Career Mode Reputation

[D-Day]

Somewhat tangentially, I just arrived in Barras, deep in Capellan space and have 5 pirate missions. They hate me, as well they should. At least I got some shiny stuff from the shop.

 

[jj284b]

I think reputation in Career mode is kinda backwards... If you ally with somebody, your reputation wont ever go below 0... which means, you can take all missions you want against your ally without problem and still have all benefits... so practically, you work for enemy, improve relations with them (to neutral)... but thats not how ally should behave...

I think it old system was a lot better - you do missions for a faction? more you do, better friends you are... You fight against faction? you become enemy...

 

[Donvale]

I have noticed one pretty big issue with reputation, if you opt for greater reputation in the payout, this also scales the negative reputation as well making it very hard to improve your overall reputation (although you can still do one specific target).
My personal feeling is that the negative hit to target reputation should be unaffected by your payment negotiations with your employer, they really aren't going to care much if you give up money in return for favours!
I also noticed that with lower reputation (<5) that target negative reputation hit rounds to the same value as client reputation increase.