too many complex new systems. Although I'm not a developer, so I may be underestimating how complicated it would actually be. 😅