King Charming

[Buddy]

There is an achievment where you have to be "popular in every village and town". Does that mean you need 100 reputation in every village and town or is a lower value already enough? If you need 100, what is a good way to increase your reputation easily? And what about the village where nobody lives or the two bandit ones? Do they also count?

[Johnson]

I read that it's supposed to be +80 in all villages exept the those locked at 0.

That said, it has not yet unlocked for me and all my villages are between 81 and 100.

[Ary]

Originally posted by xantosownage:

I read that it's supposed to be +80 in all villages exept the those locked at 0.

That said, it has not yet unlocked for me and all my villages are between 81 and 100.

all towns + villages + THE MONASTERY to be exact. Maybe try looking it up in the Achievement Guide, if you have problems? Lots been explained there already and if not there are a lot of helpfull people in the disscussion

Originally posted by Buddy:

Does that mean you need 100 reputation in every village and town or is a lower value already enough? If you need 100, what is a good way to increase your reputation easily? And what about the village where nobody lives or the two bandit ones? Do they also count?

As beeing said already: no just 80+ in all "normal" towns & villages, and a good way is haggeling (but giving them more money instead of less) and doing quests.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

Originally posted by Buddy:

There is an achievment where you have to be "popular in every village and town". Does that mean you need 100 reputation in every village and town or is a lower value already enough? If you need 100, what is a good way to increase your reputation easily? And what about the village where nobody lives or the two bandit ones? Do they also count?

Strictly speaking it works like this:
You need 10 Towns to be 80+ in their summary rating for you. So Talmberg at 84 total with villagers at 100 and soldiers at 60ish counts.

The thing is that 10 happens to be the count of all locations you have some influence over.
Except for the monastery, which you can influence only during the monk quest, you can gain favor doing quests, helping random encounters, etc.

Also, if you help somebody who is attacked by a bandit, their rep will go up. This fact is used to gain favor with Merhojed Soldiers. They spawn in random encounters fighting bandits and cumans on the road triangle between samopesh, inn in the glade and merhojed. Help them during their fights and eventually your rep goes up.

Or you cheat a bit. The conditions to gain each achievement are tied to statistic numbers that you can influence with mods, if you're so inclined, and the game ♥♥♥♥♥♥ you out of an achievement because of glitches.

[BiggusMickus]

Trouble is, from my experience it's impossible to get 100 reputation in Uzhitz. Do all the quests there, overpay all the vendors, be a generally awesome bro to the folks in Uzhitz & the best you can get to is 72.

That's not even mentioning my first playthrough where for no reason my rep in Uzhitz was locked at -20 for no reason at all... Bugs. So. Many. Bugs.

The game's a shambles.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

Originally posted by BiggusMickus:

Trouble is, from my experience it's impossible to get 100 reputation in Uzhitz. Do all the quests there, overpay all the vendors, be a generally awesome bro to the folks in Uzhitz & the best you can get to is 72.

That's not even mentioning my first playthrough where for no reason my rep in Uzhitz was locked at -20 for no reason at all... Bugs. So. Many. Bugs.

The game's a shambles.

Hence my hint with the mods/cheats. You probably did the Dance with the Devil quest, which ruins rep and you're going to have a hard time regaining it. You should be able to build it back up hoping for the "Chase the thief" mini-quests that seem to trigger there quite regularly. But maybe they don't for you any more... As you say.. Bugs.

[Buddy]

Originally posted by kermit:

Or you cheat a bit. The conditions to gain each achievement are tied to statistic numbers that you can influence with mods, if you're so inclined, and the game ♥♥♥♥♥♥ you out of an achievement because of glitches.

Well, the game sets my rep in Uzhitz always to 19 for no reason.

[Ary]

Originally posted by BiggusMickus:

Trouble is, from my experience it's impossible to get 100 reputation in Uzhitz. Do all the quests there, overpay all the vendors, be a generally awesome bro to the folks in Uzhitz & the best you can get to is 72.

That's not even mentioning my first playthrough where for no reason my rep in Uzhitz was locked at -20 for no reason at all... Bugs. So. Many. Bugs.

The game's a shambles.

I dont know what you did wrong, man :S
i only paid the Inn keeper and the vendor at the place in front, and got it to 83+ no problem... i did it on the current patch (1.3) and had to buy & quest it up from 59. Just for reference.

[BiggusMickus]

Originally posted by kermit:

You probably did the Dance with the Devil quest, which ruins rep and you're going to have a hard time regaining it.

Funny you should say that...

In playline 1, while stuck at -20 I did the witchy quest several times & tried all the possible outcomes - none affected the rep. I started experimenting & made a bizarre discovery; In the morning when the women were dead, I picked up Vera's corpse & carried it back to town to see what happened. I got arrested, agreed to imprisonment, did a week in the pokey & came out with rep at +12! WTF?

In playline 2 (post patch, rep in Uz at 72) I did the witchy quest several times with all outcomes to see what the differences to rep were - There is no difference at all, whether the men die, the women die, or nobody dies. I tried the Vera-corpse-lugging again, went to pokey again & rep went down to 20 (can I get a reeee-load) which is basically the opposite of the first time.

The game's a shambles.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

To be honest, I looked into the mechanics of how rep works a bit. And it's much more complicated and 'simulated' than I expected. Things appear to change for no reason, and at the wrong time. But believe it or not, most of that is actually 'working as intended'. It's just that the player is not getting a heads' up, some changes in rep are queued, and some simply happen while there's things going on off-screen. If you're technically inclined, whip up winrar, unpack the scripts.pak file and grep the xml files for 'reputation', to get an Idea of how it works...

[BiggusMickus]

Originally posted by Ary:

Originally posted by BiggusMickus:

Trouble is, from my experience it's impossible to get 100 reputation in Uzhitz. Do all the quests there, overpay all the vendors, be a generally awesome bro to the folks in Uzhitz & the best you can get to is 72.

That's not even mentioning my first playthrough where for no reason my rep in Uzhitz was locked at -20 for no reason at all... Bugs. So. Many. Bugs.

The game's a shambles.

I dont know what you did wrong, man :S
i only paid the Inn keeper and the vendor at the place in front, and got it to 83+ no problem... i did it on the current patch (1.3) and had to buy & quest it up from 59. Just for reference.

I know what I did wrong, I paid full price for half a game.

[Buddy]

Well, reputation doesn´t seem to work at all anymore for me.

[BiggusMickus]

Amusingly enough, since I last posted in this thread earlier today, my reputation in Uzhitz has gone from 72 to -36.

I had a wee think about what I might have done to annoy them, since I haven't been there in days (game days), and I hadn't stolen anything, attacked anyone, killed anyone or even done any trespassing. All I could come up with was I sold some rotten food to a trader, just to clear my inv, but that doesn't affect rep.

Oh! I worked it out... The game's a half finished shambles.

[Wagbit]

any ideas on the state of Samopesh? I have no quests available there at all. It has always been a rep of zero. And unsure about the battle events that take place around there---i believe it was sassu guards first few ones I stumbled accross.

I'm about to enter monestary but chose to finish a bunch of the side-quests, however nothing in Samopesh for me to do. Any advice anyone?

[Nanothequex]

I think my reputation might be bugged. I have 100 across most cities (monastery included) all except for Rattay 84 and Talmberg 81. Unless they changed the requirement of the amount of rep you need to 100. Then I guess I'm all out of luck. Rattay countryside is at 0 and will not increase and the Talmberg quarrymen won't increase their rep with me even if I give them more money when I trade with the blacksmith at the quarrry site.

[Wagbit]

this i noticed as well even after the quarry sidequest being finished and figuring out that it was not their fault for the stone. Just as well with the heist quest....and you Judas...you still get no rep for the quarrymen. Also no option of any kind with Robard to either 1) return the sum that was taken or 2) compensate to the effort in anyway.

I will say though for Uzitiz I did all sidequests aside from the Witch Hunt. I got it to 100 but it was stuck at 78 until I slept and rested for a couple of days and saw changes from 78 to 100. The Pie quest being the last major quest I did in that town.

As for places like Samopesh where I still have no prompt for a quest being there or any events such as catching a thief...or aiding the guards(of that respected village) from bandits or even the Traders though I believe they are completely unifiliated with any town. So I'm still testing what rep changes happen when it comes to bartering with all merchants/innkeepers/maids...in any given town. But I will endeavor to find something conclusive that will help others figure out the rep system better.