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Contraband Concealment (sucks)
SporksAreGoodForYou
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2/23/2015
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So, in "The Revenue Men" (when you hit london), they'll search your ship for hidden goods. It's a veils check, which is affected by Contraband Concealment. It's *only* used if you select the "Set Something Aside" option. It's not used for any other option.
The formula for that check is this:
(25+(Menaces: Suspicion*40)-[Contraband Concealment]) * 1.68
(the 1.68 converts the behind-the-scenes value into an actual skill value.)
This means that with, say, menaces 2, the skill requred in-game is 176.
With Contraband Concealment from the Concealed Compartment (it gives 20), it drops to 143.
Here's a little table with more detail.
| Menaces | Challenge Score | Concealed | Stat Required | Stat w/ Conceal | | 1 | 65 | 45 | 109 | 76 | | 2 | 105 | 85 | 176 | 143 | | 3 | 145 | 125 | 244 | 210 | | 4 | 185 | 165 | 311 | 277 | | 5 | 225 | 205 | 378 | 344 |
It seems to me like the concealed compartment is totally, totally worthless.
edited by SporksAreGoodForYou on 2/23/2015
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Gregg Johnson
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2/24/2015
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It may be concealed but that doesn't mean they can't find the compartment.
What chance of success does the challenge score actually represent? 70%? 80%? It looks to me like the Concealed Compartment is effectively a +33 Veils on hide checks, which iono, seems like quite a lot? At least, when it's useful. The rest of the time obviously you'll want to have something else equipped.
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WormApotheote
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2/24/2015
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Veils is a broad 60 stat, so basically, when your stat is equal to the challenge difficulty, you have a 60 percent chance of success.
And it scales linearly with 0 veils being 0 percent chance of success, and 5/3rds (1.67x) of the difficulty being 100 percent chance of success.
The concealed storage reduces the challenge difficulty by 20, so for 100 percent success rate its effectively 33 points of veils. If you're going for 60 percent success rate, it'd be 20 points of veils. Etc.
edited by WormApotheote on 2/24/2015
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