Questions about reputation_change.xml

Hello!

I’ve noticed that when I murder or rob, and nobody sees it, my reputation still decreases greatly. That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Now, looking at a version of reputation_change.xml I see entries for:

change="-0.6" name="crime_murder_individual" reputation_change_id="40" reputation_change_target_id="7"

change="-0.4" name="crime_murder_reported" reputation_change_id="41" reputation_change_target_id="6"

Can someone explain? It seems that a reported crime is actually less harmful than whatever “individual” crime is. Surely that’s a bug. I can’t understand why an unreported crime would have any impact whatsoever.

Thanks for your time.

Edit: Can’t seem to make the lt & gt symbols show up in the preformated text, so I removed them.