Reputation
Reputation is a measure of The Center's fame and image, influenced by its success and failures, in contracts, in record breaking, and in its general operations. Reputation can be seen as a "currency" not unlike funds and science, and is mainly spent on instating Strategies in the Administration Facility. Passively, a high reputation does three things: 1) it increases the difficulty of contracts with typically better rewards; 2) it will grant better rewards for all contracts across the board; and 3) it gives Mission Control more contract slots.
As such, spending or saving reputation is a strategic decision, that has The Center choosing between specialization of rewards (by having an active Administration), or a more balanced set of rewards with more options (by having a stronger Mission Control)
The upper limit of reputation is 1000. The points actually obtained for a contract decrease exponentially as the level gets nearer to the limit so a player will never reach it.
Changes
- Reputation is no longer awarded for safely recovering Kerbals.
- Initial release
References
- First Contract Playthrough by Miguel (Maxmaps) uploaded on the official Kerbal Space Program channel
