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=The idea of "Trust"=
 Trust is a new player stat intertwined with [[MOD:WCU:Privateer3:ReqKarma|Karma]].
 Note however that while Karma affects mostly trust, Karma is non-faction-specific, whereas
 there's a trust factor for each faction, company and character that is influenced by your
 karma; --i.e.: is added to your karma, or "general trust".
 
 (Note: Are karma and "general trust" the same thing? Almost. General trust is a sort of
 reputation about you, plus the trustworthiness you convey. But the trustworthiness you
 convey, even subliminally, has to do with how much you honestly trust yourself. So your
 little secrets may be secret in the explicit details, but not as secret as you might
 think... ergo: karma.)


=Corporate trust=
 There's only one way to gain initial trust from a company: Check the mission computer for
 missions offered by it and do several of them. How many you need to do before gaining their
 trust is determined by your karma. With good karma, 3. With very bad karma, infinite.

 Once you gain a company's trust, you'll get either,
 a) a fixer giving you a special mission or a whole side-plot
 b) a fixer that offers you a deal on something the company makes
 c) a letter of recommendation, which you can use later when you vet for a mission far
   from Gemini, or from a company that hasn't heard about you.


=Base trust=
 Bartenders' trust represents a base's trust on you. Base defense missions are the surest
 and fastest way of getting a base's trust.
 If a bartender trusts you, he talks to you more, increasing the chances he might give you
 a tip for where to go to start a side-plot.
 A base's trust on you is also a function of your relations to the faction that controls it:
 If you're doing missions for Confeds, you'll probably have at least some bartender trust at
 Perry, even if you never took defend missions for the base, and even if you have pretty bad
 karma.
 Bartenders that trust you should greet you, not just speak to you:
 Say, at +20 they say "Hello, friend."
 At +40 they ask for your name one time, and from then on they call you by name.
 At +60 they buy you drinks every other time, and give you juicy tips.
 At +80 they might talk to you very secret rumors that help you get ahead in some long term
  side-plots.
 When a base's trust on you reaches 100, you should even be able to borrow money from the
 bartender.
 For the sake of consistency, their attitude changes back only if their trust on you falls
 below 20 points of the positive trigger mark. That is:
 If you reached 100 and now you can borrow money, you only go back to not being able to
 borrow if their trust on you falls below 80. But borrowing money temporarily removes 10
 points from their trust, regardless of the amount, until you pay it back.
 Talking to a bartender two or more times in a row should "piss him off", lowering trust
 temporarily by 20 points each time. No long-term effect, though.
 A bartender's trust could go above base trust, though, if you speak to him often, though
 not twice in the same landing. Say, it could go up by one point each time.
 But NOT talking to the bartender ever when you land at the base should decrease his own
 personal "over-trust" by one point for every two landings at other bases since the last
 time you were at his base, down to just the basic "base-trust".

 There should NOT be a "trust number" in any info screen, though. You have to guess how
 much you're trusted by the way the bartender speaks to you.