Officers

[JaM]

Is posible to change level of hired officers?Game is too easy if you could recruit too powerfull officers.I had level 2 main character and i was able to recruit level `6-8` officers... What about restrict max level of hired officers? (for example with luck at `1-5` will hired officers have max level lower than main character, with luck `5-9` they will be equal and with luck 10 they will be better +2 or 3 levels...) With too high level officers all those profesions losts its importance becouse you could have a few multifunction officers.
(or make all officers in tavern to lock at certain max level...)

thanks
boild 11.0 rocks..

 

[Sirus_Darke]

It is possible to tweak it so that the officers you hire are a lower level.
In the folder PROGRAMLoc_ai there is a file called LAi_CreateOfficer.c

Find the following entries and

if(friend)
{
 nRank = makeint((pRank/2.0 + Rand(pRank) + (pLead / 3.0) + (pLuck / 3.0)) * (2.0/3.0 + (4.`0-makefloat`(GetDifficulty()))/5.0) + 0.5);
}
else
{
 nRank = makeint((pRank/2.0 + Rand(pRank) - (pLuck / 3.0)) * (2.0/3.0 + ((makefloat(GetDifficulty())-1.0)/5.0)) + 0.5);
}

You'll have to work out what to change it to as I'm happy with how it's been set up now and I don't want to change it on my game.

 

[JaM]

thanks

 

[NathanKell]

Set difficulty level higher before talking to an officer. Level of friends is higher, and enemies' lower, at lower diff levels, and vice versa.

 

[NathanKell]

Technical explanation coming. :

<!--`QuoteBegin-Sirus_Darke`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sirus_Darke)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->It is possible to tweak it so that the officers you hire are a lower level.
In the folder PROGRAMLoc_ai there is a file called LAi_CreateOfficer.c

Find the following entries and

if(friend)
{
 nRank = makeint((pRank/2.0 + Rand(pRank) + (pLead / 3.0) + (pLuck / 3.0)) * (2.0/3.0 + (4.`0-makefloat`(GetDifficulty()))/5.0) + 0.5);
}
else
{
 nRank = makeint((pRank/2.0 + Rand(pRank) - (pLuck / 3.0)) * (2.0/3.0 + ((makefloat(GetDifficulty())-1.0)/5.0)) + 0.5);
}

You'll have to work out what to change it to as I'm happy with how it's been set up now and I don't want to change it on my game.[/quote]

nRank is the desired rank.
bool variable Friend says whether NPC is officer or not.
pRank is rank of player
pLead is player's Leadership
pLuck is player's Luck
GetDifficulty returns 1 to 4, depending on difficulty level (Apprentice = 1)
Rand(n) returns a number from 0 to n.

So, to dissect the officer side:
Rank = ( (player rank / 2) + (random number between 0 and player rank) + Leadership /3 + Luck / 3) x (2/3 + ( (4 - Difficulty) /5 ) )

 

[NathanKell]

Or, rank is basically 1/2 your rank _plus_ anywhere from 0 to your current rank, plus leadership and luck bonuses.
Then, it's scaled by anywhere from 1.267 (apprentice) to 0.67 (swash)