Maybe this is the same as the experience bar at level 50+. When you hit 50,
the bar keeps moving, but when it "should" ding into 51 it doesn't, it just
keeps invisibly moving out to the right. I've spoken with guys at level
"51+" that said that when they die in Hate or Fear they don't have their bar
drop due to this invisible buffer. It kinda makes sense that faction works
this way too, both in the positive and negative directions. i.e. you bottom
your faction out and stop receiving messages, but the faction in actuality
keeps getting worse numerically. Therefore when you start to improve your
faction you don't actually recieve improvement messages until the faction
'bar' starts moving.
Crier
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Honeyman [mailto:honeyman@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 2:00 PM
> To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Re: Subject: RE: Re: RE: Sol Ro Temple Quest
>
>
> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
>
> > Things have changed (bug or nerf or just me?) but killing
> gnolls only lowers
> > my gnoll faction - but then someone pointed out that my other
> factions maybe
> > maxxed out and that is why I no longer see any raises for the other
> > factions.
>
> There is not a one to one matching for faction adjustments.
>
> For example (and I have tested this):
>
> Kill corrupt guard McCluskey, always lowers corruptqeynosguards.
> And I've killed him more than 300 or 400 times, easily.
>
> Killed Guard Justyn, raises corruptqeynosguards, lowers qeynosguards.
>
> Kill McCluskey again _does not_ raise qeynosguards back up.
>
> You cannot just beat the crap out of McCluskey and expect to
> get your faction back with Justyn. At one point it started
> to work, but when you max out (theorectically) in one direction
> the opposite doesn't affect it. I say theorectically because
> my faction still says it is lowering with corruptguards, yet
> I know for certain it's completely max'd out at the low end.
>
> You can try this with Gnolls too.
>
> Do something that pisses off the MerchantofQeynos (with a completely
> max'd out high favor with them) and then kill a Gnoll, you will not
> redeem positive merchant faction.
>
> Not sure why this is, but it happens to all factions when they are
> at the most imbalanced status.
>
> Harmonic.
>
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