Only gripe.. reputation makes no sense...

[Holy Athena]

Asking someone, or "coarcing", or trying to charm someone (speak sweetly?) how DARE you?! and your reputation goes down..

But it's perfectly fine to go Spanish Inquisition mode on someone, or Mug them and bash their face in.. A oKay with no rep hit....

[Yaber]

You mug people at night, they can't see who you are, no reputation loss :P

Anyway it's a game, don't use RL logic in games, just enjoy and have fun :D

[nephalim]

But it makes sense for 8 characters on totally different dangerous journeys who don't know each other to decide to travel together on first meet? The game kind of requires suspension of disbelief.

[Minneyar]

It's kind of a weird holdover from the first game, where all of the path actions were divided broadly into "light" path actions (which were guaranteed to work but had some kind of requirement, such as paying money for items or being a minimum level to obtain information) and "dark" path actions that had no requirement but had a random chance of success. Having a random success of chance is pointless if you can just spam it until you succeed, so they also have a cost associated with failure, namely your "reputation" going down and needing to pay at a tavern to restore it. Of course, most people just save scummed until they were successful, anyway.

Personally, I would've preferred if they just completely dropped the ones with a random chance of success and made all of them either guaranteed to work or require the player to complete some in-game challenge (such as beating up an NPC), but I guess they either wanted to keep some of the original mechanics or just couldn't think of 16 distinct path actions that fit those criteria.

[ScootaKuH]

Originally posted by nephalim:

But it makes sense for 8 characters on totally different dangerous journeys who don't know each other to decide to travel together on first meet? The game kind of requires suspension of disbelief.

And let's not forget, some characters can materialise lightning, ice or fire from thin air. I think it's safe to say realism isn't top of the list

[rpgforme]

There are different npcs at night versus day a lot of the time. You can't mug the day only npcs. You can't inquire night npcs. And so forth.

They even have duplicate abilities. So if you don't like randomness (i don't), there is an equivalent ability based on level.

I really don't see a problem with the way they implemented it.

[Holy Athena]

Originally posted by rpgforme:

There are different npcs at night versus day a lot of the time. You can't mug the day only npcs. You can't inquire night npcs. And so forth.

They even have duplicate abilities. So if you don't like randomness (i don't), there is an equivalent ability based on level.

I really don't see a problem with the way they implemented it.

I don't think you understood the post.

[Tyrant]

Originally posted by rpgforme:

There are different npcs at night versus day a lot of the time. You can't mug the day only npcs. You can't inquire night npcs. And so forth.

They even have duplicate abilities. So if you don't like randomness (i don't), there is an equivalent ability based on level.

I really don't see a problem with the way they implemented it.

Their locations change, but they're usually still around.

[shinsai10]

If you mug or steal from someone and fail, that makes you a third rate player, in which the game punishes you for "trying your luck" or gambling the RNG. All of the light path actions only require level caps, which seems like an incentive reward for doing boring things like grinding for levels.

[Splinter of Chaos]

Maybe it's not so much rep as in how much people like you, but how good you are at being you. Like, you try to mug some dude and he's like "no" and then tells all their friends "geez, did you see that guy who tried to mug me? What a wimp." and then everyone thinks less of you because you don't know how to properly mug people.