Why does a donation of food increase Unrest and Lockdown while decreasing Reputation?

[Riepah]

Hi there.

See title. I just donated 4 Animal Food. As expected, it decreases Famine and Economic Bust, while increasing Economic Boom and Influence.

However, it decreased Reputation and increased Lockdown and Unrest. What gives? Is a donation of food not supposed to increase my Reputation? Isn't it supposed to decrease Unrest? I've no idea what Lockdown stands for.

 

[superoc]

Did that mission belong the a lower % faction in the system? You gotta check to who it belongs when you pick one!!! Sometimes pirate faction appears in the list also! Choosing a mission and checking to wich faction it helps will give you a clue to what rep you will push and the negative aspect of it!

 

[Riepah]

Did that mission belong the a lower % faction in the system? You gotta check to who it belongs when you pick one!!! Sometimes pirate faction appears in the list also! Choosing a mission and checking to wich faction it helps will give you a clue to what rep you will push and the negative aspect of it!

No, it belonged to the currently most popular faction and the one I wanted to support, I double checked. It also didn't push my Rep with one Faction while decreasing my Rep with another - it just decreased my Reputation, period. I know doing missions for faction A may decrease my standing with faction B; but donating to faction A should definitely NOT decrease my reputation with faction A, but that's what happened here.

 

[Gibbonici]

I've noticed that too. I would've thought that it would increase your Reputation, and be negative to the faction's Influence and neutral on its Economic Boom (giving free stuff is bad for economies but having people not starving is good for economies, thus cancelling each other out). I can sort of see how Unrest might increase (food aid is often stolen and abused by gangs) and how Lockdown follows that, but that might be a bit of over-thinking on my part.

The various factional statuses could do with a bit of descriptive text that explains what's happening and how the missions they generate affect them. It wouldn't have to go into the actual numbers, all it would need to be is a bit of flavour text that gives an idea of causes and effects.

 

[Riepah]

The various factional statuses could do with a bit of descriptive text that explains what's happening and how the missions they generate affect them. It wouldn't have to go into the actual numbers, all it would need to be is a bit of flavour text that gives an idea of causes and effects.

Yeah, more info on the stats would be very welcome. But the reputation decrease is definitely ridiculous - even the descriptions of those donation missions mention that you'll have their gratitude rather than their scorn, and nobody should EVER hate me for giving them free stuff they asked for.

"Hey, can I have a cigarette?" "Sure, here you go!" "Aww man, you're such a jerk!"