Talk:Betiah/@comment-74.46.255.243-20120903090204/@comment-174544-20120914032447

I've noticed that too, although in a different way. In my second play through, I suddenly got a huge amount of escort quests (which are affinity based) for random knights that worked under Ser Maximilian.

I have 2 theories.

1. The game distributes small amounts of affinity to every NPC for each play through (or every time they see you and you don't upset them).

or

2. (and this one is more likely) The game treats certain NPC's as belonging to groups or families, distributing affinity among each member whenever one of the would gain or lose affinity. Most likely this would just be whenever one or a few specific members loses or gains affinity, and probably not to the same amount (or romancing Ophis would cause her entire bandit troupe to fall in love with you).

And so doing quests for Ophis (or Maximilian in my case) inadvertently increased the affinity of everyone in that group.

I say this is more likely as the game would already need some sort of group system to determine which NPC's are hostile or friendly to you or other groups. Slapping joint affinity on should be a piece of cake.

Huh... That reply turned out to be much longer than I intended... ^_^;