Reputation

In Elite: Dangerous, characters will be able to gain reputations in a wide range of areas, alongside their Elite ranking. NPCs will react differently to players with different reputation - for instance a police NPC is unlikely to respond positively to a player with high Criminality and Piracy reputations, while an NPC from the criminal underworld might offer the same player interesting missions.

The provisional reputations are;

Trade

Smuggling

Piracy

Mercenary

Bounty Hunting

Assassination

Exploration

Espionage

Prospecting

Criminality

Humanity

Ratings and Reputations revised proposal - Frontier forum archive