Reputation and declining contracts

[Aethon]

I'm in a new 1.1 career.  I declined 2 focused Kerbin survey contract and lost 2 points of reputation.  In the last version you could toggle a button so declining annoying contracts didn't cost rep. but I don't see that option anywhere now.  Am I missing it?

Can anyone confirm that declining contracts before accepting them costs rep, and that there is no way to toggle this off now? 

[Plusck]

It's in the settings you choose at the start when creating and naming a new game. If you chose "medium" difficulty then refusing contracts costs 2 rep. If you just used the normal difficulty (i.e. without clicking on the difficulty setting at all) it should be -1.

This was much the same in 1.0.5. I don't know if there is any way to toggle it off without messing with your save file.

[KocLobster]

You don't have to decline contracts, you can just let them expire for free too..

[Violent Jeb]

If you chose "custom game" when setting up career, its the bottom right option, decline penalty. Goes from 0-10 iirc.

[ghpstage]

I really don't like this change as getting the next world's first contract frequently requires declining several trivial but pointless contracts.. Its very annoying.

Glad to see there's an option I hadn't noticed. Thanks

Edited April 22, 2016 by ghpstage