# Combat Ratings

Your combat rating is based on the number of kills you have made. In Escape Velocity and EV Override, this is simply the sum of the crew complements of all the ships you have destroyed; in EV Nova is the sum of the strengths of all the ships you have destroyed, times some internal multiplier for adjustment. The combat rating names can be changed by editing STR# resource ID 138, but the default values are given below. The scale is as follows:

Kills | Rating in Escape Velocity and EV Override | Rating in EV Nova
--- | --- | ---
0 | Harmless | No Ability
1 | Mostly Harmless | Little Ability
100 | Fair | Fair Ability
200 | Average | Average Ability
400 | Above Average | Good Ability
800 | Competent | Competent
1,600 | Noteworthy | Very Competent
3,200 | Excellent | Worthy of Note
6,400 | Dangerous | Dangerous
12,800 | Deadly | Deadly
25,600 | Ultimate | Frightening

# Legal Status

Your legal status in a system is based on the crime tolerance of that system's government. (if the system is independent, it is based on the crime tolerance of first government, ID 128) The legal status names can be changed by editing STR# resource ID 134, but the default values are given below. On this scale, enough 'good' or 'evil' points to equal the government's crime tolerance is given a value of 1:

Good Scale: | Legal Status in Escape Velocity and EV Override | Legal Status in EV Nova:
--- | --- | ---
0 | Clean | Clean
4 | Decent Individual | Citizen
16 | Good Egg | Good Citizen
64 | Upstanding Citizen | Upstanding Citizen
256 | Role Model | Leading Citizen
1024 | Pillar of Society | Model Citizen
4096 | Honored Leader | Virtuous Citizen
Evil Scale: | Legal Status in Escape Velocity and EV Override | Legal Status in EV Nova:
0 | Clean | No record
-1 | Offender | Minor Offender
-4 | Criminal | Offender
-16 | Felon | Criminal
-64 | Fugitive | Wanted Criminal
-256 | Public Enemy | Fugitive
-1024 | Prime Evil | Hunted Fugitive
-4096 | Galactic Scourge | Public Enemy

Based upon the EV Nova Resource Bible and earlier works by Matt Burch, ©1995-2006 by Ambrosia Software, Inc.