What does this mean? - npcranktodiff.ini

Wed Mar 05, 2003 1:20 am by DataDroid

I was looking in the RANDOMMISSIONS folder in the demo, and the following was in npcranktodiff.ini. Any idea what it might mean?

<pre><font size=1 face=Courier>[RankAndFormationSizeToDifficulty
NpcRank = 1, 0.009850, 0.035690, 0.077540, 0.135390, 0.209230, 0.299080, 0.404930, 0.526770
NpcRank = 2, 0.013480, 0.048860, 0.106140, 0.185330, 0.286420, 0.409410, 0.554300, 0.721100
NpcRank = 3, 0.018450, 0.066880, 0.145300, 0.253700, 0.392080, 0.560440, 0.758790, 0.987120
NpcRank = 4, 0.025260, 0.091560, 0.198900, 0.347290, 0.536720, 0.767190, 1.038700, 1.351260
NpcRank = 5, 0.034570, 0.125330, 0.272280, 0.475400, 0.734710, 1.050210, 1.421880, 1.849740
NpcRank = 6, 0.047330, 0.171570, 0.372720, 0.650780, 1.005750, 1.437630, 1.946410, 2.532110
NpcRank = 7, 0.064790, 0.234860, 0.510210, 0.890850, 1.376770, 1.967970, 2.664450, 3.466210
NpcRank = 8, 0.088690, 0.321500, 0.698430, 1.219480, 1.884660, 2.693950, 3.647360, 4.744900
NpcRank = 9, 0.121410, 0.440100, 0.956080, 1.669350, 2.579900, 3.687750, 4.992870, 6.495290
NpcRank = 10, 0.166190, 0.602450, 1.308780, 2.285170, 3.531630, 5.048160, 6.834750, 8.891400
NpcRank = 11, 0.227500, 0.824700, 1.791590, 3.128170, 4.834450, 6.910420, 9.356080, 12.171400
NpcRank = 12, 0.311430, 1.128930, 2.452510, 4.282160, 6.617880, 9.459670, 12.807500, 16.661400
NpcRank = 13, 0.426320, 1.545400, 3.357240, 5.861840, 9.059210, 12.949300, 17.532200, 22.807899
NpcRank = 14, 0.583580, 2.115490, 4.595720, 8.024280, 12.401100, 17.726299, 23.999800, 31.221701
NpcRank = 15, 0.798870, 2.895900, 6.291090, 10.984400, 16.975901, 24.265600, 32.853401, 42.739399
NpcRank = 16, 1.093570, 3.964190, 8.611870, 15.036500, 23.238300, 33.217201, 44.973000, 58.506001
NpcRank = 17, 1.496990, 5.426580, 11.788700, 20.583500, 31.811001, 45.471001, 61.563599, 80.088799
NpcRank = 18, 2.049230, 7.428450, 16.137600, 28.176800, 43.546001, 62.245201, 84.274399
NpcRank = 19, 2.805190, 10.168800, 22.090799, 38.571301, 59.610199, 85.207497
NpcRank = 20, 3.840020
NpcRank = 21, 5.256610
NpcRank = 22, 7.195770
NpcRank = 23, 9.850290
NpcRank = 24, 13.484000
NpcRank = 25, 18.458300
</font></pre>

Edited by - DataDroid on 05-03-2003 01:21:11

Wed Mar 05, 2003 1:26 am by freighter fighter

im guessing its the missions the npc's give you?

Wed Mar 05, 2003 1:32 am by Tachyon

I think it determines the difficulty of the mission that NPCs will give to you, based on their rank?

Wed Mar 05, 2003 1:33 am by DataDroid

Ah, you may be right, I suppose those numbers would be the random reward multiplier.

Wed Mar 05, 2003 2:06 am by Tachyon

No, payment is in a seperate file. I modded all missions to give me like a million dollars, hehe.

Wed Mar 05, 2003 8:59 am by Hardeyes

My guess would be that the table enumerates the difficulty of the mission (which you see when selecting a job) based on the NPC's you encounter. E.g. if you meet up with a formation of 3 rank 10 NPC's the difficulty would be 1.308780 if you then encountered 6 rank 11 NPC's the difficulty would raise by 6.910420 for a total of 8.21920 displayed as "Difficulty: 8" Just a guess though. You'd have to test it with a mission you completely figured out to see how the numbers add up (and figure out how the NPC's are ranked etc.)

Juz my 2cents worth...

Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:52 pm by DataDroid

Well, the fact that there are several numbers would seem to indicate that there is some random selection going on, probably difficulty multiplier.

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