Talking

Talking, called Communication on mechanoids, is a pawn capacity: A character's capacity of speech. Directly affected by consciousness. Talking is a factor of all social stats. Talking capacity is reduced by a damaged or missing jaw. Dementia also impairs talking.

At the time of writing, the maximum possible talking capacity is 262.5% for a pawn with sensory mechanites, a bionic jaw, and the maximum possible consciousness of 170%. There is however no advantage of a talking capacity above 100%.

Affected stats

Name	Type	Weight	Max	Description
Conversion Power	Stat	0.9	1	How effective this person is at converting others to their own ideoligion. When this person attempts to convert someone else, this value multiplies the amount of certainty the other person loses.
Train Animal Chance	Stat	0.7	1	The base chance this person will make progress training an animal on a given attempt. The actual chance for a given attempt will also depend on the animal's wildness, whether it is bonded with the trainer, and so on.
Tame Animal Chance	Stat	0.9	1	The base chance this person will successfully tame an animal on any given attempt. The actual chance is also affected by the animal's wildness. Failed tame attempt can induce animal attacks, especially for more vicious animals.
Trade Price Improvement	Stat	0.9	1	When this person acts as a trade negotiator, buy and sell prices are improved by this percentage.
Social Impact	Stat	0.9	1	A multiplier on how much other people are affected by this person's social interactions.
Negotiation Ability	Stat	0.9	1	How effective this person is as a negotiator. This affects the speed of prisoner recruitment, impact on faction relations when giving gifts, and the outcome of peace talks.

Factors

Pawns need a talking capacity above 0% in order to socially interact with other pawns, trade, tame/train animals, and hold speeches.

Base factors

The following factors affect Talking:

• Consciousness: 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max
• Jaw part efficiency. 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max (effectively 125%).
  • Denture: 80% part efficiency, resulting in −20% Talking
  • Bionic jaw: 125% part efficiency, resulting in +25% Talking
  • Tongue part efficiency. 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max (effectively 100%).
    • Bionic tongue: 100% part efficiency, resulting in no changes in capacity.

Offsets

The following offsets affect Talking:

• Anesthetic:
  • Woozy: −20%
• Dementia: −25%
  • Note, that as dementia also inflicts a −15% Consciousness penalty, this is effectively a −40% to Talking (assuming no other factors are involved)
• Sensory mechanites (Any severity): +50%

Post factors

The following factors affect Talking. They are applied after the offsets.

• Food poisoning:
  • Major: ×0.8
    • Note that food poisoning also penalizes Consciousness, so the effective penalty is greater than this would suggest.
• Ghoul:: ×0

Cap Modifiers

The following factor restricts the maximum Talking value:

• Trauma savant: 0%

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Stats

Capacities

Pain • Consciousness • Moving • Manipulation • Talking • Eating • Sight • Hearing • Breathing • Blood Filtration  • Blood Pumping • Digestion

Basics | Important

Market Value • Market Value Ignoring Hitpoints • Honor Value

Non Pawn Important

Nutrition • Medical Potency • Medical Tend Quality Maximum • Max Hit Points

Basics

Mass • Flammability • Psychic Sensitivity Factor • Psychic Sensitivity Offset • Neural Heat Limit Offset • Neural Heat Recovery Rate Offset • Slave Suppression Offset • Terror (Source) • Max Install Count

Pawn

Recreation Fall Rate • Sleep Fall Rate • Eating Speed • Foraged Food Amount • Minimum Handling Skill • Mental Break Threshold • Immunity Gain Speed • Pain Shock Threshold • Lifespan Factor • Minimum Comfortable Temperature • Maximum Comfortable Temperature • Injury Healing Factor • Caravan Riding Speed • Carrying Capacity • Filth Rate • Crawl Speed • Move Speed • Max Nutrition • Rest Rate Multiplier • Toxic Environment Resistance • Toxic Resistance • Animals Learning Factor • Global Learning Factor • Neural Heat Limit • Psychic Sensitivity • Leather Amount • Meat Amount • Neural Heat Recovery Rate • Meditation Psyfocus Gain • Neural Heat Gain (Factor) • Ideoligion Spread Chance • Global Certainty Loss Factor • Terror • Raw Nutrition Multiplier • Learning Rate Factor • Cancer Rate Factor • Fertility • Hemogen Gain Multiplier

Non Pawn

Construction Speed (Material Factor) • Deterioration Rate • Sell Price Multiplier • Beauty • Outdoor Beauty • Cleanliness • Comfort • Work To Make • Food Poison Chance (Food Stat) • Shooting Accuracy (Turrets) • Style Dominance

Mechanoid

EMP Resistance • Bandwidth Cost • Energy Usage Multiplier • Wastepacks Per Recharge • Control Taking Time • Repair Energy Cost

Meditation

Meditation Psyfocus Bonus • Meditation Plant Growth Offset

Terrain

Cleaning Time Multiplier • Filth Multiplier

Apparel

Armor - Material Effect Multiplier • Insulation - Cold - Material Effect Multiplier • Insulation - Heat - Material Effect Multiplier • Equip Delay • Pack Radius • Shield Recharge Rate • Shield Max Energy • Insulation - Heat • Insulation - Cold • Armor - Heat • Armor - Blunt • Armor - Sharp • Jump Range

Weapon (Ranged)

Ranged Damage Multiplier • Ranged Cooldown • Accuracy (Long) • Accuracy (Medium) • Accuracy (Short) • Accuracy (Close)

Weapon (Melee)

Melee Damage Multiplier • Melee Weapon Average Armor Penetration • Melee Damage Per Second

Building

Research Speed Factor • Max Power Output • Medical Tend Quality Offset • Work Speed Factor • Work Efficiency Factor • Work To Build • Door Opening Speed • Rest Effectiveness • Immunity Gain Speed Factor • Recreation Power • Surgery Success Chance Factor • Reading Bonus • Trap Spring Chance • Trap Melee Damage • Biosculpter Pod Speed Factor • Assembly Speed Factor • Baby Play Power • Birth Quality Offset • Genetic Complexity Increase

Ability

Detection Chance • Goodwill Impact • Effect Radius • Duration • Range • Psyfocus Cost • Neural Heat Gain • Casting Time • Psylink Level

Stuff Stat Factors (Multipliers when made of this)

Melee Cooldown • Sharp Damage • Blunt Damage • Insulation - Heat (Material Factor) • Insulation - Cold (Material Factor) • Armor - Heat (Material Factor) • Armor - Blunt (Material Factor) • Armor - Sharp (Material Factor)

Mechanitor

Mech Bandwidth • Mech Control Groups • Mech Gestation Speed • Mech Remote Repair Distance • Mech Remote Shield Distance • Mech Remote Shield Energy • Mech Repair Speed • Subcore Encoding Speed • Mech Work Speed Offset

Pawn | Combat

Stagger Time Multiplier • Ranged Cooldown Multiplier • Aiming Time • Pawn Trap Spring Chance • Incoming Damage Multiplier • Accuracy Factor (Long) • Accuracy Factor (Medium) • Accuracy Factor (Short) • Accuracy Factor (Close) • Shooting Accuracy (Indoors Dark • Indoors Lit • Outdoors Dark • Outdoors Lit ) • Mortar Miss Radius Multiplier • Melee Armor Penetration • Melee Dodge Chance (Indoors Dark • Indoors Lit • Outdoors Night • Outdoors Day ) • Melee Hit Chance (Indoors Dark • Indoors Lit • Outdoors Dark • Outdoors Lit ) • Melee DPS • Melee Damage Factor • Melee Cooldown • Melee Door Damage Factor • Shooting Accuracy Multiplier (Child)

Social

Bond Chance Factor • Train Animal Chance • Tame Animal Chance • Arrest Success Chance • Beauty (Pawn) • Social Impact • Drug Sell Price Improvement • Trade Price Improvement • Negotiation Ability • Suppression Power • Conversion Power • Slave Suppression Fall Rate • Animal Products Price Improvement

Misc

Biosculpter Occupant Speed • Growth Vat Occupant Speed

Work

Cleaning Speed Multiplier • Butchery Speed • Mechanoid Shredding Speed • Hunting Stealth • Research Speed • Smelting Speed • Smoothing Speed • Animal Gather Speed • Animal Gather Yield • Drug Cooking Speed • Drug Synthesis Speed • Butchery Efficiency • Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency • Cooking Speed • Food Poison Chance • Plant Work Speed • Plant Harvest Yield • Drug Crop Harvest Yield • Reading Speed • Repair Success Chance • Construct Success Chance • Construction Speed • Medical Tend Speed • Medical Tend Quality • Medical Operation Speed • Medical Surgery Success Chance • Mining Speed • Deep Drilling Speed • Mining Yield • General Labor Speed • Global Work Speed • Hacking Speed • Pruning Speed • Activity Suppression Speed • Study Efficiency • Entity Study Rate

Psychic Ritual

Psychic Ritual Quality • Psychic Ritual Quality Offset

Containment

Cold Containment Bonus • Containment Strength • Minimum Containment Strength

Hidden

Bed Hunger Rate Multiplier