A Black Market

[chatcast]

I think something like a black market would really fit in a game like Kenshi. For instance, if a you have a bad reputation with a faction, you can bribe the faction's high officials or hire an assassin to kill them through the black market.

The black market would also be the place to buy slaves and certain illegal drugs/chemicals without having to train/make them yourself.

Basically, The black market should be a place where you can buy and sell anything illegal and ask for certain favors.

[Tolwrath]

Well, it would certainly give you another place to shop if you somehow made enemies of all the major city controlling factions or the trader's guild.

[RighteousSinner]

hmm... I suddenly have an idea for a mod expansion...

[philthymcnasty]

while it sounds cool,

how can you have a black market if there really isn't a central order?

[chatcast]

while it sounds cool,

how can you have a black market if there really isn't a central order?

By central order, do you mean someone to run it?

Despite my description of the black market, I would consider something like a black market to be more of a network than a location. I don't think there should be any central order to a black market. Just a combination of traders and people in high places providing services that no one else will.

But like most things, I'm sure that factions would try to control it. Some factions would be dependent on it because everyone else hates them. So you could say whoever controls the black market or dismantles it would do the same to those who need it to function.

TL;DR I think that the black market wouldn't have any central order only factions/traders that influence it.

[RighteousSinner]

TL;DR I think that the black market wouldn't have any central order only factions/traders that influence it.

It really depends on how organized you envision it to be. I'd say the larger the market is, the more of an actual faction it would become. I suppose you could even think of it as the bandit version of the Traders Guild.