Bath House

Bribes

Every town with a bathhouse has 4 councillors which can be bribed.

Attendance

Between 0 and 4 bribable councillors attend the bath house. The bath house panel has an array of attendance selection timestamps at offset 0xd4, whose entries denote when the attendance in a given town will be updated. These timestamps are updated to now + 0x100 when

• the bath house window is closed.
• fast forward is activated.
• the options screen is opened.
• any window is opened after the bath house window has just been closed.

The pool of attending councillors is updated when the bath house window is opened and the selection timestamp is smaller than now. Therefore, continuously opening an individual bath house locks the current attendance.

Attendance is decided as follows:

def will_attend(rand: int):
    return rand % 100 < 7

so each councillor has a 7% chance to attend.

Price Formula

The town_calculate_expected_bribe function at 0x00529E20 determines the amount of money the merchant needs to offer for the bribe to be successful.

It defines the following bribe base factors for each rank:

The bribe result is calculated as follows:

BRIBE_BASE_FACTORS = [0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 15]

def calculate_expected_bribe(rank: int, rand: int, already_bribed: bool):
    price = 500 * (rand % 11 + 4 * BRIBE_BASE_FACTORS[rank] + 16)
    if already_bribed:
        price *= 2
    return price

def calculate_bribe_result(amount: int, rank: int, rand: int, already_bribed: bool):
    price = calculcate_expected_bribe(rank, rand, already_bribed)
    if amount < price:
        return BribeResult.OK
    elif amount >= price * 1.5:
        return BribeResult.GOOD
    else:
        return BribeResult.FAILED

For unbribed councillors, this produces the following minimum and maximum bribes:

Result

The result can be identified by the councillor's response:

Both Ok and Good enqueue a Bath House Bribe Success operation, while Failed enqueues a Bath House Bribe Failure operation. The failure operation is bugged, as discussed in the Known Bugs chapter.

Status

The current status of a councillor can be inferred by his lines:

The annoyance of a councillor with a given index is bugged and saved globally, as discussed in the Known Bugs chapter.

Limits

The success operation has a check which probably should prevent a merchant from bribing more than 2 councillors in one town. However, this check is bugged, as discussed in the Known Bugs chapter.