A simple mod that makes reputation decay to 0 over time. You can change the rate of the decay (default 1 per month) and whether reputation should decay to 0 at all times, or if it should decay to 75 or -75 if cooperative or vengeful (true by default).
Thanks Jaghaimo and Histidine.
I don’t have much to say about it really, aside from the cliche “Vanilla should’ve had this in the first place” I like to spam across my comments in the mod section of the forum, plus a big Thank you SCC
Edit: I noticed the mod does not come with a folder keeping it togheder upon download, so I put all its pieces into a “repdec” and put it into my Mods folder. Does this still work? SOrry I can’t try booting the game up right now!
I also forgot pirates and pathers are supposed to be hostile until now, so I will make them decay towards 50 now. Will come with toggles.
https://github.com/SCC7/ReputationDecay/releases/tag/2.3
I got some questions. Similar to the [Redacted] question above, would this make pirates slowly default to 0 REP with you over time? I think a more natural behaviour would it be for REP to increase or decrease to whatever original REPutation you had with the faction at the start of the game, so Pirates would need to be constantly pacified or else the rep would slowly decrease again to its original and such.
I got some questions. Similar to the [Redacted] question above, would this make pirates slowly default to 0 REP with you over time? I think a more natural behaviour would it be for REP to increase or decrease to whatever original REPutation you had with the faction at the start of the game, so Pirates would need to be constantly pacified or else the rep would slowly decrease again to its original and such.
Currently it works with a csv file describing factions, their equilibrium points and the decay rate.
I wonder how this works with Nexerelin and it’s dynamic faction relationships.
The mod will not care. If you have faction events enabled, I would say my mod is superfluous, but you do you.
It’s also worth noting that I can’t just blanket set all factions to decay towards 0, because of boss factions, so none of mod factions will decay.
If you want mod factions to have their reputation decay, too, you can make your own .csv file (or edit the one in the mod) and put any mod factions you want there, you just have to know their ID. Due to how the file is loaded, you can put any mod factions there, regardless of if you have their mods enabled or not.
If you want mod factions to have their reputation decay, too, you can make your own .csv file (or edit the one in the mod) and put any mod factions you want there, you just have to know their ID. Due to how the file is loaded, you can put any mod factions there, regardless of if you have their mods enabled or not.
Wooo, that’s perfect.
A couple of suggestions;
1) A setting so that holding a commission with a faction will prevent your rep with them from decaying below a certain point, and/or reduce rep decay rate.
2) Per-faction thresholds and rates. So, say, pirates will rapidly trend towards -50 unless you put in the effort to get above 0, whilst independents will gradually trend towards 0 no matter what, and so on.
Obviously that last one will be a bit more complicated, but it could add a bit more flavour to the factions.
Also agreeing with folks saying ‘should be vanilla’ too.