The KSP Reputation system has some issues!

[SkyRender]

So I decided to set up a 50% reputation-to-funds strategy, seeing as my space program was ripe with reputation and could get by on less. After running a few missions, I noticed that my reputation... was not going up. It seemed to be more or less frozen in place, in fact, despite the fact that I was still getting appreciable amounts of it from contracts. Curious, I checked the quicksave file before and after running a contract with a decently high reputation payout. Before the contract was completed, my rep was 490.8923. After, it was 490.1023. Even though I was supposedly gaining reputation from the contract according to the game, it was actually stealing my reputation away! Something's definitely buggy here, so consider this fair warning: use reputation-to-anything strategies at your own risk!

[Aragosnat]

Yeah. Noticed that too. Just not in depth. Would be nice if we could gain max rep even with our rep being eaten up. But, I guess since we are beating up our rep. Our max rep would also take a hit as well.

[Rasip]

Do you have any other strategies running? I'm fairly sure there is one that takes rep from what you have with every launch.

[Commissioner Tadpole]

Do you have any other strategies running? I'm fairly sure there is one that takes rep from what you have with every launch.

Yes, Agressive Negotiations. A thread has been made about that one, but I wouldn't expect other Reputation-to-X strategies to also ruin it.

[xub313]

According to the wiki, reputation points gained from contracts decrease exponentially as you get closer to the limit of 1000 rep. Perhaps the strategies aren't taking this into account.

[SkyRender]

Actually, it seems to be a bug with reputation-to-anything contracts. It scales in such a way that, at 50% you "approximately" get no Reputation at all, while at 100% you lose however much reputation the mission should have given you instead. If you set it to 10%, you get 80% of the mission's normal reputation; 45%, you end up getting 10% of the mission's normal reputation, etc. It seems to be deducting the reputation twice, in short.

[X-SR71]

Oh no! I just set a 60% reputation to funds strategy