Reputation and Contract Pay in Multiplayer

Shazzar · Post by **Shazzar** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:41 pm

First of all, I want to say hello everyone!

I bought this game (Legends) about 3 days ago (after only about 40 minutes in the demo heh), and I have been truly blown-away at the quality and features of this indie title. (let alone an indie title from a one-man team!!) Amazing job Vice. You are a powerful inspiration to a fellow artist/entrepenuer/programmer (although my programming was years ago, and just simple text-based Pascal games lol)

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I was under the impression that your reputation in a multiplayer server is "locked" to the defaults, so that any reputation gains/losses you get in singleplayer do not carry over to multiplayer. I took that to mean that you could not gain/lose rep in multiplayer, except in the "Dynamic" server. Well I'm not 100% clear on this, so heres my questions:

#1-- Can reputation be gained/lost while in a multiplayer server, or does it stay at the default rep % regardless of the players actions?

#2-- If the reputation % is locked the to the defaults in mulitplayer, does this mean that contract pay will never increase if a player does a bunch of contracts for one group?

#3-- My main concern regarding rep % is how it will affect my contract pay, so how big a factor is it? Is the player's "reliability" rating for not failing contracts and doing several of them consistantly for one group a bigger factor?

[Edited on 6-23-2009 by Shazzar]

Post by **Vice** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:05 pm

Hello and welcome. Glad you're enjoying the game.

1 - There can be temporary fluctuations while you remain in sector and do various things, but nothing that permanently effects your offline/single player reputations.

2 - For group specific pay adjustments, correct. However, your contract completion record, kill score, and skill rating still follow you into multiplayer, which are primary factors in determining your contract pay.

3 - Not a major factor, your individual ratings and scores related to contracts themselves are the primary factors. Those stay with you in multiplayer.

Shazzar · Post by **Shazzar** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:13 pm

Wonderful, thanks for the clarification Vice, and for a speedy one at that!

I was focusing on rep % too much, even though I had read that there were other factors, and was starting to wonder if doing contracts solo on a multiplayer server were worse than just doing those same contracts solo in singleplayer, where rep could grow.

But now I see that there is really no downside to multiplayer, unless of course with server lag or player-killers (neither of which have I even seen yet, lol)

[Edited on 6-23-2009 by Shazzar]

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:39 pm

Hi Shazzar, Welcome to the Game and Forum.