Talking

Talking, called Communication on mechanoids, is a pawn capacity: A character's capacity of speech. Directly affected by consciousness. Talking is a factor of all social stats. Talking capacity is reduced by a damaged or missing jaw. Dementia also impairs talking.

At the time of writing, the maximum possible talking capacity is 220% for a pawn with sensory mechanites and the maximum possible consciousness of 170%. There is however no advantage of a talking capacity above 100%.

Affected stats

Name	Type	Weight	Max	Description
Trade Price Improvement	Stat	0.9	1	When this person acts as a trade negotiator, buy and sell prices are improved by this percentage.
Social Impact	Stat	0.9	1	A multiplier on how much other people are affected by this person's social interactions.
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.
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.
Train Animal Chance	Stat	0.7	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.
Tame Animal Chance	Stat	0.9	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.

Factors

The following factors affect Talking:

• Consciousness: 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max
• Jaw part efficiency. 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max
  • Denture: Part efficiency offset −20%
• Tongue part efficiency. 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max
  • Bionic tongue: Part efficiency offset 0%
• Ghoul: Being a ghoul multiplies a pawn's Talking by ×0%

Offsets

The following offsets affect Talking:

• Dementia: −25%
  • Note, that as dementia also inflicts a -15% Consciousness penalty, this is effectively a −40% to Talking.
• Sensory mechanites: +50%

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Stats

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

- Misc

Biosculpter Occupant Speed • Growth Vat Occupant Speed

- 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