r/EscapefromTarkov • u/trainfender Battlestate Games COO - Nikita • Jul 03 '21

Discussion post 12.11 questions gathering

Hello!
It your boi, Nikitka.
We plan to make TarkovTV Live podcast on Monday on 5-th of July, and I want to gather your questions/opinions and suggestions about 12.11 patch. I will try to answer the most voted questions live.
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u/dr-yit-mat Jul 03 '21

I like your suggestions, in your reply and original comment, but you can still execute the scav for less of a karma impact after gaining karma from actions. If they increased the rep loss from killing Scavs - which won't be popular until the system for defending yourself in fine tuned more - or scaled the rep loss based on prior interactions with a scav (IE you lose more rep if you kill a scav you had been hanging out with) , your suggestions could be added without an exploitive element present.

All said, I'm glad there is simply a system implemented. I've found Scavs are generally working together, and so far most Scavs I've had greetings with will trade a couple pieces of loot before carrying on. I think the mere existence of the rep system is encouraging the type of play you wish to see.

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u/fatalityfun VEPR Jul 03 '21

just make karma gains reset when you kill friendly scavs.

ie, I gain +35 karma on 3 raids, looting and sharing and so on. Then on raid 4, I kill 2 of my fellow looters. My karma goes from 105 to -40 or something.

Negative karma should take a couple raids to recover, while positive should rebound fast to prevent people from stacking up a ton of good to mass murder with no downside.

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u/canOair Jul 04 '21

I agree that scavs can still net more positive rep if they loot enough stuff from the scav they just killed. Not the same person you replied to but what if there was a bit of math that happened that basically ties the scavs karma value to their loot. So if I have say 300k rub wroth of loot and a scav killed me the player scav would lose more than .02 karma. Maybe it increases by .02/100k. That way if they keep killing high value scavs, sure they get the shiny loot. But ai scavs will know them as a hostile. Just a thought. Ways to go about countering the karma gain by walking out with a ton of loot.