Rhialto Posted May 28, 2017 Report Share Posted May 28, 2017 As the title asks. Will this have Y2 rewards? Also, must one be the top scorer in the exams to get any in-game reward, or is it sufficient to be near the top? And will there be rewards for each course so excelled in, or is it only for overall performance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted May 28, 2017 Report Share Posted May 28, 2017 Yes there will be upsides and downsides in be the best. First natural there will be students envy of you and might do everything to replace you as best in year 2. Then have a look at my year 2 topic about the planed extra class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted May 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2017 I just finished a playthrough in which my character gained top marks for all final exams - no student had a higher grade. The social and adventuring life of my character was non-existent. I hope that in Y2 being such a good student in Y1 will have rewards. If we were to have a Y2 Course list, we could better understand the significance of having an extra course slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted May 30, 2017 Report Share Posted May 30, 2017 Rhi; Well, there's top marks, and then there's top marks. There's a minor reward for breaking the system utterly, but it's nothing earth-shattering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted May 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2017 What is the difference between the two types of top marks? And what is the reward? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deciduous Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 How do you know you have the top mark? You just check that you had the highest score on the final? Or is there a special message? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted May 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Yes, I checked my character's final exam score against those of others in all of the character's classes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Rhialto; The reward hasn't been revealed yet, alas! Deciduous; Although you can find out yourself, your character will learn in game via their report from the University over summer vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Also keep in mind that to find the real score counting for year 2 you also have to calculate the mid term exam in. Check out Exam Dates and Details at the Wikia Exams: Guide there you see that for some class the mid term result make up to 20% of the final result for year 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 You can check out my Gradebook thread if you're interested in calculating your class grade from both exam results. It requires inputting a lot of data, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deciduous Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Are the mod tools capable of picking out the top 5 scores from an exam? If so, this is going on my "to mod" list. How does this sound: Midterms: +2 Merit for top scorer in an exam, possibly a memory for later use. +1 Merit for 2nd through 5th. Finals: +5 Merit for top scorer +4 Merit for 2nd etc This seems the sort of things Merit gets used for. Additional complications would award further Merit if a character got the top mark in 4, 5, or all of her classes. Players would get a nice summary message. Characters would get a reward for their hard work. Colleges would have further reason to celebrate the efforts of their most studious. (Top 5 is chosen arbitrarily. I can also see having a top 5 for midterms to encourage people and a top 3 for finals.) (If the program can support it, ties would push the next rank down. So, 2 people tie for 2nd, the next qualifying rank is 4th. But multiple people can share last place, so 3 people could tie for 5th which would allow 7 students to share the top 5.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metis Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Sadly, the mod tools cannot do anything with exam scores. As far as I know, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 We suggested get merit for high exam scores years back and got parental approval for max study instead. So no unless they rewrite part of the game code it appears to be impossible even for BCS them self. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deciduous Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 That makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 Exam scores are only for Y2, really. If you do badly, you get punished in Y1 but that's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avigor Posted June 11, 2017 Report Share Posted June 11, 2017 So there is something special for spell-buffing your exam scores to 300+ then? Interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted June 11, 2017 Report Share Posted June 11, 2017 No there isn't even in the recalculation of your year 1 exam score at the start of year 2 you probably still best of the year with a average exam score of 150. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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