Notoriety & Reputation

[Tyler]

Player Reputation & Notoriety System​

To encourage meaningful roleplay, reduce random violence, and create long-term consequences for hostile behavior, we are introducing a Reputation & Notoriety System.

This system is automatic, persistent, and slow to forgive, rewarding restraint and punishing repeated violent or “bad karma” actions.

Reputation Basics​

• Every player starts at +5 reputation
• Reputation is affected by:
  
  • Player damage
  • Player kills
  • Negative karma actions (configured per server)
• Reputation recovers extremely slowly over time

This system is designed to track patterns, not punish one-off mistakes.

Losing Reputation​

Reputation loss is probabilistic, not guaranteed, to avoid abuse and edge cases.

Damage​

• Each instance of damage has a configurable % chance (default: 5%) to reduce reputation

Deaths​

• Killing a player has a much higher chance (default: 50%) to apply –1 reputation

Bad Karma Actions​

• Server-defined actions (configurable)
• Can apply direct or chance-based reputation loss

Reputation Recovery​

• Reputation recovers automatically over time
• Recovery rate is intentionally very slow
  • Example: +1 reputation per hour
• This prevents players from “grinding off” bad behavior quickly

Reputation is meant to reflect long-term conduct, not short sessions.

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Notorious Status “Raider”​

Once a player reaches –1 reputation, they become Notorious.

Effects of Notorious Status​

• Player is marked as a Raider
• A red, glowing skull appears above their head
• Raider status is visible to all players
• While Notorious:
  • All negative reputation chances are doubled
  • Violence and bad karma actions spiral faster

This creates a natural outlaw role, as well as certain rules apply to them such as "open season" on KOS.

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[Colm_Rebel]

This sounds very cool, I did have a similar idea in my head that I was going to suggest, Im glad to see that this will be part of the server.