Talk:Combat Levels and Bounty

It should be clarified whether the blank values for "Player Bonus" on the table mean 0 or unknown. Fortuno David 00:44, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree. For what it's worth, when I mean "0", I type "0", but that's just me. Perhaps we should use "null" when a value doesn't apply or exist.--Calvin November t/c on 03:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

For threat ratings, some planes actually do have a range of ratings in which the game can spawn them. During a single flight leg in my Barracuda, I encountered a single Cyclops combat twice, one was regarded level 6 while the other was level 7 (with 0 CI during the entire leg). When multiple planes spawn in a single combat, there seems to be a typical rating number used, like 1 for CR-4P and 2 for Thor. Maybe when they appear as the only plane in combat, there is more flexibility in rating for that plane? I normally see Thor as 2 but just recently got a single Thor that was level 0. Stinkypuppy 17:57, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Trader salvage bonuses
Having trouble figuring out the trader salvage bonuses from combats. So far I've been relying on the Logger at the end of battles to tell me what the trader's salvage bonus is for that combat, expressed as a decimal. However, I could swear that I've seen two different values for level 2 and level 3 at King Slime Happiness. The lower value for level 2 I saw during a patrol in Midgard; the higher value was from a combat during a normal flight leg. The higher value for level 3 is from a normal flight leg. Unfortunately I don't remember where I saw the 3.25%, but I know for sure that my trader was King Slime Happy that time, having recently split profit with him and making him ( I suspect) turn King Slime Happy from Very Happy. Is there a range of percentages that the bonus can be, or is it situational? If anybody has some info that would be great, this article is getting complicated. Stinkypuppy 16:43, 29 January 2009 (UTC) Recent combats: L4 Trader Blah (overall Happy) = 3% bonus L4 Trader KSH (overall Very Happy) = 3.5% L4 Trader KSH (overall Happy) = 3% L4 KSH (overall VH) = 3.75% @ Steppe L4 KSH (overall VH) = 3.75% @ mid-flight L4 KSH (overall KSH) = 4.75% @ Luz conclude: Stinkypuppy 04:21, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * overall morale factors into the bonus, not the trader's own morale
 * bonus percentages are a range (e.g. 3.5% to 3.75%) for a given morale level
 * location (skyland vs. mid-flight) is not a factor in bonus calculation