So I've tried a few more things - opening up pre-existing households, starting new households - and I found that all of the sims have that same reputation level upon loading, before even opening CAS or doing a travel interaction. It's not something I noticed before because I usually don't pay too much attention to reputation and it's so far down in the Simology panel that I wouldn't have thought to check if I hadn't gotten a call from a sim acquaintance about how my reputation had an unsavory acquaintance wanting my number. o.o
Yes, the same (almost) bad reputation. It still says "Neutral", but the bar shows red up to the "Bad" line. I used the in-game "shift-click" cheat to set reputation to true neutral, then after coming out of CAS or traveling, the reputation was back to that (almost) bad setting. There is no reason for these sims to have that reputation level.
If I use those same in-game cheats to set their reputation to "Good", it does not drop back to red after travel or CAS.
Still having this issue; just a heads up. Not sure how to fix it without cheating all my sim reputations to "good".
