Bribes and their rep effects

Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:10 am by bane42

Hi all,
I wanted to find out how the mechanics of a bribe affects your rep and did some searches here and couldnt find what I wanted so I did some research and now know

, so if this has been posted before sorry, if not read on;

Reps run in a range from -1 to 1
-1 is totally hostile and 1 is totally friendly with 0 being totally neutral

You can see what your rep is by looking in the game and you can see 20 bars each full bar equals .10 (+/-) The middle line is 0 neutral

A rephack for a faction adds +0.60 to your current rep with that faction

FL then goes off to empathy.ini and looks up the section for the faction u just bought the rep for:

here you will see its list of how the faction relates to each rep.
FL now multiplies each line by .6 (your improvement) and adjust each faction by the answer .

so if I buy an Outcasts hack when I am completely neutral with them, I move up to +0.6 with the Outcasts and assuming I also was completely neutral with the liberty navy I move to -0.24 with them. (see below)

the -0.24 is calculated by multiplying the li_n_grp line for the Outcasts entry in empathy .ini by 0.6

the entry in empathy is
[RepChangeEffects
group = fc_ou_grp
event = object_destruction, -0.006000
event = random_mission_success, 0.140000
event = random_mission_failure, -0.045000
event = random_mission_abortion, -0.067500
empathy_rate = li_n_grp, -0.400000<-----------------------here

-.4 so (-.4*.6) =-.24

This is repeated for all factions entered

Bane

Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:48 am by Wasabe

Just a slight correction: "A rephack for a faction adds +0.60 to your current rep with that faction"
Acutally, the rephack will raise your rep to the 0.60 mark no matter what your current rep. So if you are totally hostile -0.9, the rep hack will raise your rep to 0.6, which is a 1.5 difference. The rest is correct though. Multiply that 1.5 by whatever the empathy rate is to see how much the bribe will effect your rep with other factions.

Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:42 pm by bane42

thanks for that wasabe

Thu Sep 09, 2004 5:04 pm by bane42

*bump for mbase.ini entries

in mbase.ini the lines for a bribe normally look like this

bribe = br_m_grp, 10000, 16101 or
bribe = br_m_grp, 10000, 16100

the 10000 represents the base cost for a .1 improvement in your rep.
In wasabe's example where the bribe brings you from -.9 to .6 this is a movement of 1.5 so the bribe will cost you : 10000* (1.5*10) = 150,000
so for cheaper bribes lower the 10000 in mbases.ini

the 16100 and 16101 refers to an ids_name entry in resources.dll which displays the text for the bribe offer.

now this post is complete

Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:49 pm by k0rben

i kno is an old reply but seams current reputation has an effect also

so is not 0.6*0.4=0.24, but depends on current rep w li_n_grp

dunno how tho... im trin to find out here:

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/forum/t ... lse&S=True

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