Re: Olympia: faction trees

From: sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin)

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1992 18:17:44 +0000

}} In article <1992Apr23.161126.13110@cbfsb.cb.att.com> skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta) writes:
}}
}} eebonar@sn01.sncc.lsu.edu (DAVID BONAR) writes:
}} > 	Persuade is reasonably obvious.  I should have thought of it.
}} > Terrorize is completely non-obvious (it also isn't that answer to the
}} > question I asked since I was just looking to raise my faction's loyalty).
}}
}} What do you mean?  Terrorize works on your faction's loyalty too.

Perhaps it's time I stepped in and said (almost) exactly what
terrorize will do.

Terrorize uses brutality to frighten a unit, and alter its loyalty.
As a side effect, it will also affect the victim's health slightly.

Now, one can only manipulate loyalty up to a certain level throuth
terror.  You can frighten someone into working for you, but you can't
convert a man to be a truly loyal minion by continually beating on
him.  He will reach a state where his terror of you is balanced by his
desire to get away from you, and his loyalty won't go any higher
(hint: this point is substantially below 100% loyalty :-).
Terrorizing highly loyal units will likely have a negative effect on
their loyalty, as they will not understand why their good service is
being rewarded with threats and blows.

Ok?  So, terrorize can be useful to up the loyalty of your units, but
only if they are not very loyal, and only to a point.

}} Rich Skrenta

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References

Re: Olympia: faction trees
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 23 Apr 1992 16:11:26 +0000
Re: Olympia: faction trees
eebonar@sn01.sncc.lsu.edu (DAVID BONAR)
Thu, 23 Apr 1992 14:04:11 +0000