Suggestion: Cartel Retaliation System

Id like to suggest adding a Retaliation system for Cartels.

Since Cartels can have up to 80 members, it would be interesting to give members a reason to defend each other when one of their members gets attacked.

How It Could Work

When a player attacks and hospilizes a Cartel member, that attacker becomes a Retaliation Target for the victim's Cartel for 5 minutes.

If another Cartel member hospilizes the attacker during this period, they receive a reputation bonus, such as 1.25× the normal reputation.

For example:

Player A hospilizes Player B
→ Player A becomes a retaliation target for 5 minutes
→ Player C, from B's Cartel, hospilizes Player A within 5 minutes
→ Player C receives 1.25× reputation

Retaliation Cooldown

After a successful retaliation, the attacker would have a 5-minute retaliation cooldown before they can become a retaliation target again.

This would prevent the system from being abused through repeated attacks while still allowing retaliation to happen again if the attacker continues attacking Cartel members after the cooldown.

Retaliation Achievements

It could also be tracked as a lifetime statistic, with achievements for reaching certain numbers of successful retaliations.

For example:

• 10 Retaliations

• 50 Retaliations

• 100 Retaliations

• 250 Retaliations

• 500 Retaliations

• 1,000 Retaliations

This would give players another long-term milestone to work toward while encouraging Cartel members to actively defend each other.

Overall, this would give Cartels more of a sense of teamwork and make attacks against their members more meaningful, while rewarding players who react quickly and defend their Cartel mates.

THORN_IRONCLAD - 19/09/2026, 20:06:16

Interesting idea! Upvoted.

Did it came after our recent interaction btw

It would change the meta of the rep farming community for sure

So we can med like one hit you one hit me and get add bonus? I mean defender get bonus on retal ?

So it is a cool idea. But recent conversations are pointing in the direction of less rep grinding from attacks. Idk which direction we should go, but this does sound like a fun interactive way to get people in cartels looking out for each other.

So it is a cool idea. But recent conversations are pointing in the direction of less rep grinding from attacks. Idk which direction we should go, but this does sound like a fun interactive way to get people in cartels looking out for each other.

DAS_DADDY - 19/09/2026, 23:47:37

Give that hosp rep is already about 33% lower, a +25% bonus would still be less than leaving and thefore not that useful for rep farming (unless it's achievement farming too).

Like the idea.

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I'm all for it providing it cannot be used for rep farming - that **** has been exploited enough as it is.

I'm all for it providing it cannot be used for rep farming - that **** has been exploited enough as it is.

KWYY - 21/09/2026, 00:38:57

what else can we reward it? to avoid the abuse i thought of a retal cooldown, and remember hosping gives very diminishing reward compared to attack leave