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How do the dark side and light point values work?

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I'm curious as how the LS/DS values work in the KOTOR series. Is the morality scale a series of numbers (e.g. 0 being full dark, 50 being neutral and 100 being full light?) And are there point values for your responses in game? Example: +5 LS points for being kind and charitable to someone in need and +10 DS points for wounding/killing them.  

 

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The alignment is indeed a numeric value that goes from 0 to 99 (or maybe it is 100) where 0 is fully dark and 99 fully light.

 

The point changes for different replies are somewhat more complicated though. Basically there are three scripts for each side: k_act_darksml, k_act_darkmed, k_act_darkhigh and the same for light side. Which one of those is used is specified in the .dlg file. Each of these scripts then calls the UT_AdjustCharacterAlignment from k_inc_utility which calculates the actual value. That way you get more dark side points if you're light sided and vice versa.

 

If you want the exact calculations, check the k_act_darksml script etc. You can find those with Kotor Tool in BIFs -> scripts.bif -> Scripts, Source. The functions they call, can be found in k_inc_utility.nss which is also in the same path.

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That is exactly how the L/S system works in the games.

 

In fact, it's so accurate that I suspect you might be trolling

That wasn't my intent. The games were just never clear on what the morality point values were. 

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That wasn't my intent. The games were just never clear on what the morality point values were.

Can't be that unclear if you guessed the system exactly right

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In the back of the K1 manual, there is a little table which shows how much your alignment score changes from your actions, based on how light or dark both you and your actions are.

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In the back of the K1 manual, there is a little table which shows how much your alignment score changes from your actions, based on how light or dark both you and your actions are.
Ah, well that explains it. The used Xbox copy I bought from a classmate long ago didn't have the manual, so I missed out on that part.

 



StrategyWiki's Alignment page may help.
This helped out a lot. Thanks!

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