Reputation... How does it works?

[Jaeleth]

I noticed that, during my career, reputation was always climbing. But when I started to have Eve, Jool, and so on, contracts, they were mixed with easy contracts as well, as a rule of thumb I accept ALL contracts and fulfill them all, but reputation started to decline, first 1 percentage point, now the second. Is it caused by the fact that I am accepting too easy contracts at a point in the game that I should only accept difficult (3*) ones? Should I decline, then, (1*) or even (2*) contracts? A pitty, because some of them are still fun and relaxing to do

How does this reputation marker works then?

Edited October 20, 2015 by Jaeleth
Answered

[Warzouz]

I think the higher your reputation is, the less reputation you get (but you'll still get some).

In my career, I'm at 95%, but I used contacts to convert 100% science to cash and 100% cash to reputation for a while.

[Clipperride]

I'm not sure how you are loosing Reputation, unless you fail or cancel a contract. So far I've found I can redo easy missions to earn the funds for my own pet projects without any penalty.

[legoclone09]

You might have been running the Explore Jool contract, and the other contracts would have auto-cancelled, so you lose rep and a bit of money. I would get Kerbal Alarm Clock, and set an alarm for when your ships get to other planets. You can do other things in the 3-4 years it takes to get to other planets.

[klesh]

You might have been running the Explore Jool contract, and the other contracts would have auto-cancelled...

Is there some ominous Explore Jool contract that is known for auto-cancelling other contracts or something?

[Thegamer211]

Is there some ominous Explore Jool contract that is known for auto-cancelling other contracts or something?

No, but I think most Kerbin range contracts have deadlines that end in less than 3 years, or the time it takes for a jool mission.

[Laie]

How does this reputation marker works then?

It's not a straight counter like funds or science. In funds or science, 1+1=2. With rep, it's more difficult. The more Reputation you already have, the harder it is to increase it some more.

But: As long as you do well, it will always go up; imperceptibly, perhaps, as it takes a lot of reputation points to get from 80 to 81 percent. One or two points from a part test will make no noticable difference in your reputation level, but if you look into the savefile, you'll see that it has increased by a very slight bit.

Your Reputation will only go down if you somehow get negative points: failing a contract, killing kerbals, that sort of thing. Also some strategies IIRC -- do you have any active strategies? That might be your sink.

[Jaeleth]

Thanks for the tips guys, I think I'll be getting closer attention to strategies since I have one active, it is to transform science in money so it shouldn't matter but i'll take a closer look or cancel it since I don't need any more science and money is not in short supply at this stage. I didn't loose kerbals but I did lost one or 2 ships, maybe I shouldn't have scrapped that big ship heading towards eve just because of a slight error in insertion angle, which turned out into not being able to aerobrake it enough for insertion... . I'll take the advice of warzouz and convert all points to reputation. With science maxed out and 14000 surplus and over 20 million credits the only marker I find it funny to grow now is reputation ), as long as I don't loose a whole fleet of ships money should suffice .

[magnemoe]

As i understand reputation has an cap on 1000, only issue is that if your reputation is almost 1000 like 980 and you get 21 reputation from an contract the sum will be larger than 1000 and you don't get the reputation.

This also applies for converting funds or science to reputation, you get nothing for the 20k science from the jool mega mission