Reputation

Reputation is a feature that was introduced in The Urbz: Sims in the City and return in The Sims 2 Apartment Life and The Sims 3: Generations expansion packs.

The Urbz: Sims in the City
Rep is determined by your relationship with Urbz, Urbz can go from Level 0 to Level 100. The maxium Rep an Urb can have is 999. Rep is on the HUD and when it gets to the big Star, the Rep level will go up. Socializing with Urbz to build relationship will increase your Reputation. Rep is needed to get in VIP Rooms, Go to new areas and get new items (Such as a new Skill Builder machine), and as well as seeing your Urb on posters.

The Sims 2 Apartment Life
Reputation is determined by the interactions your Sim does while out and about town, and can be viewed in the Simology tab under Personality: the greener it is, the better, while conversely the more red that fills the bar, the worse off in Reputation the particular Sim is, and is accompanied by a short phrase describing the level of the Reputation they currently have.

Good Interactions, such as Admiring another Sim or friendly banter, will give you better Reputation; whereas Bad interactions, such as any ''Irritate. . . or Fight. . .'' interactions, will slowly lower it. Different Reputation levels can affect your Sim's interactions with others: the Better Reputation they have, the more others notice how good they are and it becomes easier for that Sim to make friends, with more success with certain social interactions. If they have a Bad Reputation, the opposite applies: people outwardly loath being around them and it is harder to make friends, with social interactions becoming less successful. If you get a Romance or Popularity Sim to earn enough Good reputation, you can get a really successful Sim.

A Sim's Personality naturally dictates how they earn Reputation: Nicer Sims will naturally gain Good Reputation much quicker and easier than others, and can even have a Want to have a "Good Reputation". Mean Sims on the other hand, often find it easier to make enemies by doing mean interactions, and get worse Reputations as a result. However, meaner Sims will sometimes actually want to have a "Bad Reputation"!

If a Sim admires other Sims their Reputation will get better, but if they Gossip their Reputation will get worse.

If your Sim has a good Reputation, they have a chance of other Sims "Networking" with them. These Sims will offer a free sample of a product they're testing (Usually an expensive item such as a computer or TV set) guarantee a promotion at your Sim's workplace the next time they go into work, persuade your Sim's landlord to reduce the rent, or hook you up on a blind date with a friend of theirs (Who will immediately fall from the sky and have a boosted relationship score with your Sim)

The Sims 3: Generations
Sims in the Generations expansion pack can attain romantic reputation. Romantic reputations are given based on what other neighbors think of romantic interactions the Sim performs, they'll notice when the Sims have dates or display affection towards other Sims and every other romantic interactions and number of partners, those factors are tracked in the Scrapbook and may change the Sim's reputation, once gained, romantic reputations are hardly lost.

The factors tracked in the Scrapbook that determine which romantic reputation the Sim will have are: the number of romantic relationships developed in the Sim's lifetime, the number of times the Sim has cheated on romantic partners and the longest romance the Sim has had. The possible romantic reputations are :"Faithful" or "Eternally Faithful", if the Sim is in a long term monogamous relationship, "Cheater" or "Player", if the neighbors have noticed the Sim has more than one romantic relationship at the same time, and "Casanova" or "Don Juan" for Sims who have been in many relationships throughout their lives. These romantic reputations affect the gameplay, Sims who have the "Cheater" reputation have a harder time when trying to seduce others, the cheated Sim may also spread that has been cheated by the spouse, making the neighborhood aware the Sim is a cheater; having WooHoo with "Don Juan" Sims will give a sim the moodlet "Incredible Time". Others include "Naughty", "Manipulator", and "Exploring Their Options."