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Due to seeing a player far newer than myself, with a Famous and a Renown vehicle I have to wonder about my own vehicle rep. This player said he "just kept taking them out" and didnt keep track of how many scouts they had been on. So he didnt buy them with rep already.

I have 2 cars that have been on 60 scouts (not counting returns) with no rep. I DO however change the Tag after every scout so I have a record of how many scouts they have been on. Does changing the tag have an effect like changing the name?

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Posted Dec 26, 2012, 11:05 pm

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Nope. Tag is personal reference material. I think the famous/renowned status is a combination of things, not just how many times it's been out.

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Posted Dec 26, 2012, 11:19 pm	Last edited Dec 26, 2012, 11:20 pm by JeeTeeOh

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Yep, it's a combo of things.
And no one except Sam knows what those things really are.
He's been asked about it a number of times, but he prefers to keep what they are a mystery.

Not much help, I know......

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Posted Dec 26, 2012, 11:55 pm

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if you rename or change the skin, i think you loose 1/2 your rep

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Posted Dec 27, 2012, 12:03 am

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I can't help thinking rep is awarded based on vehicle performance to some degree, this is because I've seen vehicles gain it at differing rates with mostly equal rates.

I also heavily suspect there are differing thresholds on different chassis, case and point a laser muscle will fame much faster than an FE

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Posted Dec 27, 2012, 12:23 am

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answered my own Q just now, gaining Renown on my twin HMG Merc on scout #61.

So skinning it damages rep too? That I didnt know. makes sense though, Incognito.

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Posted Dec 27, 2012, 12:27 am	Last edited Dec 27, 2012, 12:29 am by StCrispin

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*Tinker* said:

if you rename or change the skin, i think you loose 1/2 your rep

I actually confirmed with Sam some time ago that the skin has no bearing on rep. Name only.

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Posted Dec 27, 2012, 2:15 am

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Theres lots involved; how much the car does, whom against, who sees the car in action, I would think all take some part in how well known the vehicle is.

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Posted Dec 27, 2012, 2:24 am

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Did anyone mention the amount of injuries/deaths the vehicle in question does on scouts? I think that if your red a lot of NPCs then it helps you get famous much faster. weather this is based on purely reding, or the byproduct of increased bad rep from killing people i don't know

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Posted Dec 27, 2012, 12:21 pm

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pretty sure hitting the less famous but far more dangerous 'player' gangs would make a good name for ones car.

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Posted Dec 27, 2012, 1:13 pm

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StCrispin said:

Due to seeing a player far newer than myself, with a Famous and a Renown vehicle I have to wonder about my own vehicle rep.

Well you didn't start that long after me so I have to question your vehicles reps as well! Personally I have a bundle of decent rep vehicles (2 legendary, 3 famous and 7 renowned) and I've lost a couple of vehicles with rep as well...

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Posted Jan 6, 2013, 5:57 am

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wow...

Im sure my only 2 repped cars (renown) will die before they get to legendary! Im scared to even take them out now that they have rep.

Does higher rep equate to more dangerous foes who come looking for you?

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Posted Jan 6, 2013, 6:37 am

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Redding out senior members of NPC gangs that are terrorizing a town will increase town rep as well as vehicle rep. Also higher rep vehicles also give your gangers more confidence while inside and makes them harder to demo.

The wiki does say that to reach renowned status, you need to do approximately 60-75 scouts.

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Posted Jan 6, 2013, 6:59 am

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Yeah the 60 scout mark appears to be correct and a clarification may be in order: seems to be that the 60 scouts count is for the entire trip. I did not count return encounters in my figures. Both Mercs got renown on the completion of outting #60. Im trying to get a pair of less kill happy phos to 60 scouts now to see if redding like a serial killer had anyrhing to so with the mercs rep. They nearly always redded 3/4 or more of their opponents since "being gentle with the loot" is difficult with twin HMGs.

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Posted Jan 7, 2013, 2:26 am

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Just don't rename the ride.... it halves your built up rep....

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Posted Jan 7, 2013, 12:48 pm

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yeah, unless of course you suffer from...

This:

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Also higher rep vehicles also give your gangers more confidence while inside and makes them harder to demo.

In which case, you gain less courage... as you don't get that stressed. You can take a beating in a legendary car and not go red.

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Posted Jan 7, 2013, 2:23 pm