Gifts and Relationships

[Patriot]

I'm not far into the game yet, just finished the first exam, but I'm wondering where I might find gifts and what are they? I noticed I can gift my lockpicking guide, but I tend to use that every night.

On another note i'm hated by Terk and disliked by Caesari and would like to have a better relationship with them, but I'm finding no opprotunities to improve it. Can anyone advise? Thank you.

[jedvorak]

I'm not at all sure you can get Terk to like you. As for Sosi? Don't know if it's worth it, but in my most recent game I chose to be polite to him. He's still pretty nasty to me. All the gifts you can give are in your inventory but do not show up as gifts until you decide you want to give someone something. Then, a dialogue box will show up with a list of items you can give that particular person.

[Patriot]

Do people have any particular likes or dislikes? I'm gonna guess the librarian would like my book as he seems very fond of them.

[vtots]

Generic gifts like apples and roses can be given to most people and you can freely get an infinite supply of them. You can find a few bottles of wine that most people will also accept, though there is a limited supply.

There are a few unique items which can be gifted to people. I generally try to rely on conversations and quests to increase approval and give gifts to people who are more difficult to become friends. E.g. Ifetayah approves whenever we wash dishes, so we can quickly and easily become BFF with her. Moira always increases approval when we speak with her and are polite. Urwald can easily raise approval through the correct responses in class or when speaking in his office. Most of the classmates increase approval a lot after helping them in their quests.

[For_Science!]

The best way to befriend Caesari is to suck up to him and mock everyone else, which is probably not worth it on a first playthrough. The guy really is a jerk.

[transolar]

Originally posted by Wayne:

Do people have any particular likes or dislikes? I'm gonna guess the librarian would like my book as he seems very fond of them.

Each character has at least one special gift that will give Shawn a lot of reputation with them, and several lesser gifts that give minor reputation. You can usually work out which gifts are special from conversation.

[Mysti_Fogg]

If you want to raise Sosi's opinion of you, he likes it when you're polite to him and give snarky answers in class.