Reputation

[nekonatulo]

What exactly does it do? I've been trying to play this for about a week now and I've yet to figure out the point to it. It doesn't seem to affect pay for jobs. It doesn't seem to affect the frequency of random hit teams*. I think one or twice it's gotten me V Chips for people, but that's about it. Is there something I'm just not seeing?

*So far the longest a character has survived was a week, because I specifically built a GunSlinger for combat and nothing else. I only play on Normal. Every character I've made so far (maybe in the 30-ish range by now) has died either to a hit by one of my allies or being randomly murdered for walking through BraveStar land with neutral to slightly positive rep and little to no heat. To be fair, though, I do generally get to play a character until the insane mass civil war that breaks out around hitting 30 XP.

[abysmal]

Reputation, for Ladder Connectors, increase the type of paying jobs you get. Bosses, except for Corporate Bosses, will also give some perks like a bizarre weapon, or a special service like a High Heat taxi... High repuation will, in gangland, allow you easier access to corporate ladders. The biggest thing is access to backrooms. Good Reputation also lowers the possibility of being hassled by a friendly gang. However, you will still have those gangers/corp leaders that want to make a name for themselves. Whether it's 10 or 10000, you have a chance to still be ambushed; at 10000, they second guess themselves a whole lot more.

Negative reputation not only is Negative, but it can affect a few things, though honestly the most I have ever seen it affect are the random encounters (more hit squads) or it has a "stacking" effect when calculating heat. Suffice to say, if everyone knows that you butchered three of their friends, it won't take long to find you again, especially if you have a known history of murder.

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[khearn]

There are also things like drone patrols that you don't want to submit to if you have a negative rep in the zone, but you are fairly safe submitting to them if you have a positive rep.

[fallen]

Reputation has the biggest effect on the Encounters over the NBZ.

The latest release (2.0.9) allows it to increase job prices slightly.

[Officer Genious]

May 28, 2014 17:40:49 GMT -5 khearn said:

There are also things like drone patrols that you don't want to submit to if you have a negative rep in the zone, but you are fairly safe submitting to them if you have a positive rep.

On Hard, I generally avoid drones whenever possible. Perception be fanned, if my Electronics skill isn't high I get into fights thanks to drone check points even as faction friends on a consistent basis. People check points are different though, they rarely give me too much trouble with good rep.

[anonymity]

How do I improve my Reputation? I read somewhere else on these boards that selling paydata was the fastest way to increase reputation, but so far hacking for paydata only causes my reputation to collapse (like -25 or worse) with the company I take the data from, and I'm seeing a pittance of money (like <100 yen per sale) and little to no Reputation boost from the paydata I sell.

Taking jobs is such a slow grind, especially when you can't actually get to a Ladder connector. I accidentally blew up my rep with BraveStar on one run, and they were the only ones I had a positive enough rep with to actually hope to find a connector (and taking one piece of paydata changed that from 22 to -3, so, great).

[grävling]

Build up your rep with Streets first. That way, when you are running across gangland, you won't be in red territory. To gain rep you want to
a) have a computer that takes more than 1 job. That way you can take 2 or more jobs to the same area. The whole idea is to do a lot of jobs -- and message delivery is great for this -- for one faction, before you sleep in a hotel, then wake up and do that again. You want your jobs to be close together -- ideally in the same neighbourhood, if not that then in adjacent ones.
b) sleep in the very most expensive hotels you can. So the Escort Agency in Boston Harbor is great. It has a phone. Your rep only goes down when you sleep, fail at jobs, and kill people whose faction you are trying to gain rep with. So the longer you can stay up without sleeping, the better, and how long you can last before becoming exhausted is a function of how expensive the hotel was to rent. Stay at top priced hotels.
c) Stay out of taxis. (Thopters and Boats are fine). Taxis eat a whole lot of time every time you use them, so you want to take jobs you can walk to. When you are exhausted, taking a taxi to where you are going to sleep is fine. Waking up at your pricey hotel and then taking a taxi to the part of town where the work is is fine. Taxing between jobs is a losing proposition.
d) Get non-lethal weapons. That way when you end up in fights with the faction you are trying to impress, it won't cost you as much in rep.

[fallingleaf]

I have 125 rep with Fennian. Why is Cava Saint still offering be Y89 delivery jobs? It seemed like he was giving me better jobs for a while.

[grävling]

He's funny like that. I generally get my Fennian rep boosts by working for somebody else than Cava, and just calling him periodically. If I happen to be in the Fenns on business from Faith and Fury, I check to see if he wants any packages hauled back before I return to FF&R, but that is pretty much it. Cava doesn't care if you do _his_ jobs, as long as your Fennian rep keeps increasing he will keep on forking over the rewards.

[Officer Genious]

Its just odd that I can get 400+ credit contracts from anyone else doing a few kill missions or maybe 180+ taking messages to gangland, but Cava only gives 80 for the same kind of work (no effects by wars or rumors).

Its a let down, really. I remember loving his stuff.

On the other hand, I could say the same for Smuggler connectors in back rooms...

[fallen]

Officer Genious - yes, the Phone Connectors are still V1, while others have upgraded to V2.