Urban = Goes from 0 (wilderness) to + (urban) Location dependent. Boosts skills

Confidence = Goes from - to + Follows you every where. Boosts skills. Negative confidence can offset the urban bonus.

Rep = Goes from - to 0. Providence dependent. Effects abilities.


Yamcer

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"You know, while I understand the importance of seeing the (personal) validity in other's arguments, it's impossible for me to believe fully that others are correct. If their argument was correct, I'd change mine." - My GF

To followup on the Reputation:

Having a bad reputation certain abilities will be removed from you, but on returning reputation to good standings the abilities should return.

There is no bonus or benefit, other then having your abilities to having your reputation high.

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Victory Over Lyras, on the 397th year and 156 days since the Victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

Really?

Do you have something to confirm this high reputation makes pleading innocent sightly easier?

I thought the GMs were developing abilities, bonuses for having a high reputation because it was a system that was underdeveloped, at least in that regard?


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Victory Over Lyras, on the 397th year and 156 days since the Victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

>There is no bonus or benefit, other then having your abilities to having your reputation high.

Doesn't rep also affect the cost of using contacts?

I've also been wondering. Is the Thief location bonus instant or is there a drift similar to rangers. If I've been hunting outside town for hours then go into town to do a stealing run or pick boxes, am I instantly back at my urban bonus or am I slowly/quickly regaining urban bonus?

Thanks.

Also I think I read it somewhere, but are those random neutral/rural type shops in the middle of cities going to be changed to urban?

Thief bonus is instant change, you lose all bonus as soon as you go into a neutral / rural area (although you aren't penalized) and you get it back immediately on stepping back into urban areas, with the size of the bonus dependent on the urbanity.

The Thief urban bonus is smaller than Ranger wild bonus, but Confidence can bring it it to the same maximum as the current Ranger bonus, if you're in a city.

-Z

There are 3 'bonus' you need to track. One is not on your character, but the effect of the surroundings on your character. This does not travel with you. The other two do travel with you. One is how confident you are. This is a matter of knowing what you can do, where and when. It's like knowing you are good at tests, when faced with a test. You do better at the test in front of you because you know you are good at this. The final one is your reputation, which I understand can be a real pain if you get a bad one. I've never done this, so, I have a heck of a time even turning myself in, if I need to do that, and my fines, if I get them, are very small. The innocent bystander is generally taken to have been seeing things.


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