Ok, i didn't see anything relating to this which is why i created this post, but anyways...im trying to work out the equation for the bribe costs in mbases.ini so that i don't have to 'plug & chug' to get a desired value. the code looks like this:

bribe = li_p_grp, xxxxxx, 16100

where xxxx is some sort of multiplier for the bribe cost...but what've found is that when xxxx is equal to 12, the bribe cost is 100. when xxxx is 120, bribe cost is 1000 and so on...anyone have any ideas on how the game gets these values? i've tried many things, but the other values don't work with them...following is a list of some of the numbers i've tried:

Entered -- Returned
1 -- 8
2 -- 17
3 -- 26
4 -- 34
5 -- 43
..........
12 -- 100
13 -- 110
14 -- 120
15 -- 130
16 -- 135
17 -- 145
..........
110 -- 960
120 -- 1000
..........
945 -- 8200
946 -- 8200
..........
950 -- 8300
..........
999 -- 8700
..........
1200 -- 10000

it's pretty weird...