Conquest bonus as unlock?

[tacito]

I've recently gone through the rite of passage "stuff all your strongholds full of random achievement pictures until 100% reached". And even though I've never much cared for decorating the strongholds, especially my Yavin place looks like an abomination now. I'd love to get at least some actual decorating done whenever I find the time, but here's the problem:

 

As soon as I remove those 800 pictures of the Alderaan Civil War, I lose Conquest bonus. Now, I could always just look for other, more remote spaces to cram useless junk into, but it sort of feels... wrong. I thought it might be nice if we could unlock certain "milestones" of conquest bonus (perhaps at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%). So once you've reached a milestone, even if you remove all decorations from your strongholds, conquest bonus remains at the milestone percentage.

 

This would still require everyone to "decorate" at least once, but open up more options after the fact. I could also imagine connecting the conquest bonus straight away to number of available instead of used hooks, but "just unlock everything" seems a bit too easy indeed.

 

Now since I'm not exactly in the "stronghold scene", there's a good chance I'm missing something about this, so please educate me in case there's some way this would lead to problems

[SteveTheCynic]

The obvious (to me) thing you're missing is that as you dismantle your collection of junk, you replace it with a more organised set of good decoration that still uses up all the permitted hooks. Then you have a transition phase where you have a dismantled room, but that only lasts long enough for you to rebuild the room. Job done.

[tacito]

That's the requirement, though. Always use all hooks. I'm just saying it would open up more possibilities in decoration, and to me empty rooms are much less of a immersion breaker than 90 paintings commemorating my victories in story mode Eternity Vault. Or 400 circular class holo signs.

 

It's probably not the most critical feature, and I don't care too much either way - I have all strongholds fully decked out, be they pretty or not - just thought it would be a good addition. Obviously also depends on how much work it'd be to code it, but objectively I cannot see any way in which it'd break current functionality. Only open up the freedom to not compulsively cover every wall in banners and paintings.

 

I'd also love to choose in which room characters are placed when traveling to the stronghold, but that's probably a much bigger project.

[JediQuaker]

Of course, all this assumes that one evens cares about Conquest achievements or bonuses.

IF that is something that concerns you then use the above method of slowly replacing decos with better ones.

Edited November 30, 2015 by JediQuaker

[Mubrak]

If strongholds and conquest really need to be connected, just link the bonus to the unlocked rooms. There are so many cheap and free decorations that you can immediately get your 100% conquest bonus anyway.

 

With the conquest bonus no longer being dependent on placing the max number decorations, you can decorate your stronghold as you like. And hook count could be increased without having to keep the conquest bonus in mind.

Edited December 1, 2015 by Mubrak