Acquaintance and Economic Reputation

[septembervirgin]

I think Goblinworks states in their blog that they wish to limit the spread of economic reputation to mutual contacts. If this is an intention, the spread of reputation should be through contacts who:

1. Are of same alignment
2. Have known each other for a time (even if they don't adventure together)
3. Show no signs of being pet accounts (run by the same identity or credit card)

OR

1. Are of similar alignments
2. Have adventured or traded together extensively
3. Have known each other for a time
4. Show no signs of being pet accounts

OR

1. Are of markedly different alignments
2. Live in the same community
3. Have adventured or traded together extensively
4. Have known each other for a time
5. Show no signs of being pet accounts

You may wish to permit free mutual access to reputation reports in a guild or community, but this might make things easy for gold farmers and account sellers.

[Onishi]

septembervirgin wrote:

I think Goblinworks states in their blog that they wish to limit the spread of economic reputation to mutual contacts. If this is an intention, the spread of reputation should be through contacts who:

1. Are of same alignment
2. Have known each other for a time (even if they don't adventure together)
3. Show no signs of being pet accounts (run by the same identity or credit card)

OR

1. Are of similar alignments
2. Have adventured or traded together extensively
3. Have known each other for a time
4. Show no signs of being pet accounts

OR

1. Are of markedly different alignments
2. Live in the same community
3. Have adventured or traded together extensively
4. Have known each other for a time
5. Show no signs of being pet accounts

You may wish to permit free mutual access to reputation reports in a guild or community, but this might make things easy for gold farmers and account sellers.

I would imagine the reports being kept within charters/settlements (IE systems in which players control who actually is listed as a member) is a pretty straightfoward solution. IE say someone is a major scammer, in a charter of scammers, he does a bad deal and rips of the 7th veil. He most likely is listed as trustworthy to his peers of scammers, but untrustworthy to members of the 7th veil at that point. His reputation goes bad with the group of the person he has upset. At which point 7th veil in this example could very easily contact the leader of scammers organization, and request something done, if nothing is done then 7th veil may declare the scammers entire charter/settlement as untrustworthy.