ProjectGorgon:Favor
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Favor represents your relationship-status with NPCs. Favor is raised by giving specific gifts to NPC's, according to their likes and dislikes, and completing quests as well as hanging out with them. Some NPC's favor requests are much harder than others, this is intended.
Raising your favor with any given NPC can earn various benefits:
- Their money pool increases so that you can sell more items before they run out of councils.
- At the same time, they will pay a larger maximum amount for an item that they are willing to buy.
- Various services, including:
- Training in unique abilities and recipes not available elsewhere.
- Consignment - a sales service, somewhat similar to auction houses.
- Storage - 10 slots of storage.
Selling prices
Until you reach high favor with a merchant NPC, a small exclamation mark icon (!) next to your items informs you that the NPC will not pay full price for this item.
Generally you'll want to gain high favor with most NPCs, however it is worth noting that some NPCs will buy a great variety of items, or buy items that sell for a good price (such as weapons and armor). The location nearby to a dungeon or a teleportation circles can also make certain NPC merchants much more useful.
Relationship levels
By reaching 100% favor you'll take the relationship to the next stage. Each tier of relationship has diminishing returns. The different stages of relationship you can achieve with an NPC goes as follows:
| Despised | ⇐ | Hated | ⇐ | Disliked | ⇐ | Tolerated | ⇐ | Neutral (starting) | ⇒ | Comfortable | ⇒ | Friends | ⇒ | Close Friends | ⇒ | Best Friends | ⇒ | Like Family | ⇒ | Soul Mates |
To get from Neutral to Comfortable requires 100 favor.
To get from Comfortable to Friends requires 200 favor.
To get from Friends to Close Friends requires 300 favor.
To get from Close Friends to Best Friends requires 600 favor.
To get from Best Friends to Like Family requires 800 favor.
To get from Like Family to Soul Mates requires 1000 favor.
To get from Despised to Hated requires 1800 favor.
To get from Hated to Disliked takes 300 favor.
To get from Disliked to Tolerated takes 200 favor.
To get from Tolerated to Neutral takes 100 favor.
Total Favor
The total favor required to obtain each rank is:
| Level | Favor required |
|---|---|
| Despised | -600.1 or less |
| Hated | -600 to -300.1 |
| Disliked | -300 to -100.1 |
| Tolerated | -100 to -0.1 |
| Neutral | 0 to 99.9 |
| Comfortable | 100 to 299.9 |
| Friends | 300 to 599.9 |
| Close Friends | 600 to 1199.9 |
| Best Friends | 1200 to 1999.9 |
| Like Family | 2000 to 2999.9 |
| Soul Mates | 3000 or greater |
Hanging Out
NPCs in Project: Gorgon are a cool bunch and most of them want to "hang out" with you! They will reward you with Favor as well as miscellaneous rewards in theme with the activity you selected.
You don't need to remember to do that every time you log off by the way. You can chose an "Hang Out" activity with any NPC as you play, and the last one you selected will be active once you log out. You also don't have to worry about logging back in sooner (whew), the activity will continue next time you log out.
Gifting Mechanics
There are two principal ways of gaining favor with an NPC. The secondary method is performing a limited number of Quests (favors). Once these are exhausted (or sooner if some quests are undesirable or too difficult to complete at some stage of the game), the player is left with the primary method of gaining favor: giving gifts.
When the player engages in Small Talk with an NPC, she learns the NPC's loves, likes, and occasionally dislikes. (Some of these preferences may remain hidden until a higher favor level is obtained). Loves and likes correspond to Keyword Categories. An item in a category the NPC like or loves will have a positive effect on Favor for that NPC, while a dislike or hatred will have the opposite effect.
For example, Velkort "Likes Exotic Potions", "Likes Unusual Animal Trophies", and "Hates Food". (He also has a hidden like that the player doesn't discover until reaching [Comfortable].) In game mechanical terms, this means his favor will go up when presented with an item with the keywords "Potion" ([[ProjectGorgon::Category:Items/Potion|:Category:Items/Potion]]) or "CorpseTrophy" ([[ProjectGorgon::Category:Items/CorpseTrophy|:Category:Items/CorpseTrophy]]) or down if offered a piece of [[ProjectGorgon::Category:Items/PreparedFood|:Category:Items/PreparedFood]].
The amount of favor earned with an NPC for an item depends on the Keyword Category and is proportional to the value of the item. For example, Velkort gives around 6-7% of a potion's value in favor and about 4% of a corpse trophy's value. (Anecdotally, e.g., 33 for a 500 value
and 0.2 for a 5 value
. The percentages quoted here are based on experimental results and are not exact.) Perhaps surprisingly, this ratio does not seem to be necessarily higher for Loves than for Likes, even on the same NPC.
There are a few exceptions to this rule, as some items have Keywords that alter their value when used for gifting. For example,
in the category [[ProjectGorgon::Category:Items/Figurine|:Category:Items/Figurine]] has the Keyword "Figurine=50", while
has the Keyword "Figurine" (without an equals sign). The value of the goblin figurine is 10, while the value of the brass figurine is 200. When gifted, however, the goblin figurine will act as though it had a value of 50, so a single brass figurine will provide as much favor as only four goblin figurines, not twenty.
For NPCs who like fish as gifts, gifting filleted fish will result in more favor.
Further information on Keywords can be gathered from items.json and npcs.json in the public data at http://cdn.projectgorgon.com/, or possibly through third-party (generally player-authored) tools.
Favor from gifting can also be increased by raising the statistic "Favor Earned From Gifts", viewable on the General Stats tab of the Persona screen. Typical ways of increasing this stat are Civic Pride (offers 5% at the current maximum level of 50), Notoriety (up to 15% at level 93), and occasional Weekend Event bonuses.
Favor Guide
Please note that some NPCs do not have favor options yet.