Difference between revisions of "Beauty"

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Beauty is the unseen game mechanic that controls Characters' needs for a nice place to live. A character with a higher beauty value is in an area with decorations and pretty structure, and feels better than another character with a low beauty level.

Levels of Beauty

Characters' beauty level is grouped into seven thresholds: Hideous, Very Ugly, Ugly, Normal, Pleasant, Very Pleasant, and Beautiful. Each threshold exhibits different effects on a character, especially their Thoughts.

The beauty levels are as follows:

Label	Beauty
Hideous Environment	Less than 15
Very Ugly Environment	15-30
Ugly Environment	30-42
Normal	42-58
Pleasant Environment	58-70
Very Pleasant Environment	70-85
Beautiful Environment	Greater than 85

Measuring Beauty

Beauty Perspective Zone

Humanoids take regular looks around their environment. Each time, they look at every object and square of flooring within their perspective zone - a circle of about 2 squares:

  X X X
X X X X X
X X H X X
X X X X X
  X X X

Where 'H' is the humanoid and each 'X' is an observed square.

Squares outside the room the humanoid is in are not part of the perspective zone.

Calculating

 Beauty = (Total of objects' beauty constants / Number of objects in perspective zone) + 50

When sleeping, the humanoid's beauty is the default: 50.

The beauty constant of "Filth" objects that are outdoors are multiplied by 0.3 during this calculation (because humanoids generally don't notice dirt on the ground outside)

Beauty Constants

Each object is labeled as one of the following constants, and the number associated is what is used when calculating the average for a humanoid's beauty:

Beauty Constant	Value
Horrifying	-500
Hideous	-200
Ugly	-60
UglyTiny	-12
Neutral	0
NiceTiny	12
Nice	60
Gorgeous	200
Enchanting	500

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