new horizons reward system has greatly enhanced the usefulness of the fame mechanic in ryzom, there are more solitary homins as well as guilds now that align, even if it is primarily for the faction points, and some of these guilds may even choose to go down a roleplay path.
it is not quite fair to say that you should not align for the sake of points, true enough that should not be your only reason but i say to you, so what if it is? what if, i am happy that the empire is willing to reward good service?
the purpose of this post is to propose a scaled system so that there is a slow and steady increase in reward with fame increase
edit: i am aware of the possible significances for the cutoffs that exist right now, i approve of the fact that 51 fame is a cutoff because it "forces" you to align, yes, this is bad for neutrals perhaps, but it also opens up some opportunities, people who may never have even thought about aligning, now might consider it. and the 99/100 fame cutoff is logical since it is at the end, the 30 point one looks arbitrary. so before someone tries to point out that the 51 has a significance, just wanted to cover myself on that one
using the existing cut-offs of:
30 fame 50 points
51 fame 80 points
99 fame 200 points
we could employ either exponential or polynomial best-fit to get:
exponential : faction points = 27.6*E^(0.02*reward)
polynomial: faction points = 0.0155(fame)^2 + 0.17(fame) + 31
results are as follows:
(i am sure someone else can refine the formulas if they wish this is just a guideline, the polynomial formula as listed matches well enough for my needs here)
it is not quite fair to say that you should not align for the sake of points, true enough that should not be your only reason but i say to you, so what if it is? what if, i am happy that the empire is willing to reward good service?
the purpose of this post is to propose a scaled system so that there is a slow and steady increase in reward with fame increase
edit: i am aware of the possible significances for the cutoffs that exist right now, i approve of the fact that 51 fame is a cutoff because it "forces" you to align, yes, this is bad for neutrals perhaps, but it also opens up some opportunities, people who may never have even thought about aligning, now might consider it. and the 99/100 fame cutoff is logical since it is at the end, the 30 point one looks arbitrary. so before someone tries to point out that the 51 has a significance, just wanted to cover myself on that one
using the existing cut-offs of:
30 fame 50 points
51 fame 80 points
99 fame 200 points
we could employ either exponential or polynomial best-fit to get:
exponential : faction points = 27.6*E^(0.02*reward)
polynomial: faction points = 0.0155(fame)^2 + 0.17(fame) + 31
results are as follows:
(i am sure someone else can refine the formulas if they wish this is just a guideline, the polynomial formula as listed matches well enough for my needs here)
fame expo. poly.30 50 50
1 28 31
2 29 31
3 29 32
4 30 32
5 31 32
6 31 33
7 32 33
8 32 33
9 33 34
10 34 34
11 34 35
12 35 35
13 36 36
14 37 36
15 37 37
16 38 38
17 39 38
18 40 39
19 40 40
20 41 41
21 42 41
22 43 42
23 44 43
24 45 44
25 46 45
26 46 46
27 47 47
28 48 48
29 49 49
31 51 5151 77 80
32 52 52
33 53 53
34 54 55
35 56 56
36 57 57
37 58 59
38 59 60
39 60 61
40 61 63
41 63 64
42 64 65
43 65 67
44 67 68
45 68 70
46 69 72
47 71 73
48 72 75
49 74 77
50 75 78
52 78 8299 200 200
53 80 84
54 81 85
55 83 87
56 85 89
57 86 91
58 88 93
59 90 95
60 92 97
61 93 99
62 95 101
63 97 103
64 99 105
65 101 108
66 103 110
67 105 112
68 108 114
69 110 117
70 112 119
71 114 121
72 116 124
73 119 126
74 121 128
75 124 131
76 126 133
77 129 136
78 131 139
79 134 141
80 137 144
81 139 146
82 142 149
83 145 152
84 148 155
85 151 157
86 154 160
87 157 163
88 160 166
89 164 169
90 167 172
91 170 175
92 174 178
93 177 181
94 181 184
95 185 187
96 188 190
97 192 193
98 196 197
100 204 203