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ollestolpe

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How does OFP score system work?
« on: 09 Sep 2004, 18:26:40 »
Since there is no "general" OFP section in the forum... I put this question here.

How does the Flahpoint score system work?
Sometimes you get loads of scores and sometimes less. Does friendly kills make enemy kills show
less? Sometimes it says like 50 infantry 2 light and then 97 on total.. why?

Is there a good article on this somewhere online?

PsyWarrior

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Re:How does OFP score system work?
« Reply #1 on: 10 Sep 2004, 11:29:13 »
Greetings,

I don't know exactly how the OFP scoring system works (i.e. the exact amount of points given or deducted for a specific action), but it goes along something like this:

-Kills of enemy units grant you points. The higher ranking the enemy unit is, the more points you get. Destroying a vehicle also gives more points than killing an infantry soldier or officer.

-Points are awarded for completing objectives. [EDIT: No they're not.]

-Points are massively deducted for killing friendlies. If you kill an entire squad of enemy troops singlehandedly, you only have to kill two or three friendlies to reduce your score back to around zero. Again, more points are deducted if you kill higher ranking troops, or destroy friendly vehicles. Killing a single Colonel can reduce you instantly to the point where your own units will consider you a threat.

-If your score drops below a certain level (into negative numbers), you will be considered an enemy to everyone, including your own side.  

You can use the addRating command to add or subtract points from units. For example, the command:
_unit addRating -10000
Would make _unit an enemy to everyone (unless he had accumulated over 10,000 points).

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« Last Edit: 11 Sep 2004, 17:49:57 by PsyWarrior »

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Re:How does OFP score system work?
« Reply #2 on: 10 Sep 2004, 12:47:38 »
You also lose points if you are a squad leader and your loons get killed.

The number of points you start with is determined by rank - a colonel has more than a private.
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Re:How does OFP score system work?
« Reply #3 on: 10 Sep 2004, 13:42:53 »
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You also lose points if you are a squad leader and your loons get killed.
Oh, yeah...

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The number of points you start with is determined by rank
True, but these points do not show up in the debriefing screen. If you place down the player unit as a colonel in the editor, preview, and then abort immediately, it will read as 0 points. Presumably, OFP deducts all the points given to you when you start up before displaying the debriefing.

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Re:How does OFP score system work?
« Reply #4 on: 10 Sep 2004, 19:27:37 »
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-Points are awarded for completing objectives.

Is that true? I thought the mission designer had to use the addrating command to give you points when he decides the objective is completed?
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Re:How does OFP score system work?
« Reply #5 on: 10 Sep 2004, 20:02:16 »
No, you don't get points by completing objectives...
Needs to be done by the mission designer with addRating...
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ollestolpe

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Re:How does OFP score system work?
« Reply #6 on: 10 Sep 2004, 21:28:04 »
Thank you all!
But...
 ... what about this.

When I press "I" it says 50 infantry and 4 tanks Kills 7 and a Total of like 97..
Why is that? How does 50 infantery + 4 tanks make 97 or so in total?

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Re:How does OFP score system work?
« Reply #7 on: 10 Sep 2004, 21:40:21 »
Were any of those 'tanks' bmp's with squads in them?


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ollestolpe

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Re:How does OFP score system work?
« Reply #8 on: 10 Sep 2004, 22:11:04 »
Well.. maybe, but to match those number it would have to be like 25 people in each T72 we blow up...
It is not the people in the tanks that make the total number go up to twice as many as I've killed

I dunno if this is specific for MFCTI, but it's very weird.

PsyWarrior

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Re:How does OFP score system work?
« Reply #9 on: 11 Sep 2004, 17:47:35 »
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No, you don't get points by completing objectives...
I swear I read that somewhere, but it could be me misreading the addRating entry in the ComRef... :P

Although how I could misread it that much, I don't know... ::)

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Were any of those 'tanks' bmp's with squads in them?
But wouldn't the units in the BMP show up as kills? In SP, killing a fully manned T72 results in 1x T72 and 3x crew in your kills listing...

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When I press "I" it says 50 infantry and 4 tanks Kills 7 and a Total of like 97..
It could be that the map designer has used addScore to add extra points to your score. For instance, points in CTI could be awarded for capturing towns... I'd have to crack open the CTI pbos to know for sure, but it sounds like the mission designer has been playing with the scores...

Reference:
http://www.ofpec.com/editors/comref.php?letter=A#addScore

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