caelaislinn
commented
4 years ago Fixing the issues with the missions is fairly high on my todo list, along with rebalancing the revolution gamemode, phases and objectives.
I'v had discussions with players, and it's possible that some of the bugs are a misunderstanding of how the rep system works as it can be unintuitive. To help compensate that, I'm probably going to remove reputation decay and reduce rep loss for a failed mission.
If faction rep is in the negatives, it should always decay towards 0 unless another mission fails, so that sounds like a bug.
The credits in the account should be spendable on ordinary cargo items. So even with factions locked there should be some basic gear to spend it on.
Also, we discussed locking out other faction gear once you get to the final rep tier but in the end decided that time should be the limiting factor, so based on expected mission duration, players should only be able to max out rep or 1 or 2 factions in a 2.5 hour round.
jeesmies
Description of issue
Most rounds I have played as URF, it has been impossible to gain the 100 reputation threshold required for purchasing most powerful items from the black market. I can grind missions multiple hours and because of bad reputation payouts on missions compared to length, reputation decay, and bugs that sometimes cause missions to fail even when completed, giving a huge spike of negative reputation, or a bug that seemingly causes a faction to decay into negative, and continuing to lower periodically, essentially locking the faction. My personal record was having -150 reputation with a faction that I had not been able to communicate with since the start of the round.
What this ends up doing is I'll have done missions multiple hours at worst, and the round will end to a restart vote with hundreds of thousands of unusable credits and heavy frustration since reputation is required to purchase almost anything as an insurrectionist.
Difference between expected and actual behavior
Expectation would be that reputation is a system that forces you to focus on 1 or 2 of the 4 available factions, but in reality it's a system that sometimes, seemingly randomly, completely locks you out of being able to gain access to more powerful equipment via bad luck with mission rewards especially combined with the fast rate of reputation decay.
Steps to reproduce
Play URF as an insurrectionist and try your best to gain 100 or even 150 reputation to gain access to the most powerful gear your faction can. You'll most likely fail completely on most rounds.
Specific information for locating
Length of time in which bug has been known to occur
At least since I started actively playing at the start of 2020.
Client version, Server revision & Game ID
See above, every round, client and server version I've played as an insurrectionist in the last 3 months.
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AFTERWORD
Personally, I would suggest making reputation not decay, but reduce reputation rewards. Maybe even make reputation not lower from abandoning missions to allow re-rolling missions and prevent losing reputation to a bugged mission objective, which could be counteracted by reducing reputation rewards further.