The funny symbol that goes red, green, yellow

[grävling]

It looks like a flattened Yen symbol, and is beside the Yen total and your XP total.

What is it for? What do the colours mean? What is its relationship with heat? I used to think that it had something to do about the time remaining for your courrier missions, but now I think that this is wrong. So is it something to do with how much attention you are getting from the Security system? In which case, can I hack the system to make it not notice me, or notice me less, or confuse me with somebody else? (If these options already exist, I haven't found them and they need to be documented -- unless, of course, they are part of the in-game story).

Grävling

[taatuu25]

I personally dont know about it going red because it never gets red with me,but i think that yellow means that you are "followed by enemies" and you can fix it by going into a hotel,then to another zone and there hotel,and repeat until they lose your trace,or then just wait until they attack you and kill them.

And if i have to guess, i think that red means your followed by enemies AND low on ammo.

[Slide87]

Yes exactly taatuu ^^ however,if u tap it,near date time it appears the explanation ^^

[grävling]

Aha! I never noticed the corner where the date usually is changing when I tapped the funny Yen symbol. So it is measuring 'heat' and 'ZRep'? I wonder what ZRep is, and whether the colour changes only indicate that the score is getting larger, or whether there is something correlated that this indicates.

Thank you.

[Slide87]

No it changes only if u are followed(only YELLOW),or if u are low on ammo(RED,also red if u are followed AND low on ammo)it indicates only this,what's Zrep??but do u intend the faction rep?

[grävling]

When I tapped on the flattened Y symbol, the first time, where it now says things like
'Enemies are closing in' it said

Heat 15
ZRep 0

I haven't managed to make this happen again, but it did once. So I wondered what 'ZRep' is.

[Slide87]

So Probably the Zone Reputation,that is one of coloured indicators on the left,under the HEAT bar...^^i never seen that message,sorry,i didn't understand 'cause of this ^^ maybe it's a glitch,or a strange variables collimation xD or more simply one of hundreds NBZ misteries of XXIII century....=)

[grävling]

Yes, 'Zone Rep' sounds most plausible, especially since it was under a text of 'heat'.

[grävling]

Aha -- I found out what happened -- if you tap on the reputation or heat bars (by mistake when you were aiming for the flattened Yen symbol, for instance) down where I am now getting
'you are low on ammo and your enemies are closing' messages you will have those
replaced by:

Heat X
Zrep Y

So its not the funny flattened symbol at all, just my fat fingers.

[fallen]

Glad you all figured it out! Complicated, eh?

CK-154, CK-155, and CK156 are targeting to move those statuses into the HUD in individual graphical ways (Exhausted, Followed, Low on Ammo) so that they are ever-present and clearer.

[grävling]

CK-154, CK-155, and CK156 sound wonderful. Do you have these all listed someplace where mere mortals can read them?

[fallen]

Nope =)

But, if you do get a number, its in our project tracking system and targeted to a future milestone for the game. Its your guarantee that we have listened, care, and are going to do something about it.

That's the best we can offer.

[grävling]

Ok, Thank you very much.

[Cory Trese]

Right now the yen symbol can be green, yellow, orange or red.

Shows the combination of followed and ammo. Click the symbol for a full explanation.

Z Rep is the slang for Zone Rep that we will be using.