Forum:Lonesome road karma drop

How low will my karma drop with the NCR if i nuke them and the legion at the end of lonesome road? i am currently at idolized.

- you would become a wildchild in both thier eyes--Gogoloco 23:21, September 29, 2011 (UTC)

thanks for that, but how bad is that? i have played the game several times but i dont really understand any reputation level besides hated, vilified, liked, and idolized. i have almost zero infamy with the NCR, so would that helo at all?

If you haven't visited Ambassador Crocker or gotten invited to The Fort yet, you'll be fine with both factions because those events reset your rep. I nuked both and became a wild child with both. I had already gotten the Mark of Caesar from Vulpes outside the Tops and so I failed all the unfinished Legion quests. All Legionaries became hostile. I hadn't visited Ambassador Crocker yet and no NCR became hostile and I didn't fail any quests. I don't know if it was actually worth it for the kit I collected out of the Long 15 and Dry Wells for losing out on all the Legion quests at the point I was at during my playthrough, but there definitely was a good amount of ammo and high level weapons & armor in both locations. Hope that helps.--DeadlyPrey 01:54, September 30, 2011 (UTC)

This is the downfall of LR if you want to get all unique items offered from the pack. You'll notice that Wild Child is the farthest in the list and unchangeable, considering its fully vilified and fully idolized. This implies you are 100% neutral with them. Here is a link to a reputation chart that explains it all. Fallout:_New_Vegas_reputations --OhMyParry 03:08, September 26, 2011 (UTC) OhMyPerry helped me with this same prob the link outta help explain the rep system--Gogoloco 02:13, September 30, 2011 (UTC)

Ok, that explains the reputation deal, but how will they act toward me? will the NCR be hostile or or basically as indiffrent as they were before you left the docs house in goodsprings for the first time? because i can deal with indiffrent, but hostile will cause alot of problems during the end of the game, and for that matter, how will Boone and my other NCR loving compainons react?

at the wild child setting they are neutral an unchanging nautral no up no down untill you pick a side and progress so far through that sides story line then they dont like ya any more and boone i dont know sorry mabey the boone page on the wiki would help but idk--Gogoloco 23:38, September 30, 2011 (UTC)

I read that committing any bad deeds on a faction while wearing a disguise will make the reputation loss go towards your disguised self and not your real self. So if you wore an NCR or Legion disguise, could reputation loss also be avoided when nuking one side or the other? --Reaper477 7:43, October 6, 2011 (UTC)

EDIT: Found in the notes section of the Reputations page: "Wearing faction armor can be used to kill members of an opposing faction without gaining infamy with that faction. For example, if the player wears Legion armor and kills an NCR soldier, infamy will not be gained." I'll try this out during the ending of lonesome road and report back.

UPDATE: Plain and simple, nothing works. I tried both NCR and Legion disguises, putting on and taking off the dusguise at different times, nothing. You're better off not wearing faction armor because that puts your good rep down to neutral, resulting in automatic vilification. Pretty aggravating actually. On my current playthrough I sided with legion and had a "liked" rep with them at the time, and once bombing legion to get the awesome legion armor, the best rep I can have is "wild child".