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Questions from a player on Rep and IDs, need help answering them

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Thu, 2012-11-01 21:51

bibliophile20 bibliophile20's picture

Questions from a player on Rep and IDs, need help answering them

Just got an email from one of my potential players, and I'm not certain as to all of the answers, having not actually played or GMed yet, so I'm coming to the forum looking for answers. My apologies if some of these have been asked and answered before: How does having multiple identities work? Anything special that has to be done, or can rep just be split among IDs? How easily can you check someone's rep? Does anyone looking automatically know what someone's rep is in every network (For the ID used, of course). Or can some reps be hidden without changing ID? For example, having g-rep is probably a pretty big red flag if law enforcement can just look at you and see it. I would imagine you can only see someone's rep if you're on that network? If so, how secure are networks? (ie how difficult might it be for an agent of the Planetary Consortium or Jovian Republic to join @-rep and thus be able to see who has high standing with Autonomists?) How easy is it for someone to research me and find out that I'm an AGI?

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Thu, 2012-11-01 23:05

OneTrikPony OneTrikPony's picture

Unless you spend a

Unless you spend a metricshitton of CP on social skills and Savy it will be pretty easy for some people to figure out that you're an AGI just by interacting with you. With the, possible, exception of the Ultimate's U-Rep networks are not exclusive to factions. Anyone can gain (or loose) rep with a faction simply by interacting with them. This is especially true in locales where Factions are intermixed in close proximity. Barsoomians probably have C-Rep, cops and bounty hunters probably have G-Rep Your Mesh ID (p.246) makes your Rep profile automatically viewable (see the picture on p 285) unless you constantly run in Privacy mode (p 252). Privacy mode presents a different set of compications. However it is often desirable to stop everyone you encounter from viewing certain aspects of your rep profile so compartmentalizing your social interactions under multiple ID's is important for some characters, (like the criminal you mention in your post). Because your Rep is attached to your name, which is attached to your mesh ID, (which is attached to your current morph's ID nano tat, and your back up insurance, and your Cred accounts, and sometimes a brainprint scan) you can't effectively use a Rep score in a network across multiple mesh ID's. At least, you can't do that if you don't want it to be exceedingly simple to track all ID's to the same Ego. So, for example, if you're lookin to be an Argonaught AGI with a great rep on the RNA network, but you'd like to interact freely in the inner system; you're probably going to have to live a double life with one identity obscuring your nature as as an AGI and build your rep separately in each identity.

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Mea Culpa: My mode of speech can make others feel uninvited to argue or participate. This is the EXACT opposite of what I intend when I post.