Just wanted to see what everyone's thoughts on the reputation is, positive or negative. Any issues you've had with it?My personal opinion: I like the fact that there are 3 different tiers for positive and negative reputations, and that all of them have different effects on the way other sims will act towards your sims. I also like that's it's challenging to gain a reputation. However, I think some positive or negative actions don't cause a change in reputation when they should, either because of a bug or because they were overlooked. I also don't like how they treated cheating/ affairs: I think if a sims is out in public and cheating on their partner, their reputation should get lower, NOT just when their spouse finds out. It just doesn't seem realistic, especially for a celebrity. This seems to be an issue in all the sims games.What are your thoughts?

It’s kind of slow going for my Sims since you only gain reputation from being in public. But when my sims are in public the bar doesn’t seem to go up by much so idk :/

Don't have the game yet, but I feel like cheating would only be noticeable in public if you're famous. Otherwise, strangers wouldn't know you're cheating, unless maybe you imagine it to be a small tight-knit community where everyone knows everyone.

At least so far we haven't seen reputation take a hit for Woohoo with the occult like in Sims 3 -- that always bugged me. I'm still in the early stages with one of my Sims; he just moved in his girlfriend who he knocked up, but I'm thinking of having him start a side relationship with another Sim in the neighborhood to see what happens. (Both him and his girlfriend are Notable Newcomers; she has a Pristine Reputation but he's Neutral so far.)

"AquaGamer1212;c-16851821" wrote:It’s kind of slow going for my Sims since you only gain reputation from being in public. But when my sims are in public the bar doesn’t seem to go up by much so idk :/I agree it's slow going, but I like the challenge. I feel like some positive and negative actions don't register correctly when in public, so I think it definitely needs some fine-tuning

I haven't done a lot with the reputaion so I don't know yet how it affects my sims. My actor just got a good reputation but I haven't seen how that will affect him yet.

What do you think of the Reputation System?

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AquaGamer1212
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
It’s kind of slow going for my Sims since you only gain reputation from being in public. But when my sims are in public the bar doesn’t seem to go up by much so idk :/
icemanfresh
Legend
7 years ago
Don't have the game yet, but I feel like cheating would only be noticeable in public if you're famous. Otherwise, strangers wouldn't know you're cheating, unless maybe you imagine it to be a small tight-knit community where everyone knows everyone.
justme22
7 years ago
At least so far we haven't seen reputation take a hit for Woohoo with the occult like in Sims 3 -- that always bugged me. I'm still in the early stages with one of my Sims; he just moved in his girlfriend who he knocked up, but I'm thinking of having him start a side relationship with another Sim in the neighborhood to see what happens. (Both him and his girlfriend are Notable Newcomers; she has a Pristine Reputation but he's Neutral so far.)
fjb792
7 years ago
"AquaGamer1212;c-16851821" wrote:
It’s kind of slow going for my Sims since you only gain reputation from being in public. But when my sims are in public the bar doesn’t seem to go up by much so idk :/

I agree it's slow going, but I like the challenge. I feel like some positive and negative actions don't register correctly when in public, so I think it definitely needs some fine-tuning
fjb792
7 years ago
"icmnfrsh;c-16851825" wrote:
Don't have the game yet, but I feel like cheating would only be noticeable in public if you're famous. Otherwise, strangers wouldn't know you're cheating, unless maybe you imagine it to be a small tight-knit community where everyone knows everyone.

That makes sense. If you're a celebrity it should definitely make your reputation worse. But from what I've heard, it only effects you if your spouse catches you cheating in public, which I think is rather unrealistic :/
Sigzy_29
Legend
7 years ago
I haven't done a lot with the reputaion so I don't know yet how it affects my sims. My actor just got a good reputation but I haven't seen how that will affect him yet.
Biotic_Warlock
7 years ago
I hope this isn't anything like in TS3, where all sorts of weird things cause changes to reputation. Some of them were a bit excessive.
kaeyresky
7 years ago
My sim had gotten a pristine reputation just by introducing himself to a few people on set while I was playing through the acting career. The only thing I've noticed in regards to reputation so far are text messages. He gets texts messages from people asking to become good friends, or people asking to give his number to their friends, or people asking for donations because they heard he was a good person... and then people angry with him for drinking plasma without permission (even tho I've stopped doing that long ago). Just lots and lots of text messages.
AineOfMay
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
The reputation and the fame system both are giving me a reason to go to community lots. I like it.
fjb792
7 years ago
"To7m;c-16852190" wrote:
Nope. It works no matter if you’re famous or not. If a third sim sees you; they’ll tell. And that’s if the sim you’re cheating with doesn’t first.

I’ve done it twice; once with the pancakes (caught by Eliza herself, that kicked off, she beat my sim up in the street which gave her in more or a bad rep) second was with Dominic Fyres or whatever his name is, they got caught my Morgan and my sim started getting calls the next sim day.

I love it personally, the more sims that witness, the more it effects your sim.

—T

I just tested this out with one of my married sims. I had her go out to a club and flirt with various men. She is also a celebrity. Nothing happened. No lowering of reputation at all. This was also at a club with papparazi and other celebrities present.

I also just tested it with another celebrity sim I have who has a boyfriend. She went to a club in Del Sol Valley and woohooed in the closet with a random guy. No changes....

So I'm not sure where you're seeing this; you're the first person I've seen to claim this occurs :/