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Within the universe, you’re bound to communicate with those around you to get what you want and gain reputation through performing certain actions and quests. You may get access to people that you may contact that have a large amount of power and control, performing enough actions to gain favours of some kind.

Building Reputation

Building reputation is a relatively simple task, typically by assisting others, being kind and overall following the customs of a society will allow you to build reputation with that group. Building Reputation can give you benefits, and lead into favours being made. The table below shows an example of the various tasks you can perform and the amount of reputation points it would give you for performing those tasks

You can build reputation with many groups, anything that the GM and the Player agrees as a group qualifies as a group that you can build reputation with. Some groups may have reputation stacking between them.

To calculate the amount required to increase your reputation, you must successfully assist a willing person of that group in a task. the amount of reputation points required to increase your rank with a group is your current rank x 10 + 10.

Favours

Favours are highly important for gaining reputation and are your main points for using your benefits for reputation. You may have a maximum of favours equal to the rank that you currently are, every +15% in Social increases the amount of points you can have at one time.

When using a Favour, you can choose between the options:

  • Automatically succeed any Social Action against a character of the group that you have favour with.
  • Immediately reduce the cost of an item or service by C$5, if less then this price, it is considered free.
  • Request aid from the group, an amount of allies (if available) equal to your rank will attempt to assist you in any instance that you require as long as it would not result directly in their death.

You may also use favours for things outside of this, however, this is up to GM’s discretion.

When using a favour, the group gains 1 point of Favour against you. The GM can choose to use the favour on multiple things, such as requesting an item, a mission, or anything from that group to assist them. These qualify for x4 of the amount of reputation that you would typically gain by doing these normally. Accepting a Favour grants 1 reputation point, while declining a Favour removes 1 reputation point.

Reputation Ranks

Rank 1 – Acquainted

Reduced Prices – All prices are reduced by 5%

Rank 2 – Niche

Reduced Prices – All prices are reduced by 10%

Rank 3 – Well-Known

Reduced Prices – All prices are reduced by 15%
Friendly – You are considered friendly towards the group. All interactions with the group will be treated as such.

Rank 4 – Proven

Reduced Prices – All prices are reduced by 20%
Friendly – You are considered friendly towards the group. All interactions with the group will be treated as such.

Rank 5 – Well-Liked

Reduced Prices – All prices are reduced by 25%
Friendly – You are considered friendly towards the group. All interactions with the group will be treated as such.

Rank 6 – Reliable

Reduced Prices – All prices are reduced by 30%
Friendly – You are considered friendly towards the group. All interactions with the group will be treated as such.
Dependable – Your favour automatically regenerates by 1 point per week.

Rank 7 – Overachieving

Reduced Prices – All prices are reduced by 35%
Allied – You are considered Allied towards the group. All interactions with the group will be treated as such.
Dependable – Your favour automatically regenerates by 1 point per week.

Rank 8 – Idolised

Reduced Prices – All prices are reduced by 40%
Allied – You are considered Allied towards the group. All interactions with the group will be treated as such.
Dependable – Your favour automatically regenerates by 1 point per week.

Rank 9 – Adored

Reduced Prices – All prices are reduced by 45%
Allied – You are considered Allied towards the group. All interactions with the group will be treated as such.
Dependable – Your favour automatically regenerates by 1 point per week.
High-Priority – When using a favour to request aid, the allies that are summoned are willing to perform tasks to die for you, if you do willingly allow them to, this will reduce your reputation points by 1.

Rank 10 – Loved

Reduced Prices – All prices are reduced by 50%
Allied – You are considered Allied towards the group. All interactions with the group will be treated as such.
Dependable – Your favour automatically regenerates by 2 points per week.
High-Priority – When using a favour to request aid, the allies that are summoned are willing to perform tasks to die for you, if you do willingly allow them to, this will reduce your reputation points by 1.

Losing Reputation

Losing reputation is about as easy if not easier then gaining reputation. Losing reputation is done by treating a group mean, actively hurting, or killing a member of the group. Losing reputation for one group will not gain you any reputation for their enemy groups unless people from those groups are actively seeing you do it. The table below shows an example of what actions cause you to lose your reputation and how much reputation you lose.

To calculate the amount required for negative ranks, You must successfully perform negative actions such as killing, maiming, robbing or other nefarious acts to a certain group. The amount required to gain decrease your rank with a group is your current rank x 10 + 10.

Negative Reputation Ranks

Rank -1 – Isolated

Increased Prices – All prices are increased by +5%

Rank -2 – Outcast

Increased Prices – All prices are increased by +10%

Rank -3 – Annoyance

Increased Prices – All prices are increased by +15%
Unfriendly – The group is now unfriendly towards you. You are considered unfriendly with the group.

Rank -4 – Disliked

Increased Prices – All prices are increased by +20%
Unfriendly – The group is now unfriendly towards you. You are considered unfriendly with the group.

Rank -5 – Loathed

Increased Prices – All prices are increased by +25%
Unfriendly – The group is now unfriendly towards you. You are considered unfriendly with the group.

Rank -6 – Shunned

Increased Prices – All prices are increased by +30%
Unfriendly – The group is now unfriendly towards you. You are considered unfriendly with the group.
Discriminated – Members of this group will actively try to ruin things for you and be a hindrance, they are 50% more likely to refuse any services to you.

Rank -7 – Hated

Increased Prices – All prices are increased by +35%
Hostile – The group is now considered hostile towards you. You are considered hostile with the group.
Discriminated – Members of this group will actively try to ruin things for you and be a hindrance, they are 50% more likely to refuse any services to you.

Rank -8 – Spited

Increased Prices – All prices are increased by +40%
Hostile – The group is now considered hostile towards you. You are considered hostile with the group.
Discriminated – Members of this group will actively try to ruin things for you and be a hindrance, they are 50% more likely to refuse any services to you.

Rank -9 – Abhorred

Increased Prices – All prices are increased by +45%
Hostile – The group is now considered hostile towards you. You are considered hostile with the group.
Discriminated – Members of this group will actively try to ruin things for you and be a hindrance, they are 50% more likely to refuse any services to you.
Public Enemy – Members of the group actively will attack you on sight until you fall unconscious or surrender. They will stop attacking you until the next day.

Rank -10 – Despised

Increased Prices – All prices are increased by +50%
Hostile – The group is now considered hostile towards you. You are considered hostile with the group.
Discriminated – Members of this group will actively try to ruin things for you and be a hindrance, they always refuse any service to you.
Public Enemy – Members of the group actively will attack you on sight to kill you.

Contacts

Contacts are not necessarily members of any specific group, or they can be very specific members of groups with their own reputation ranks and levels. Treat contacts the same as you would treat it for other reputations for groups. Contacts can be very helpful and having multiple contacts will be able to get you things such as information and access to more contacts, being able to pull the strings behind various locations.

Contacts are typically leaders or independent people from groups, but their mechanics are treated similarly as if you were gaining reputation for a whole group.