man-man Posted:

If we think the system involves tiers of items, and selection from within those tiers and complicated stuff like that, then I’m going to need to change how I record these runs.

Then you’re going to need to change how you record these runs.

IIRC, Charisma bumps you into brackets of possible deliverables, with a range of variety. Luck determines where in the bracket you get your stuff from.

(Numbers below used for example purposes only, and are not to be bumumed to be correct in any way shape or form. Theory IS bumumed to be correct.)

So let’s say there’s a bracket for Charisma 1-5, and in it are these flezz groupings:

1) 100-200
2) 201-400
3) 401-600
4) 601-800

Luck 1-5 means your deliveries come from group 1, 6-10 from group 2, 11-15 from group 3, 16-20 from group 4, with a randomization factor within the grouping of what specific items you get.

The Charisma 16-20 bracket has these groupings:

1) 1000-2000
2) 2001-4000
3) 4001-6000
4) 6001-8000

This is why we see Charisma as more important than Luck. You’d rather get 1 item from Charisma 16-20 and Luck 1, than 2 items from Charisma 1-5 with Luck 4.

What I think we’re trying to spade in this thread is:

1) What numbers define the Charisma brackets

2) Which items fall in each Charisma bracket

then

3) What numbers define the Luck brackets

4) Which items fall in each Luck bracket.

This will be a long, arduous process, especially when Ep3 comes out with presumably more junk and more brackets. But hey, what else are you going to spend your time on?