Ryzom

This is not a rant/complaint/sulk/etc, its just an awareness post...

With the change in the patch to make global fame (GF) = personal fame (PF) this has interesting side effects. Today I discovered that due to the change my finely balanced Fraction fame has now made me a bit too popular with the stary eyed teddy bears.

General points of interest:

If I make friends with a new tribe my PF=GF, ok fair enough.
My Karavan and Kami fame have been forced to be equal GF=PF, again fair enough ... we are being forced into the faction wars so this is to be expected.
What does puzzles me is my race fame and other tribe fames are far from equal. Is this something that will balance out when I next speak to them or is the fame system different for existing tribes and races?

Examples:

Tryker fame +100 GF +84 PF
Kami fame +7 GF +7 PF
Cuzans +2 GF +2 PF
Lawless -67 GF -1 PF

Will we ever see the 'real' fame values or will they always be the rounded whole numbers?

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.Any new born character is now granted with a not null Kami or Karavan fame. The value is based on the civilization choosen. eg: Matis naturally have a positive Karavan fame and negative for Kami.
. Some changes were done in the way fame is addressed for Kami and Karavan, global fame is now identical to personal fame.

Discuss .....

Hmmm...I'm very confused now.

Actually, the only change that happened is litterally Kami and Karavan GF=PF. None of the others seem to have changed for me in any way.

And as to why your civ fame isn' t equal: that' s because it works differently

Tryker: 100 GF 84 PF -> 16 Starting Fame (16+84=100)

Cuzans: 2GF 2PF -> 0 Starting Fame (0+2=2)

To be honest.... I asked myself similar questions, before rereading again recent nevrax communications. Apparently, the fame system will be revamped, the current Kami/karavan PF=GF is just a hack given the current status regarding episode 2 and Chapter 3.

Somewhat annoying when a pre patch faction balance is thrown wildly awry with removal of race and guild contribution. This lil' hack for a matis is about 50 fame points difference from race alone. Not really sure why it was changed to personal when folk for the past year work on the globals if they wished to drastically change fame, to now be throw into a bit of chaotic identity crisis just prior to faction fame being significant. Still global dictates all other race and tribe fames.

I would guess this was to prevent people from switching sides simply by changing guilds. If not, it's a really good side effect anyway IMO.