Reputation

Your Reputation signifies the status of your relationship with the major NPC Factions. You can see the faction of a NPC fleet on the Open Sea or a ship in a battle by hovering over it with the mouse.

Importance

Some reputations are more important than others.

Trade Unions

A player cannot use the Auction House of a nation, nor build structures in the port, if their reputation with that nation's Trade Union is below indifferent (-500). This is especially important for Freetraders who often want to be able to buy massive amounts of goods cheap in foreign nations and then use their large cargo ships to haul that to the major hubs of their nations economy. For all careers it is important to be able to talk with the Auction Houses in cities with a Regional Auction House to enable their free warehouse there. Once the Warehouse has been established it can always be accessed even if the reputation with the Trade Union drops.

Navy

Foreign Navy ships will attack you more frequently if your reputation with them is low. Conversely, they will refrain from attacking you if it is high.

Influences

Sinking Ships

Each sunk NPC ship will alter your reputation. The changes of reputation are based on the Faction of the sunk NPC ship. If the ship is part of one of the major factions sinking it will decrease your reputation with that faction by roughly the level of the NPC. It might also reduce or increase your reputation with other factions. Killing ships of minor factions, which are usually Pirates, will increase your reputation with one or a few major factions. See the matrix listed at the bottom of this page for more a list of minor factions and the known influences of sinking their ships.

Missions

You can increase your reputation with certain Factions through specific missions. The change in reputation will be visible amongst the rewards. Junk Merchant collection quests are known for being a good way to increase your relationship with a certain Trade Union to regain access to certain Auction Houses.

Trade Union Hand-Ins

Each Trade Union (British Trade Union, French Trade Union, Spanish Trade Union and Smugglers Union) has two daily hand-in missions. These are located in Havana and Santo Domingo for the Spanish, in Turtling Bay and St. John's for the British, in Leogane and Fort-de-France for the French and in Ruddy Cove and Matthew Town for the Smugglers. Every day, the two quests are each drawn randomly from a pool of possibilities: 25 Iron Ingots, 22 Sailcloth, 65 Barrels of Rum or 12 Blocks of Lignum Vitae.

Reputation Status

-2500	-500	0	500	2500	4500
Loathed	Distrusted	Indifferent	Trusted	Esteemed	Celebrated

Factions

British			Missions/Items for:
British East India Company	BEIC		Gaining points	Losing points
British Navy	BN		Gaining points	Losing points
British Royal Society	BRS		Gaining points	Losing points
British Trade Union	BTU	(No British AH access if below -500)	Gaining points	Losing points
French			Missions/Items for:
Academie Nationale	FAN		Gaining points	Losing points
French Mississippi Company	FMC		Gaining points	Losing points
French Navy	FN		Gaining points	Losing points
French Trade Union	FTU	(No French AH access if below -500)	Gaining points	Losing points
Spain			Missions/Items for:
Spanish Navy	SN		Gaining points	Losing points
Spanish Trade Union	STU	(No Spain AH access if below -500)	Gaining points	Losing points
The House of Trade	SHoT		Gaining points	Losing points
Pirate			Missions/Items for:
Brethren of the Coast	PBotC		Gaining points	Losing points
Iron Maidens	PIM		Gaining points	Losing points
Men of War	PMoW		Gaining points	Losing points
Sea Dogs	PSD		Gaining points	Losing points
Smugglers Union	PSU	(No Pirate AH access if below -500)	Gaining points	Losing points
The Dread Saints	PTDS		Gaining points	Losing points
Other			Missions/Items for:
Dutch West India Company	DWIC		Gaining points	Losing points
Knights of Christ	KoC		Gaining points	Losing points
Knights Templar	KT		Gaining points	Losing points
The Inquisition	TI		Gaining points	Losing points

Reputation Change Matrix

The table below helps you to find out whom to seek to gain reputation at some faction. If need a hint for a spot where you can find ships to hunt for, then look into the sea combat guide.

• Factions associated with an auction house a surrounded with a blue dashed line.
• Factions associated with the navy are surrounded with a red dashed line.
• Hold the mouse over the faction abbreviation to see the name as tooltip or look it up in list above.
• The table is sortable, to see what NPC factions effect the faction you want to get a better standing with, click on the arrows below the abbreviation of the faction name.
• If the level of the ships was much lower than your level, no reputation is granted!
• To identify a ship's faction, focus on it and look at it's "society" name.
• If you attack ships of the primary factions, you loose reputation at the same faction.

tag name	BEIC	BN	BRS	BTU	FAN	FMC	FN	FTU	SN	STU	SHoT	PBotC	PIM	PMoW	PSD	PSU	PTDS	DWIC	KoC	KT	TI
Bloody Arms							+					+
La Confrérie Libre						++	+++	+
Cortez		+							+
Dead Redcoats		+
Drakesmen		+
Hijos Verdederos									+	+	+
Lost Ironsides	+++	+++		+
Merrymen	++	+++		+								+++
Mithridati												+
Samedien							+
Sharktooth Raiders												+
Swampcat							+
Varyags												+++				+
Dread Saints																					+

key

• + Small gain
• ++ Moderate gain
• +++ Large gain