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Rep Scores... IG or OOG?

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FuzzySadist FuzzySadist's picture
Rep Scores... IG or OOG?
Are REP scores IG or OOG? ie, if I an NPC is looking up a PC's stats in the Mesh... does he see "HyperCorp Rep 60" or does he see "Really popular with the Hypercorps"?
BonSequitur BonSequitur's picture
My assumption is that in-game
My assumption is that in-game rep values are just representations of your standing on the various social networks, which in practice are an amalgam of actual rep score, reviews from other users on the network and various other metrics which would typically be collated by a muse. So what someone sees is "his c-rep profile is in the 60th percentile of reputation scores and plastered in glowing reviews." It would be a little convenient that every disparate social network standardised on the same 0-99 scale or works the same way. My take on it is that each network has its own rating system. The Eye uses some pseudo-"objective" percentile system, while c-rep uses stars and @-rep uses a non-ranking, cumulative system where you "raise flags" for other users, etcetera.
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Lorsa Lorsa's picture
It's certainly possible to
It's certainly possible to run it as rep scores being in-game. I'm sure many people do for convenience. If you want to add flair to it however, BonSequiter has some nice suggestions. For more simplicity you could also say that the only thing visible is the "rep level", which ranges from 1-5. So you could say "he has low @-rep" or "her r-rep is high". I often do that anyway when I don't want to figure out the exact rep score of an NPC.
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