Editing Reputation

{{Quality|Exceptional|23:34, 5 December 2019 (UTC)}}

[[Reputation]], or '''fame''', is an invisible metric that tracks how well-known or fearsome your [[Adventure mode|adventurer]] is. Reputation directly impacts the quality and difficulty of [[quest]]s you will receive, the number of companions willing to join you, or whether [[bandit]]s will directly attempt to target you. Certain reputation also allows you to get tavern services for lower (or free) price and vice versa.

=== Quests ===

The most straightforward way is to perform [[quest]]s, and report back to whoever sent you off. These range from killing some mundane animal (like a [[dingo]]), to neutralizing a [[bandit]] camp or outing a [[vampire]] in hiding. As your reputation increases, you will be tasked to complete more serious quests, such as slaying a [[megabeast]] on the other side of the world. If you are a [[hearthperson]] or a subordinate to some kind of lord, you may repeatedly ask for quests to your superior and build up a reputation as a loyal soldier.

 

 

If you are not a subordinate to anybody and don't wish to be, you can simply use [[rumor]]s to brag about your feats. Simply slay some beast, bandit or [[night creature]] and bring up the incident in a conversation, and let the rumor system do the work. Alternatively, you may tell the story of your feats in a [[performance]], and spectators will spread the story for you.

There are currently 32 sorts of reputations, with corresponding titles, EG. "Preserver of Knowledge" for returning a book to a library, but they aren't equal or even necessarily numeric. It's all handled dynamically based on incident/rumor/entity-membership knowledge, so it can be slippery to pin things down, especially in the cases where somebody has died, since people can go a few levels deep to ascertain what they think about that (and still too often end up with nothing.)  Once events/etc. go stale, a simple numeric reputation is captured for those events, and that lives inside entities and historical figures that are thinking about a given person (some events are [[entity]] level, some [[historical figure]] level, some both.)  The utterances are shifted in ranges 1-24, 25-49, 50-74, 75-99, 100+, oftentimes, so many reputations have five verbal levels.  So for example, you get 25 hero points for reuniting two people if the thinker has a positive feeling about either of them, or a positive entity affiliation with either - you get 100 hero points from either of the reunited people regardless of affiliation.  Whereas an entity itself gives you a hero rep for reuniting people with positions, and that is felt by all members.

 

Depending on the feats you've accomplished, your type of reputation may differ: slaying bandits will earn you the title of "protector of the weak", while doing your hearthperson duty will make you known as a "loyal soldier". Retrieving [[artifact]]s for claimants will make you known as a "Treasure Hunter". On the other hand, if you become known as a thief or a murderer who indiscriminately massacres citizens, people will refuse to speak to you and spit on you. Therefore, it may be desirable to avoid, or at least control, rumor-spreading.

The scale goes from 0 to 100: for instance, in the "hero" scale, you will be known as a "Famous Hero" between 75 and 99, and a "Legendary Hero" at 100.

| Hero || ?

| Buddy || ?

| Grudge || ?

| Animal Partner || ?

| Brawler || ?

| Psycho || ?

| Trade Partner || ?

| Friendly || ?

| Comrade || ?

| Respected Group || ?

| Hated Group || ?

| Enemy Fighter || ?

| Friendly Fighter || ?

| Bully || ?

| Brigand || ?

| Monster || ?

| Bard || Performing a piece of music in front of a person.

| Dancer || ?

| Quareller || ?

| Flatterer || ?

| Hunter || ?

| Protector of the Weak || Slaying bandits.

| Thief || ?

| Information source || ?

| Intruder || ?

You may assume multiple identities as an adventurer. Starting over with a fresh identity will reset your reputation if people don't know you under your previous name. Alternatively, if witnesses see you murder someone, you may try to kill all of them before the site is offloaded (which is a requirement for the rumor system to start working). Or you may move to another civilization entity entirely where your reputation does not follow you.

 

So if you ask after a goblin [[agent]] using their true name or an identity used in a previous town, people in the current town the agent is infiltrating will properly say that they don't know who you are talking about, even if they have a lot of information about the agent under their current alias -- or they might have an opinion about the old identity if they heard a [[rumor]] about it. People can give different answers for the true historical figure and each identity, as well as what they think on sight (which may or may not involve any names -- they keep track of which identities they associate with the physical appearance).