Affection

Affection is a numerical value that represents how much a companion likes you. Increasing your companion's affection of you will improve the speed at which they perform Crew Skill missions, open up new conversations with that companion or even unlock companion-specific missions. Increasing affection Affection is primarily increased by giving gifts to your companion. Each companion has different likes and dislikes, although giving a companion a gift that they do not like does not result in negative affection, but awards no affection. Affection can also be influenced by your choices during conversation. A companion does not need to be actively summoned in order to have their affection changed by your decision. Unlike gifts, your actions can result in negative affection, albeit in very small amounts. Affection level and gift ranks As you give your companion gifts, their affection level will increase. Companion gifts of a given level are only effective in certain affection ranges. Gifts will produce the maximum affection gain when that companion's affection is in the following range: Rank 1: 0-2000 Rank 2: 2000-4000 Rank 3: 4000-6000 Rank 4: 6000-8000 Rank 5: 8000-10000 Affection gained from gifts The amount of affection a gift of equal rank to your companion's affection rank will increase by: Favorite gifts will produce an affection gain of +96. Love gifts will produce an affection gain of +54. Like gifts will produce an affection gain of +24. Other factors There are other factors which can change the amount of affection your companion can gain from a gift by the following: Blue Gifts will produce an extra 166.66% bonus affection over a green gift. Purple Gifts will produce an extra 400% bonus affection over a green gift. Gifts two ranks higher than your companion rank produce an extra 130% bonus affection. Gifts one rank higher than your companion rank produce an extra 110% bonus affection. Gifts one rank lower than your companion rank produce 50% less affection. Gifts two ranks lower than your companion rank produce 80% less affection. Gifts three ranks lower than your companion rank produce no affection. Affection Gift Rank +2 higher Gift Rank +1 higher Gift Rank = Companion Rank Gift Rank -1 lower Gift Rank -2 lower Gift Rank -3 lower Favorite 125 106 96 48 19 0 Love 70 59 54 27 12 0 Like 31 26 24 12 5 0