how about armor? does it matter? or just weaponsAs an exercise, I've been trying to write my own job performance calculator, in python, based on data that can be extracted from the save html file. The goal is basically for the code to extract NPC data, calculate something based on a prompt, sort the calculated values for every NPC and print them for the user.
One thing I've discovered so far is that the wiki is even more out of date than I previously thought. Second is, there's lots of weird quirks in the code that I also had no idea about.
Like, did you know that the guard power is strongly based on the kind of weapon the NPC has equipped even if that NPC is not skilled enough to use it in actual combat? The wiki says nothing about this. My Lovisa, who is completely unfit for any combat and has the guard power value of 1 (which is the base value) can get a value of 11 if I equip her with a power katana and a coil gun. Even giving her some garbage pistol and knife gets her to 5; sledgehammer (which she absolutely cannot use lol) brings her up to 6. An NPC with no weapon equipped gets a -1 penalty so it's absolutely necessary to have any sort of weapon equipped on them.
Is this stuff actually common knowledge and I'm just an idiot? This could be significant for people struggling with escaping slaves, since you can get even the weakest NPC to much higher guard power values.