Concentration Factor (Game Mechanics)

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Description Template (Game Messages) Related Tags 0% This document has not been started. Mechanics This document is about game mechanics. Completion Guide - 0% - No substantive information available on game feature 25% - page has been started but not completed 50% - page is as complete as possible with the currently available information but probably needs more research done on the subject matter 75% - page is probably complete but needs to be reviewed for accuracy of the page content and to make sure that no information is missing about the game feature 100% - page has been reviewed and compared against enough sources to the extent that there is reasonable confidence that the game feature is completely documented. Game Mechanics The concentration factor is an element of the creature harvest formula that takes into account the resource concentration values for a creature resource. When a player extracts resources from a creature, a check is made on the position that the player is at when issuing the harvest resource command. The resource concentration value at that position is then taken and divided by a constant value and then the result of that is compared with 3 cut off points. These cutoff points are indicated to the player and more commonly known as: The creature was scrawny and unhealthy The creature was of medium size The creature was fat and healthy The cutoff point values for each result are: Scrawny: 9.0 Medium: 13.5 Fat: 15 The value coming from the division of the constant into the resource concentration percentage is checked against these cutoff points. If the value results to 9.0 or less, then the creature is flagged as scrawny. If the value results are at or below 13.5 and above 9.0 then the target is considered medium. If the value results are at or below 15.0 and above 13.5 then the target is considered fat. The messages about skinny, normal and fat are the only clues beside calculating from how much you actually get. When the concentration factor gets below 9% it is reported as skinny, when it gets above 13.5% it is reported as fat. The highest I've seen is above 15%. (The actual concentration is probably much higher and is divided by a constant value to get the factor. But using these factors instead simplifies the formula.) An example for harvesting a level 30 creature with Hunting 4 without Veghash and no droid: The breakpoint for skinny/normal is: ((45+100)/100) * 371 * (9/100) = 48 units. The breakpoint for normal/fat is: ((45+100)/100) * 371 * (13.5/100) = 72 units. Which means you will get up to 48 when it's skinny, 48 to 72 when it's normal and 72 and above when it's fat. Dungeon and cell areas do not contain resource maps, and any creature harvested in these areas are defaulted to only allowing 1 unit of resource. Source References Source Source in Context