Make asking an ally for help cost more each time you ask

If an ally helps whenever asked, the player calls in the cavalry every turn and the alliance means nothing. Here is a favour balance that pays for each request, makes quick repeat requests cost more, forgets old ones, and lets a refusal be a story beat that costs nothing.

Why this works

A favour that costs nothing is not a favour. Making each request dearer when it follows another quickly, and cheap again after quiet time, copies how real friendships work, so the player must weigh every ask instead of spamming it.

When not to use it

Skip it when help is meant to be a dependable part of the design, such as a tutorial companion or a story where the ally is always there. A rising price would punish the very thing you want players to use. Limit it by the story instead.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 3 common mistakes and the fix
• A diagram of every state
• 13 lines of example code with 4 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

Say this to your AI

Use the Spielerando entry "Make asking an ally for help cost more each time you ask" (read_entry ally-favor-cost-rises-with-each-request) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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