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Fallout: New Vegas Hints
What about the new "faction reputation" thing?
1 of 10: This is a completely separate thing from karma. There are 13 different factions that you can have varying reputation levels with. You can check your current rep level with any faction that you have any sort of rep with in the Stats/General section of your Pip-Boy.
2 of 10: A reputation level is based on the combination of two values: your fame with that faction, and your infamy. Both are hidden numbers that start at zero and can only go up. That means you can gain both fame and infamy with a faction to end up with a mixed reputation with them.
3 of 10: The way to increase your fame with a faction is to complete quests (including undocumented quests) in a way that does them a favor. Your infamy with a faction increases when you take actions against them in a quest, are seen attacking or killing faction members, or get caught stealing items belonging to the faction.
4 of 10: It's never directly beneficial to increase your infamy with any faction, though sometimes you won't be able to help it. Some quests require you to choose which of two opposing factions to help, and finishing those quests will inevitably gain you fame points with one faction and infamy points with the other one.
5 of 10: It's sometimes possible to avoid the infamy gains, such as when you're helping members of one faction attack members of another. You'll only gain infamy with the faction you're attacking if you're seen killing their guys, so either be very sneaky while killing them or dodge around and let the guys you're helping do all the killing.
6 of 10: There are actually very few quests that you can't finish without gaining infamy with a faction. That's good, because if your overall reputation with a faction gets too low, its members will attack you on sight.
7 of 10: Getting a good reputation with a faction will get you perks such as discounts with faction merchants, free items given by grateful faction members, and the use of a safehouse as a home. Also, some quests aren't available until you get your rep with a certain faction up high enough.
8 of 10: When browsing the fast-travel locations you've discovered on the game's world map, you'll notice that some of them have faction-rep notations in parenthesis right after the names. For instance, Goodsprings starts out with the word "neutral" after its name, and that changes to "accepted" after you do Sunny Smiles' two quests.
9 of 10: Whenever you're in or near an area that's marked on the world map with a reputation category, be careful not to do anything to annoy the members of the faction who reside there unless you need to in order to gain favor with another faction for a quest, or something like that.
10 of 10: NOTE: You can check the four World Map zones' annotated map keys to see which faction(s) if any are associated with each primary and secondary map location. Not all faction-associated primary locations have parenthesized rep notes after them.
