Reputation

Overview
Reputation, commonly referred to as "rep", is an important core mechanic of the game. It acts as a check and balance system to help separate law-breakers from model citizens.

Doing various things that are very immoral or illegal will increase your reputation. These include injuring or killing other players in any way, attempted or not, place landmines, destroying parts of a vehicle, hotwiring, restraining innocent people, arresting innocent people, collecting and selling illegal resources, replacing parts on a car that make it worse than what it was, buying from black markets, and selling items to the scrapyard.

There are reputation limits on all jobs and licenses. The police and EMS job have the lowest limit, and various jobs like repairman and mechanic have a higher limit.

There are 4 ways to lower your reputation. It slowly decays over time, you can serve time in jail, you can hire M. Lester to erase some of it, or you can kill someone with significantly more rep than you. Each method has advantages and disadvantages.

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