Addrating

[The-Architect]

I can't get to the editor right now as I'm on another computer. I just wanted to know if,

Me1 addrating -1

will work. I have a player that I want to become a renegade. The Ed depot says that you can add a rating but I just wonder if making it lower than 0 will work.
Cheers.

[macguba]

Yes adding negative numbers to make the rating negative does work IIRC.   I think you need lower than -1 to make everybody shoot at you though.   Not sure.   -100 should work and -1000 will definitely work, though of course if the player is already +1001 ....

[Kyle Sarnik]

Yes adding negative numbers to make the rating negative does work IIRC.   I think you need lower than -1 to make everybody shoot at you though.   Not sure.   -100 should work and -1000 will definitely work, though of course if the player is already +1001 ....

Thats why you should use this trick:

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this addrating (-1000 - rating this)
That should work, right?  

[THobson]

As a build on the comments above.  This is some initialisation code I use to ensure the player becomes a renegade if he kills some particular individuals:

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{_x AddEventHandler [{killed}, {if ((_this select 1) == Alexi) then {Alexi addRating (-100000 - abs(rating Alexi))}}]} forEach ((units group Yuri) + (units group Pavel) + [Dourdan_Woman] - [Yuri,Pavel,Marek])

It works like a dream.  Survival time is measured in seconds if there is anyone around with a gun.

[h-]

Just to point out, -2000 is the magic number for becoming a renegade..

From the OFP 1.96 config:

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renegadeLimit=-2000;

[THobson]

That's useful to know.  I just wanted to make absolutley sure!

[The-Architect]

What about during the mission? Does killing bad guys raise your rating?

If so, Maybe I should bump it down to like 10000 just to be sure the player becomes a renagade.
Also at the end of the mission, will the renegade score affect the final score or should I bump it back up by 10000 when the player hits the end trigger?

[macguba]

Yes and yes.

[The-Architect]

Excellant. Thanks guys.

[Triggerhappy]

or you could do what was suggested earlier:

unit addrating (-10000 - (rating unit))

and that will always set the rating to  -10000

[Kyle Sarnik]

or you could do what was suggested earlier:

unit addrating (-10000 - (rating unit))

and that will always set the rating to  -10000

unit addrating (-10000 - abs (rating unit))

Should have thought of that, incase the unit allready had a negative rating.

[The-Architect]

What's the abs bit mean?

[Kyle Sarnik]

Absolute value.

[Triggerhappy]

why would you want the abs of it?

lets say they have a rating of -1000

if you
addrating (-10000 - abs (rating unit))

you end up with:
addrating (-10000 - 1000)
which gives you an even more negative number

whereas
addrating (-10000 - (rating unit))
gives you
addrating (-10000 - (-1000))

which ends you up at -10000, which is what you were going for

i see no reason why you would want to use the abs rating

[The-Architect]

Why not just,

player addrating -10000

[Triggerhappy]

what if the player has a very high rating to start?

obviously eventually you hit a point where it would be completely impossible for someone to have high enough rating to negate the addrating but still, taking away the current rating is more foolproof