Why do different races start with different resolve thresholds?

[Himulaya]

I saw that lizards and harpies often start with 15 resolve required to gain the first reputation points, humans start with 30, and beavers sometimes 15 and sometimes 30. What does this depend on?

Same question regarding the base resolve value before modifiers.

[Mmm]

It is always the same - 15, 15, 30, 30.

May be you are confusing it with base resolve. Though beavers have 10.

[Himulaya]

Originally posted by Mmm:

It is always the same - 15, 15, 30, 30.

May be you are confusing it with base resolve. Though beavers have 10.

Maybe they changed it in one of the last updates? I clearly recall beavers having a lower resolve threshold at some time.

[Alexander]

Some caravans contain complex food by default. If you pick such caravan, species that prefer that type of food will get extra resolve until the food runs out.

[Himulaya]

Originally posted by Alexander:

Some caravans contain complex food by default. If you pick such caravan, species that prefer that type of food will get extra resolve until the food runs out.

Thanks, but this was not the case, I'm referring to the base value to which all the modifiers which you can see are then added to (including food, hostility level, etc). Even if there are no modifiers whatsoever, when the game just starts, different races have different resolve.

[Tam]

Originally posted by Himulaya:

Originally posted by Alexander:

Some caravans contain complex food by default. If you pick such caravan, species that prefer that type of food will get extra resolve until the food runs out.

Thanks, but this was not the case, I'm referring to the base value to which all the modifiers which you can see are then added to (including food, hostility level, etc). Even if there are no modifiers whatsoever, when the game just starts, different races have different resolve.

That is normal, different races have different base resolve, different thresholds for resolve, different threshold growth and different speed of which resolve falls.

*Edit: For your first question, these values do not change for different runs. Beavers always have the same base value they always have and so on.

[Narandia]

Originally posted by Tam:

That is normal, different races have different base resolve, different thresholds for resolve, different threshold growth and different speed of which resolve falls.

This. Its added variety with balancing factors. Humans and Beavers are easy to manage in the early game with their high starting base resolve but also expect the most to generate reputation (humans raise the threshold more, beavers have the highest starting threshold). Harpies on the other end are fragile but are also the easiest species to gain resolve from. Lizards also have a low base but their resolve changes the slowest, making it very easy to get through storm seasons without their resolve actually dropping to 0 despite trending towards it.