Newcomer / Intro Bounty Hunting: Why didn't my reputation increase?

MartialDoctor

M
Hey all,

I was under the impression that turning in bounties would increase your reputation with the minor factions and any major factions they are associated with. However, after turning in a few bounties, my reputation is not showing the blue increase arrow next to the faction names. It is still showing a red arrow. I had abandoned a couple of difficult bounty missions previously but, otherwise, have done nothing negative.

Why is is that the arrow is still red? Shouldn't it show blue once I turned in bounties for them?

Thanks.

Edit: After doing some more bounty hunting, it eventually turned blue. So, I'm a bit curious as to what that arrow actually means. I thought it meant just your most recent action (as in only the last one) since I have seen it disappear before... Is it then just all your most recent actions together?
 
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Dommarraa

Dommarraa
The arrow is the total of recent changes. What counts as recent is vague, so it is a vague indicator. Don't get hung up on it.
 

The Tick

The Tick
Agree with Dommarraa - it's all very vague. Intentional, as FDev states.

First of all, it's important that we talk about the same thing here. You certainly understand the difference between reputation (your relationship with a minor faction) and influence (the political weight a minor faction has locally in this system).
Reputation changes (arrows) are updated within minutes, and certainly with any instancing change (e.g. hyperjump).
As Dommarraa said, it's a sum of all the recent factors:
- the regular effect of 'returning to the mean', i.e., if you are at an extreme rep like hostile or allied, you slowy return to unfriendly or friendly, respectively
- abandoning or even failing missions have a significantly bigger negative impact (on rep, not on influence any more) than succeeding in that mission
- doing missions and handing them in
- delivering combat bonds, bounty hunting vouchers (effect on the minor factions that 'own' them)
- selling exploration data and trading (effect on faction controlling that station)

So, you can now guess yourself how you exactly came to this rep change :).
 

kastaldi

K
I always get confused with rep, sometimes red arrows appear sudddenly then I realize I shot a wanted ship of that faction or did a mission that made me friendly with one faction and unfriendly with another. I always choose missions that give me rep+ with major factions (emp/fed/all) to get those rank missions and ignore the others unless profitable.
 
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