Research:Disposition and Persuasion

Note
Successfully performing a Bribe, Admire, Taunt or Intimidate will raise your Speechcraft skill.

Shared terms
Using player stats: Using NPC stats (note differences): Summary:

Disposition Change
For all persuasion actions there is a temporary and a permanent disposition change. The temporary one applies to the disposition meter you see in the dialogue window. The permanent one is applied when you say goodbye to the NPC; the NPC's disposition is reset to the disposition they had when you initiated the conversation, then the permanent disposition change is applied. You can see these values in the console by using ToggleDialogStats before persuading.

For all methods:

except for Intimidate:

This may attempt to change actual disposition below/above 0/100. Disposition changes are clamped so as not to go past the caps, and the actual amount the disposition moved is used in the next function.

except for Intimidate

There may also be modifications to the NPC's flee and fight ratings. The flee and fight variables hold the amount those ratings are changed. They are also capped at 0 and 100.

Comments
The function is long and highly redundant, much of the same formulas are repeatedly calculated many times for no reason. It's just another poorly coded part of Morrowind. There is at least one bug with Intimidate where you can see if the calculated change is under iPerMinChange, it fails to set x correctly (it should have the value y does). This is responsible for the disposition meter not moving on some Intimidate Success results.