GangCity distinguishes between respect, your accumulated reputation, and available honor points (HP), your spending allowance. Spend available HP on action bonuses or give respect — or disgrace — to other players.
Earning honor points
Rewards and honor from other players increase your respect; they do not replenish your available HP. Your spending allowance is recalculated weekly based on your rank. The new allowance replaces any remaining points, so unused HP do not accumulate from week to week.
Sending respect and disgrace
You can send honor points to another living player, as honor (positive) or as disgrace (negative). This lets you build reputation with allies, or call out a rival. This costs available HP from your allowance and changes the recipient's respect. It does not give the recipient spendable HP.
Boosts
The most powerful use is boosts: you spend honor points to buy temporary advantages for specific activities, such as:
- Discretion — prevents a rise in city heat when smuggling.
- Connections — increases your chance of breaking out of jail.
- Street Tip — increases your success chance on a robbery.
- Intimidation — increases the payout from extortion.
Carrying out a murder anonymously (wiping your trail to prevent the automatic bounty from this murder) also costs honor points.
Tip
Because your pool resets regularly, it is best to spend your honor points at the moment you benefit most from them — for example a Discretion boost right before a big smuggling run, or Connections when you get caught often.