Faction reputation: all rewards, penalties and recovery

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The feedback box tracks five separate relationships, each from −200 to +200. Hover a marker to read the effect and whether it is active. Positive effects require reputation at or above their threshold; negative effects require reputation at or below it. Crossing back removes the threshold effect. The display rounds to two decimals, but checks use the underlying value: a displayed 20.00 can still be just below 20. The Black Market’s loss multiplier is always active. The Cartel belongs to its special starting scenario and is covered separately.

All five faction tables

Lower Level Citizens

Threshold	Effect	What happens
≥ 100	Pillar of the Lower Levels	You will now receive 15% discount from Joe Wild and Dr. Jackson.
≥ 80	Tight Lips	Selling Contraband to customers from the Lower Levels will only create 50% of its value in available evidence.
≥ 60	Word on the Street	You will occasionally receive tips from the Lower Levels about upcoming events.
≥ 40	Rare Goods	New types of customers offering Rare or Contraband goods will start to visit your Store.
≥ 20	Referral	100% chance that 1 additional random customer will visit the Store per day.
≤ -20	Poor Reviews	100% chance that 1 less random customer will visit your Store per day.
≤ -40	Mistrusted	You cannot sell contraband to this faction. Black Market distrust also closes the Underground Exchange and doubles cleaning fees.
≤ -60	Marked	You will be targeted more frequently by thieves. Insurance will now cost 2x.
≤ -80	Shunned	All suppliers will refuse to take your calls. Dr. Jackson will no longer visit your Store, except under special circumstances.
≤ -100	Mob Justice	A mob from the Lower Levels will attack your Store and lynch you.

Upper Level Citizens

Threshold	Effect	What happens
≥ 100	Rave Reviews	All customers using a budget gain 25% of their original budget, including other factions.
≥ 80	Household Name	You have 20% chance of receiving 1 additional daily customer from the Upper Levels.
≥ 60	Gossipmonger	You will receive advanced notice of most Upper Levels events.
≥ 40	Upper Level Charity	A benefactor from the Upper Levels will occasionally donate goods to your Store.
≥ 20	Pourboire	You will receive 15% bonus when selling items to customers from the Upper Levels.
0	Discerning Taste	While a Luxury Item is in your display case, you have (1 + ⌊max(0,UL)/5⌋)% chance each day of receiving an additional customer looking to buy Luxury Items. Rises with Reputation. This customer can only visit once every 5 days. Normal introduction: day14 onward; skipping has no day13 restriction.
≤ -40	Tourist Trap	Customers from the Upper Levels are less likely to visit your Store.
≤ -60	Petition to Security	Negative Security reputation changes ×2; investigation speed ×1.5.

Security

Threshold	Effect	What happens
≥ 100	VIP	Stops ordinary scheduled inspections and ordinary burglary. Showcase-triggered checks and special story searches have their own conditions.
≥ 80	Reliable Vendor	Surplus stock improves; all budget customers gain 50% of their original budget. With the Upper Levels bonus, the total is +75%, not compounded.
≥ 60	Trusted	Inspections will be less frequent, and any investigations will progress slower. You will receive advanced warning of any impending Security Operation.
≥ 40	Security Protection	Due to your good Reputation with Security, Thieves are more reluctant to target your Store.
≥ 20	Security Surplus	A Security Surplus Merchant will occasionally visit the Store.
0	Requisition Order	A Security Requisition Officer will occasionally visit your Store to purchase Food and Medical Supplies. Trading with them will increase your Reputation.
≤ -20	Watchlist	Security has added you on their watchlist. Any investigation on you will progress x1.2 times faster.
≤ -40	Must Be The Wind	Security will not longer respond to your alarms.
≤ -60	Most Wanted	Any investigation on you will progress x1.5 times faster.
≤ -80	No Stone Unturned	Security will no longer sent you lazy or shady inspectors. Additionally, inspections will be more frequent.
≤ -100	By Any Means	Security will immediately arrest and jail you, regardless of any evidence they have (or don’t have).

Black Market

Threshold	Effect	What happens
≥ 60	Underground Network	You will receive advanced notice of most Black Market events.
≥ 40	Safe Hands	You are guaranteed a visit from a Thief once per week. All thieves will now offer improved wares.
≥ 20	Small Time Broker	The marker is displayed, but grants no additional thief or stock bonus. Those benefits begin at 40.
0	Honor Amongst Thieves	All negative Black Market changes ×2, at every reputation level.
≤ -40	Blacklisted	You cannot sell contraband to this faction. Black Market distrust also closes the Underground Exchange and doubles cleaning fees.
≤ -60	Uninsurable	Insurance services will not longer be available to you.

Revolution

Threshold	Effect	What happens
≥ 80	Raid Loot	Members of the Revolution will occasionally visit to sell off their loot from raids. Prices will improve with higher Reputation.
≥ 60	Friend of the Revolution	You will receive advanced notice of most Revolution events.
≥ 40	Revolution Quartermaster	A Revolution Quartermaster will occasionally visit your Store to sell Materials at a discount. The discount will improve with higher Reputation.
≥ 20	Revolution Marketplace Request	You will occasionally receive Marketplace Requests from various Revolution cells.
≤ -40	Blacklisted	Customers sympathetic to the Revolution are less likely to visit your Store.
≤ -100	Hit list	A revolution hit squad will be immediately tasked with eliminating you.

Changes, multipliers and recovery

On Normal, a legal ordinary trade worth 400 before bargaining gives approximately +0.66 Lower Levels, +1.20 Upper Levels or +1.00 to other factions. Selling cheaper or buying dearer can increase the gain; use the bargaining preview. Cozy/Normal/Hard/Challenge multiply positive changes by 1.5/1/0.75/0.5 and negative changes by 0.5/1/1.25/2. Blabbermouth halves positive Black Market and Revolution gains; Sycophant adds 25% to Upper Levels gains. Reporting a faction’s ordinary customer starts at a raw −8, worsens by 2 each time and bottoms at −20; the Black Market multiplier still applies. Correct reports are therefore not reputation-neutral.

Stop failed bargaining, false accusations and exposed fraud first. Use permitted legal trades, concessions and faction requests to recover. A successful Underground Exchange recipe gives base Black Market +0.1875, but the exchange is blocked at −40; use remaining legal trade or Criminal Connections instead. Crossing above the blocking threshold restores ordinary access, but does not reset Odin’s permanently refused phone state. A mob, immediate arrest or bombing already triggered at the shutter cannot be bought off.

Lower Levels 40 checks rare sellers on Mondays/Fridays:50% rare merchant, then on failure 25% gunsmith, then on failure 25% rare chemist; all can fail. Security 20 schedules Wednesday surplus; Security 40 reduces the ordinary burglary base roll by 16. Revolution 40 schedules a Sunday quartermaster, discount 20 + integer division(reputation−40)/4%; Revolution 80 adds Friday raid loot. These reputation visitors are added separately from ordinary customer slots.

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