Hearing
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Hearing is a pawn capacity: How well a creature can detect sound waves. It improves social and trade prices.
Effects
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Hearing has a number of unique interactions with other mechanics, beyond the traditional effects on stats.
Pawns with 0% Hearing do not get the mood bonus from musical instruments
, or the mood penalties from disturbed sleep or crying babies
.
Animals also have a Hearing capacity, but it's not clear if it affects any of their stats.
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. |
| Trade Price Improvement | Stat | 0.9 | 1 | When this person acts as a trade negotiator, buy and sell prices are improved by this percentage. |
| 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. |
| Tame Animal Chance | Stat | 0.3 | 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. |
| Social Impact | Stat | 0.3 | 1 | A multiplier on how much other people are affected by this person's social interactions. |
| Train Animal Chance | Stat | 0.3 | 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. |
Factors
The following factors affect Hearing:
Base factors
- Ear efficiency. 100% importance, no allowed defect, no max.
- The game assigns 75% weight to the stronger ear and 25% weight to the weaker, so entirely losing a single ear reduces hearing by 25% rather than 50%. As such the effects on Hearing of each change to Ear efficiency are displayed in the table below rather than listed with each entry.
- Hearing loss: Part efficiency offset −20%.
- Cochlear implant: 65% part efficiency.
- Bionic ear: 125% part efficiency.
| Hearing | Right ear | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaf | Hearing loss | Cochlear implant | Organic ear | Bionic ear | ||
| Left ear | Deaf | 0% | 37.5% | 49% | 75% | 94% |
| Hearing loss | 37.5% | 50% | 61.25% | 87.5% | 106.25% | |
| Cochlear implant | 49% | 61.25% | 65% | 91% | 110% | |
| Organic ear | 75% | 87.5% | 91% | 100% | 119% | |
| Bionic ear | 94% | 106.25% | 110% | 119% | 125% |
Offsets
The following offsets affect Hearing:
- Dementia: −25%
- Note, that as dementia also inflicts a -15% Consciousness penalty, this is effectively a −40% to Hearing.
- Sensory mechanites: +50%
Version history
- 1.2.2719 - Humans with 0% hearing no longer get thoughts from listening to instruments.
- Capacities
- Blood Filtration • Blood Pumping • Breathing • Consciousness • Eating • Hearing • Manipulation • Metabolism • Moving • Pain • Sight • Talking
- Pawn Stats - General
- Carrying Capacity • Eating Speed • Filth Rate • Foraged Food Amount • Global Learning Factor • Hunger Rate Factor • Immunity Gain Speed • Leather Amount • Lifespan Factor • Max Nutrition • Maximum Comfortable Temperature • Meat Amount • Mental Break Threshold • Minimum Comfortable Temperature • Minimum Handling Skill • Move Speed • Pain Shock Threshold • Psychic Sensitivity • Rest Rate Multiplier • Sleep Fall Rate • Toxic Environment Resistance • Toxic Resistance • Meditation Focus Gain • Neural Heat Gain • Neural Heat Limit • Neural Heat Recovery Rate • Conversion Power
• Global Certainty Loss Factor • Ideoligion Spread Chance • Terror • Cancer Rate Factor • Fertility • Hemogen Gain Multiplier • Learning Rate Factor • Raw Nutrition Multiplier - - Mechanitor
- Mech Bandwidth • Mech Control Groups • Mech Remote Repair Distance • Mech Remote Shield Distance • Mech Remote Shield Energy • Mech Gestation Speed • Mech Repair Speed • Subcore Encoding Speed
- - Combat
- Aiming Time • Incoming Damage Multiplier • Melee Armor Penetration • Melee Dodge Chance • Melee DPS • Melee Hit Chance • Mortar Miss Radius Multiplier • Shooting Accuracy • Trap Spring Chance • Melee Damage Factor • Ranged Cooldown Multiplier • Stagger Time Multiplier
- - Social
- Arrest Success Chance • Beauty (Pawn) • Negotiation Ability • Social Impact • Tame Animal Chance • Trade Price Improvement • Train Animal Chance • Animal Products Price Improvement • Slave Suppression Fall Rate • Suppression Power
- - Work
- Animal Gather Speed • Animal Gather Yield • Butchery Efficiency • Butchery Speed • Construct Success Chance • Construction Speed • Cooking Speed • Deep Drilling Speed • Drug Cooking Speed • Drug Synthesis Speed • Food Poison Chance • General Labor Speed • Global Work Speed • Hunting Stealth • Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency • Mechanoid Shredding Speed • Medical Operation Speed • Medical Surgery Success Chance • Medical Tend Quality • Medical Tend Speed • Mining Speed • Mining Yield • Plant Harvest Yield • Plant Work Speed • Repair Success Chance • Research Speed • Smelting Speed • Smoothing Speed • Hacking Speed • Pruning Speed • Mech Work Speed Offset