Reputation

Good actions, such as participating in civilization building, may result in a character gaining positive node reputation. Bad actions taken, such as failing certain quests, may result in gaining negative reputation. This reputation is gained or lost on a per-node basis.

• Excessive negative reputation may cause a character to be deemed enemy of the state of a node.

• Negative reputation may open up certain quest lines that the darker, seedier side of the world are interested in.

The more good aligned or civilization building aligned tasks that you complete, you get higher positive reputation. But if you get low or bad reputation you could be deemed enemy of the state of a node. You could be deemed a bad actor and it might raise prices for you, but it also might open up certain quest lines that the darker, seedier side of the world are interested in. – Steven Sharif

Certain NPCs and node vendors will react differently to player characters based on their reputation within the node or with "factions" within the node (such as social organizations).

• Node reputation affects access to certain node vendors, specific goods or services that they sell, and the pricing of those items.

• NPC guards will kill corrupted players on sight.

Node reputation is a separate mechanic that also deals as a predicate for the vendors that you have access to as a player. And so you can establish that node reputation by doing certain activities within the node, by progressing within certain social organizations, or certain religions within the node; and then that predicate serves as your access either to items granularly within a vendor's access table, or to just vendors as a whole. It just depends; and there's different thresholds you have to meet across different vendors. – Steven Sharif

Some of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap.

• NPCs will add a player to their hate list if that player heals, buffs or otherwise assists any player on their hate list.

Node-to-node reputation

Example Ren'Kai node policy affecting node-to-node reputation.

Node-to-node reputation activities include trade agreements and wars between nodes.

• Completing mayoral commissions will reward node-to-node reputation.

See also

• Nodes
• Player corruption
• Leadership powers