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ekks! all political standings now 10

mave nave
mave nave
Old Shoe

Oct-22-2006 01:09

I work hard to maintain my standing with my factions only to log on this morning to see that they have all been reduced to 10...

No, I did not just 'forget' to monitor them closely, I especially went to London to assure that the ET was happy with me (ie 14 yesterday).

I feel robbed; what other rules have changed?

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biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Oct-22-2006 01:51

Nothing has changed, Mave, the number drops when the clock resets, but usually not by that much. Maybe you had a case slip through that we negative and didnt know it. I'm not sure of the exact formula, but I do know it can't go any lower than 10 without you working a negative case or doing a job for another faction.

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Oct-22-2006 01:56

I'm not sure if a decrease from 14 to 10 is typical at the lower end of the scale, I mean, I know standings can drop by 5 or 6 when you're up in the 40's, but I 'thought' it was only one or two when you're hovering in the teens.

IF you had a faction standing of say 20 and it decreased to 10 overnight I'd submit a bug report!

reda
reda
Well-Connected

Oct-22-2006 03:15

Dont forget that there was a change: doing a faction case that was positive to one faction used to not affect the other faction. Now it does! The other faction will drop. Same with quiting a case.
So it's much harder to keep several factions happy.

mave nave
mave nave
Old Shoe

Oct-22-2006 03:39

None of the above solutions seem to fit; I thought, though I could be confused, that when you were in a city where a particular faction IS NOT located, the points do not go down:

Sitting in Delhi but points for Eastern Triads went from 14 to 10; I won't quibble about the DAB and CoL decreases ;)



LilRach
LilRach
Well-Connected

Oct-22-2006 10:24

no matter which city you are in, if you have higher than 10 faction points with the faction, your points will decrease at midnight.

For example, I travel to Shanghai with +13 Socrates and I have +15 DA. The next day, both will decrease, even if they are not located in Shanghai. Once they reach +10, they will not decrease.

I am not sure why they decreased by so much, but they should have decreased by 1 or 2.

Lil

LilRach
LilRach
Well-Connected

Oct-23-2006 10:11

Any news?

Dogberta
Dogberta
Nomad

Oct-23-2006 13:51

It seems to me that you can get faction cases on archvillain hunts - but the lady with the magnifying glass never appears. You can tell only by looking at the case page. I'm not sure if they count, though. The same thing happens on favors, but they don't affect your score.

So if you were doing AV cases, perhaps you could accidentally lower your faction standing without realizing it?

Nurgle
Nurgle
Well-Connected

Oct-23-2006 14:18

I can confirm Dogberta's information as I noticed the same thing. No lady with magnifying glass but still losing faction points. All of the twists from normal cases get replaced by villain hunt twists. So you have to check the Case tab after a twise to see if it is a faction case.


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