Make reputation numbers consistent and not confusing everywhere

[jf0]

In career mode, there is a meter at the top with coloured bars, I [I]think[/I] it has numbers on it but they are too tiny I cannot read them. The main menu load game screen shows reputation as a percentage. The contract menu shows it apparently in the units 'gold stars'. In the strategies menu, it shows some arbitrary numbers in one place [I]and[/I] gold stars in another (eg produces 2.75 reputation ... setup cost 35 gold stars). I've been too scared to ever try any strategies, because I have no clue what so ever how the reputation numbers affect the coloured bar at the top, because I never learned how to convert between arbitrary decimal numbers, gold stars, percentage and coloured bars.

Why can't there just be a single number, in the same units, everywhere for reputation points?

This is even more important now that declining contracts apparently costs you one gold star: what does that even mean?

[VolvoxPL]

I can agree on that. It's confusing for me too. This bar has also three colors which does not tell much. Add tooltip on hover with numeric info and short description?

[Shadowmage]

And worse yet... reputation does not come in linearly; all those gains you see on your contracts? Yah, those get reduced before actually being applied.

/agree

The rep system needs a major overhaul for clarity and consistency; especially now that you need to pay rep to 'decline' a contract (srsly, bad idea guys, as long as you have the terrible slot-machine contract system, you need a way to cycle through the bad ones(e.g. tourism contracts that would -lose- money; why should I pay rep to decline it?)).

[klgraham1013]

My question is how it was even implemented like this in the first place? Isn't it easier just to have a consistent design from the get go?