Lower Levels

The Lower Levels are your neighbourhood and your most frequent customers. Workers, parents, clinic doctors, inventors and scavengers all come through the door. They can’t pay much, but they remember how you treat them.

What they want

• Medicine, food and supplies. A Lower Levels doctor brings a budget for the clinic’s medical supplies. A Lower Levels inventor wants Materials, Energy Cells, Tools and Modules.

Raising standing

The Lower Levels are the slowest faction to please and the easiest to lose. Their trade counts at ×0.66, the lowest rate of any faction, and they are most of your traffic: 85 of the 125 customer types the game can build are Lower Levels, 52 of them scavengers.

What moves it	Effect
Any trade	the standard rate, then ×0.66
The Food Bank Supplier	×3 — the most reputation per credit you can earn here
Giving a Naloxgone Injector away	+1
Charging for one	−4
Shooting a confirmed aug	+2
Shooting an ordinary customer	−15, the heaviest civilian penalty of any faction
Reporting a Lower Levels customer	−8, then 2 worse each time, down to −20
Confronting a customer and being wrong	−2
The blackmailer being caught	−30

Six of the eight faces on the wanted list are Lower Levels, so most bounties you collect are paid out of your neighbourhood standing. An Alarm Transmitter Module broadcast cannot reach the Lower Levels at all.

See Reputation & factions for the shared rate and the multipliers that apply to every trade.

Standing and perks

Perks switch on as your standing reaches each value: good ones at or above a positive number, penalties at or below a negative one.

Standing	Perk	Effect
+100	Pillar of the Lower Levels	You will now receive 15% discount from Joe Wild and Dr. Jackson.You've earned the respect of the Lower Levels. Even other Lower Levels leaders recognize the good you do.
+80	Tight Lips	Selling Contraband to customers from the Lower Levels will only create 50% of its value in available evidence.You've earned their trust. They know you're good for it, and they're not going to rat you out.
+60	Word on the Street	You will occasionally receive tips from the Lower Levels about upcoming events.The people of the Lower Levels have their ears to the ground. If they trust you, they'll keep you in the loop, too.
+40	Rare Goods	New types of customers offering Rare or Contraband goods will start to visit your Store.With the right connections, even the Lower Levels can offer up something worth your while.
+20	Referral	100% chance that 1 additional random customer will visit the Store per day.Word travels fast in the Lower Levels. A satisfied customer is more than just a sale, they're your best advertisement.
−20	Poor Reviews	100% chance that 1 less random customer will visit your Store per day.All it takes is a few dissatisfied customers, and your Reputation in the Lower Levels takes a hit.
−40	Mistrusted	Customers from the Lower Levels will no longer sell you Contraband items.You are known throughout the Lower Levels as a liability. Those with contraband to sell will take it elsewhere.
−60	Marked	You will be targeted more frequently by thieves. Insurance will now cost 2x.Your poor reputation has put a target on your back. The Lower Levels never forget.
−80	Shunned	All suppliers will refuse to take your calls. Dr. Jackson will no longer visit your Store, except under special circumstances.No one want to associate with you anymore. Fearing for their own reputation.
−100	Mob Justice	A mob from the Lower Levels will attack your Store and lynch you.The people of the Lower Levels have had enough, they'll take matters into their own hands.

Mob Justice at −100 ends the run: an angry mob storms your store, takes everything you own and throws you out of the airlock.

Events

District news moves prices. Events from the game’s list include:

• Gang war and riots: shootouts and looting raise demand for medical supplies, food and weapons.
• Worker strike: food and water supplies are disrupted.
• Food drive from Command and medical aid from Upper Levels charities ease tensions.
• Martial law and Security patrols suppress Revolution and Black Market activity.

Faces of the Lower Levels

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Sources: the game’s localization tables (ClientName, Dialogue, Mechanic, RepPerkTable) and code (StoreReputation.OnItemTraded, ReportedClient and CheckSoldNaloxgone, StoreClientFactionSetup, AugHelper, StoreReputation, SpriteDict), demo build 049-Rev3-L.