Family Favor & Compensation
Family Favor: What You See Is Now What You Get
No favor rules have changed. Your earnings are calculated exactly as before. This update fixes what the game shows you.
(See end of this Gazette for relevant compensation)
What was wrong
Family Favor has a daily limit. Your first 4 Favor each day is earned at full value, then gains slow down in steps:
- First 4 Favor: 100%
- Up to 6: 40%
- Up to 10: 5%
- Beyond 10: 0.5%
This limit has always existed and resets at midnight server time. The problem was that cards, strips and previews ignored it. A crime card could say +0.010 Favor when, late in your day, you were actually getting +0.001. This was reported as favor going missing. Nothing was missing. The game was showing the full amount instead of what you'd actually receive from the diminishing returns which has existed since August 11th (P1 launch).
What's fixed
Every Favor number in the game now shows exactly what you'll receive, including your bonuses and the daily limit:
- Careers: the Favor strip on each career card
- Crimes: the Favor strip on each crime card
- Rackets: the Family Business Favor pills
- Smuggling: item card estimates and the shipment summary
When the daily limit is reducing a reward, you should see it more clearly, e.g. +0.038 with the full amount crossed out and 40% today next to it. The numbers update live after each crime or shift.
Tips
- Earn your Favor early in the day. Your first 4 count in full.
- Favor from races, missions and events doesn't count towards the daily diminishing returns limit.
- Your Family Favor ledger has always shown correct totals. The only exception was a recent fix where the panel did not support 3 decimal places so a 0.003 would display as a 0.00. That's resolved.
TLDR; the favor you was gaining last month in your ledger is exactly the same as you are gaining right now. The patch is a display only patch to show correct favor figures outside the ledger. The "Family Favor" panel now has a tooltip also.
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Now, I can understand completely why this may have caused confusion within the community and looks like we have made changes to reduce the amount of favor players are gaining - but I want to reiterate that this is not the case and no calculations what so ever have been changed.
I take full responsibility regarding Diminishing Returns and it's lack of insight & visibility over the last ~3 months. We have only ever spoken about Diminishing Returns on two previous Gazette's (August 10 - P1 Patch Notes & Sept 12 - New Ways to Run Your Rackets) and that's not good enough!
Due to this, alongside with this Gazette; we have distributed the below compensation for such lack of information surrounding such a crucial game mechanic.
- +5 Favor to all 5 Familys.
- +5 Vigilante Shards across all 5 Familys.
- Rułer