A Beginner's Guide to WH40K: Rogue Trader - Overview On Profit Factor & Reputation System Mechanics

show me your Arenal yeah this is the tutorial part so this is a great time to talk about this because someone was asking me yesterday during the stream um about the loot because I seem to be looting so many things and my inventory was like they were like oh my God that Inventory management must be a nightmare and the discussion was actually everything I'm looting isn't just going into my inventory um a lot of it goes into your cargo space so there's two different inventories essentially there's your ship cargo and there's your personal inventory and as you loot weapons and things they go into your inventory and they'll stack so you can start looting the same type of Les gun or or pistol or sword or flak jacket and they just stack up and all this other stuff that you loot trophies and the like in these cases those are the cargo that go into your ship and you could you could also take those stacks of weapons the things in your inventory and move them into the cargo and they count as like Munitions or ranged weapons or armor you know all these different types of things in your cargo which we'll see here in a minute um and this is the tutorial on profit factor and trading so assistly um profit factor is your status it it say it represents the status wealth and power of the Rogue Trader determined by trade connections holding incomes treasuring loans and borrowings while you're are traveling your character will use profit factor for buying everything from grenades and weapons to planetary colonies you don't actually spend profit Factor on purchases and transactions uh but it level does determine the ability to make a trade transaction or to pass certain checks so that's a number that just goes up as you grow in levels and your reputation grows and everything else um so when you start off it's going to be smaller and as you become more important and gets bigger but it's just a ranking it's like a faction rating sort of it's not quite the same thing but it is a rating that affects you know um your ability to make those transactions right so it's a it's a little bit of a complex system because then there's reputation there's actual reputation that factors in next so equipment weapon and other items can be found at vendors of various factions throughout the Corona's expanse to trade with them you need profit f Factor but you also need reputation um these are not spent on purchases but they're level one or both at the same time this is the complexity can impact the range of goods available to you and whether or not you can purchase them reputation is a measure of the Rogue Trader's relationship with the factions of the coronis expanse whereas the profit factor is sort of like your overall reputation the higher the reputation with the faction um The Wider the range of goods available from the representative of that faction and then if you want to increase reputation with the particular faction you get to transfer valuable cargo to the representatives or complete its orders so there's multiple ways but when you're going into the trade window which we're going to do right now um this is where we actually get to see all of this in action this is a cool time to I'm glad this popped up this morning because I was wanting to do a video on this and it naturally happened upon us so um right away you're going to notice this window pops up and there's a trade window and a reputation window so let's talk about the trade window first so we have RP which is reputation and then we have PF which is profit your profit Factor so if we understand what was just said a minute ago um each item has a profit Factor minimum that you have to hit and a reputation minimum that you have to hit so this one requires six PF profit factor and zero rep so I can buy these items right now because I've met the uh there's zero rep requirements so we don't have any rep requirements for those and I've met the uh profit Factor right which it looks like I have at least 10 now you'll notice that this one's grayed out this modified Las gun and that's cuz I don't have enough profit Factor yet um I I haven't earned enough of a reputation worldwide you know I'm not famous enough yet um so I can't access those but what I can access are these ones like I could buy some more medkits which I'm definitely going to do because those are highly important and hard to find um I'm not going to buy the armor um grenades I might grab the grenades too those are also hard to come by well if I can get this box to come over there we go all right but what if I want rank two stuff it says I need 1,500 RP I need 1500 faction we go over here to the reputation Tab and this is the cargo that I was talking about earlier this is all in your ship's cargo hold and what you can do is you can go through here and click on some of these you know if they have an X you know ignore it but look for the ones that um are empty and that you can click and get a check mark you notice they have percentages 102% 119% 112% that's just how much is in my cargo hold so let's just go through and click five of these and let's watch the faction level up top when I click complete nothing there we go had to click twice that gave me 12 1250 faction so let's do another couple let's do two more not not quite enough let's try three more there we go that got me to 2050 um so I'm I'm over that Mark and I'm on my way to 3,000 if I go back to the trade window I now have access to the rank two items however I don't have enough profit factor to purchase any of these items but there's a bolt pistol some stabilizing bracers a helmet I like the helmet and the bracers and some fire grenades um I am going to purchase the fire grenades because always purchase grenades and I'll have to wait until my profit Factor higher to do any of the other things um so that's a basic explanation of how that works and if you scroll down at least at the beta we can see there's three tiers of items that I can purchase but I noticed that when I was leveling up the other day I just was throwing everything I had at a merchant just to test the system um and there's actually more than um three tiers of relationships so I'm assuming that when you get into the live game we're going to see four five six seven ranks who knows maybe more ranks of items that the merchants can have potentially so it's way more than just three um but it only shows three ranks worth of items in the beta oh I guess there's even numbers here which I didn't even notice until I was just sitting right now so it does go to seven ha we're learning something new this morning everybody Welcome to the twitch stream necro don't forget we are multi streaming on YouTube and I just caught your chat too I wasn't even paying attention sorry about that uh necro says um first time I caught you live your videos have been great thank you for that appreciate it yeah most of the days most days I'm Live 5 5:30 in the morning for about an hour and a half as I wake up with everybody and then 8:00 p.m. central when we're wide awake and playing at the end of the day so we do two streams a day sometimes I'll do an afternoon stream but it depends on how much video production I have to get done because uh YouTube is my main gig and streaming is like a side thing the rest but most of the time I'm just doing content creation but I have started streaming with regular intent since we started multi streaming on Twitch like I guess a month ago because for the first couple of years I mostly was just doing content creation and uh occasional streaming on YouTube but now I'm actually doing streaming regularly anyway folks um that is an overview of the profit factor and reputation system uh for dealing with Merchants that you come across in the world um as a Rog Trader it's a very interesting system and it seems more complex than it is because because of the fact that it has like two different things being applied to it you've got two different reputation systems inly Fame I guess would be one way to look at it um and then your actual reputation per vendor um and then I was just talking about earlier you can look at your cargo oops wrong button you can see your Cargo in your ship like this when you're out and then if you have stacks of items like this we could take this Flack chest plate and drop it over here and it's going to is it going to be armor kit that goes up no I don't know which one just went up um let's look at um melee weapons I've got three more oh I guess they're just going up now okay but anyway you could stash all your items here if you don't need items if you're not going to use them hold on to the gloves H I've got a better sniper rifle I'm not using bolt weapons or sub carbines or shotguns or swords I do want to give those gloves to somebody and I need to check the uh armor anyway the stream continues onwards but if you're watching this episodic format on the YouTube channel like subscribe hit the Bell icon so you never miss an update see you in the next one necro says I'm finding the urge to get the beta I mean yeah if you're just playing the game as the average lay person just wait till it launches you've only got another week the only reason I started the beta was uh because from a Content Creator's perspective I could start doing R&D learn the game learn the system put out videos do some let's play sessions start getting the algorithm familiar with my face on YouTube and then get people used to the fact that I'm going to be streaming this game at live and then uh roll right into that I don't I haven't done any um like I know like um Mor mortimus gaming I think is his Channel's name he's he's got his hands on a uh on an actual preview copy he's like he's got like 200,000 plus YouTube subscribers he's a big content creator in the crpg space and he was able to get his hands on a on a pre-launch copy from um from alcat and he's been putting out guides that cover like the live game um and that's the perk of you know having been doing this for many many years as he has um whereas I'm coming into things I'm only I'm only two years into full-time content creation I only have like 20 a little over 20,000 followers on my YouTube channel so I'm still a small fish even though I do this fall fulltime I am a small fish in that scope so the beta has a lot of great information but I would also say check out slander gaming and mortismal gaming because they're both doing really good uh Rogue Trader guys as well and they're going to be they're going to be um playing this at launch as well um they're the only two that I know of that are going to be playing this at launch but they're also doing very good guides so I would say get your fix right now necro from checking out myself and those two guys and uh just wait a week it'll be out on the 7th it's so close it's so close welcome to the channel zacher welcome to Twitch don't forget we're multi streaming on YouTube and twitch daily at 5:30 a.m. every evening at 8m PM pick your poison there's also a Discord down below everybody and we do have a World of Warcraft Guild if you want to play with our community follow the links you'll find out the information out um anyway um the beta has some quirks not everything's finalized you know so but you can see some contrast between all the various you know videos that are being created between content creators um yeah the beta I would I would say is it's mostly just a a research tool some people play it like it's a live game but I just I try to yeah I view it as a let's play different classes let's get an overview of the mechanics let's learn all of the systems um I knew nothing about Warhammer lore starting this game so I've had to learn a lot of Warhammer stuff and they've got a great um the the Codex in this game is is

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Length: 13min 58sec (838 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 29 2023