Your combat rating, e.g. Elite, doesn't tell us how it was earned, by honest self-defence or by targeting innocents. Your legal rating isn't also the whole picture, as this can change over time, and bad deeds may go unnoticed in lawless systems (#37). Thus, we need a "reputation" rating that describes how honest and reliable you are.
Completing missions will earn you a reputation as a reliable person, even if these may be saintly acts of aid missions (#40), or dirty bar-room score-settling kill contracts (#39). Failing or abandoning missions will mark you as unreliable and change the nature of jobs proffered. A lone-wolf character who only looks after themselves will be offered the most dangerous (and profitable) jobs doing other people's dirty work for them.
Your combat rating, e.g. Elite, doesn't tell us how it was earned, by honest self-defence or by targeting innocents. Your legal rating isn't also the whole picture, as this can change over time, and bad deeds may go unnoticed in lawless systems (#37). Thus, we need a "reputation" rating that describes how honest and reliable you are.
Completing missions will earn you a reputation as a reliable person, even if these may be saintly acts of aid missions (#40), or dirty bar-room score-settling kill contracts (#39). Failing or abandoning missions will mark you as unreliable and change the nature of jobs proffered. A lone-wolf character who only looks after themselves will be offered the most dangerous (and profitable) jobs doing other people's dirty work for them.