ada's affinity

[Zes]

Just checked, Ada has 526 affinity but never saw her liked or disliked anything, She is like Dogmeat but Dogmeat has 0 affinity. What's the purpose her affinity, for any future thing? And how did I get those 526? Just by hanging around with her?

[steventirey]

Every 10 minutes, assuming you have earned at least 1 XP during that time, your active companion will gain affinity.

That being said, Ada shouldn't be able to earn affinity at all. It has absolutely no use for her, as she has no companion perk nor is she able to be romanced. And I don't think there is anything you can do to turn her against you (negative affinity).

[Zes]

Originally posted by steventirey:

Every 10 minutes, assuming you have earned at least 1 XP during that time, your active companion will gain affinity.

That being said, Ada shouldn't be able to earn affinity at all. It has absolutely no use for her, as she has no companion perk nor is she able to be romanced. And I don't think there is anything you can do to turn her against you (negative affinity).

I'm maximizing every companion's affinity to 1100. Noticed she had some, maybe she was planned to use it on some quests, either way I'll max her affinity too.

Thanks for the clarifications, I was checking my watch and trying to figure out how many minutes were passing before an affinity gain. but didn't realize that i needed to gain at least 1xp.

[DouglasGrave]

They might have originally planned to have some affinity effects for Ada, or perhaps they initially copied data from another companion entry to make her. But I would guess that either way they just didn't bother to remove affinity from her as a companion, since you can't see the value during normal gameplay anyway.