IDEAS FOR RYZOM

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)

fame	expo. poly.
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

 30     50     50

31	51	51
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

 51     77     80

52	78	82
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

 99     200    200

100	204	203

+1

Maybe not such a fine-grained system, but even an increase/decrease of reward every 5 fame points would be nice.

i just suggested a formula because its probably easier to program than to put

if 5 then
if 10 then
if 15 then

at least that's my experience with the little rpg making ive done in my time :P

i agree, because then it works as you work.

I don't really care about a change, just want to mention that there is no fame reward at 99+ fame (no, it's not the 100 fame cap, you just don't get any fame reward after hitting 99). That's probably the reason for the big reward increase at 99 fame.

100 fame requires that you do missions to get he last fame point, takes about 15 bandit missions, 10 kill kipee missions, several hunter missions... all together for one way of many..... you get the idea.
i have a 100 zorai toon :)~ (just not IRC) (it can be done in one day, or you can do crafting missions.

Are you talking to me? If you do, i can't see what that has to do with the topic or what i said.

anyway.... what ever the reason is for the cutoffs, i cant think of any downsides to scaling the reward (if it can be easily programmed)