Fame or Infamy

[Dragour]

Do people love you, worship you as a great hero... or do they despise you, fear you and your very name sends chills down people's spines...

Which do you most commonly fall under? Fame or Infamy?

[nyk45]

I usually go for the Dark Brotherhood early on, so yeah...

[Leilah]

Infamy. I can never use an altar in a chapel, guards barely speak to me, and so on.

[Dragour]

Infamy. I can never use an altar in a chapel, guards barely speak to me, and so on.

You do know you're chosing which one you are most often? You chose infamy yet stated points as to why you wouldn't be infamous...

[scribbane]

i almost always become famous. I generally play a good guy, thus usually do good things, and thus usually gain fame points.

[Lorkmir]

i almost always become famous. I generally play a good guy, thus usually do good things, and thus usually gain fame points.

You have been awarded the blessings of St.Arvin!

I am always a good guy so I become famous quickly.

[PhantomKyro]

I've done both, and I sort of like Fame better. People tend to be nicer. I'm always getting weird faces when I need to sell some stuff.

[SwedishBerzerker]

I'm a "hero", but I also do the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood because those guilds are also good in another sense. Thieves Guild help the poor and Dark Brotherhood helps with revenges and such. But I delete my Infamy by doing the Pilgrimage. So I've got to say I'm a "Fame-guy", because I earn the Infamy in a way that's as good as possible, and then get rid of it.

[Loserbumo]

I got like 34fame and 138 infamy soooo

[Yaije]

I don't know... I like having obcenely high stats in boththough i tend to get infamy quite a bit since i hate the townfolk.

I get 1 infamy and they go about saying "you're a sinner like the rest of us" makes me want to beat their face in with... with a.... with a rat

[m@nyt1mes]

Fame, it just kind of happens
[offtopic]i know you can indefinately get infamy, is the same true of fame?[/offtopic]

[Dragour]

Fame, it just kind of happens
[offtopic]i know you can indefinately get infamy, is the same true of fame?[/offtopic]

Fame only goes up- nothing brings it down
Infamy goes up and down, so it's more controlable

Why hasn't many people chosen Infamy!? Sure people hate you more but that adds to the coolness of being a Death Knight or Dark Knight, you are feared as being a powerful person..

[SwedishBerzerker]

Fame, it just kind of happens
[offtopic]i know you can indefinately get infamy, is the same true of fame?[/offtopic]

Fame only goes up- nothing brings it down
Infamy goes up and down, so it's more controlable

Why hasn't many people chosen Infamy!? Sure people hate you more but that adds to the coolness of being a Death Knight or Dark Knight, you are feared as being a powerful person..

Probably because it lowers your disposition towards so many people.

[Cloud_Nine]

Why hasn't many people chosen Infamy!? Sure people hate you more but that adds to the coolness of being a Death Knight or Dark Knight, you are feared as being a powerful person..

People fear my name and it sends chills down their spines' because im so powerful, but they love me i honestly dont think the fame/infamy makes a difference in Oblivion, which disappoints me, i wish the good/evil aspect of your choices had a more active role in the gameplay and a more active effect on the way things turn out throughout the whole game, but i usually play as the famous person feared and respected by all

[m@nyt1mes]

neither of those helped me. fame as i understand, can only go up from finishing quests/closing oblivion gates, infamy can be increased by crime, so it seems like fame has a preset lmit, infamy can continually increase, is this true?

[Dragour]

neither of those helped me. fame as i understand, can only go up from finishing quests/closing oblivion gates, infamy can be increased by crime, so it seems like fame has a preset lmit, infamy can continually increase, is this true?

Fame only goes up-so yes there would be a limit to it for I don't know of any little methods of increasing fame and infamy can rise and fall as much as you like, by doing the KotN you can reset it to 0, by doing evil quests or doing good quests but finishing them evily- and doing mass crimes gain you infamy

[SwedishBerzerker]

by doing the KotN you can reset it to 0

Actually you only have to do Pilgrimage, the first quest in KOTN. I just wanted to add it because I first thought you had to do the entire KOTN because someone mentioned it that way.

[Dragour]

by doing the KotN you can reset it to 0

Actually you only have to do Pilgrimage, the first quest in KOTN. I just wanted to add it because I first thought you had to do the entire KOTN because someone mentioned it that way.

Well I meant by having the KotN you are capable of reseting your infamy to 0.. just tried to phrase it in a way that I didn't need to post a "Spoiler" tab

[SwedishBerzerker]

by doing the KotN you can reset it to 0

Actually you only have to do Pilgrimage, the first quest in KOTN. I just wanted to add it because I first thought you had to do the entire KOTN because someone mentioned it that way.

Well I meant by having the KotN you are capable of reseting your infamy to 0.. just tried to phrase it in a way that I didn't need to post a "Spoiler" tab

It isn't much of a spoiler, is it? The name of the first quest doesn't reveal much of what's going to happen. Pretty much nothing. But I understand, man.

[Newyn]

Infamy, even though there's no practical reason why someone would be an infamous reject, I usually roleplay as an assassin or a psychopath, so there's nothing I can do about it.

[Kaelan Corvinus]

I don't know... I like having obcenely high stats in boththough i tend to get infamy quite a bit since i hate the townfolk.

I get 1 infamy and they go about saying "you're a sinner like the rest of us" makes me want to beat their face in with... with a.... with a rat

Wow. Ummmm....yeah.

I have a tendency to gain Infamy by accident because of the AI's stupidity in battle.

Example: The Kvatch Battle

Guard: Oh look! There's the Hero swinging his sword at a Clanfear like a woodchipper. I'll go help him by jumping in front of his sword and attacking the Clanfear myself!!!

[m@nyt1mes]

I don't know... I like having obcenely high stats in boththough i tend to get infamy quite a bit since i hate the townfolk.

I get 1 infamy and they go about saying "you're a sinner like the rest of us" makes me want to beat their face in with... with a.... with a rat

Wow. Ummmm....yeah.

I have a tendency to gain Infamy by accident because of the AI's stupidity in battle.

Example: The Kvatch Battle

Guard: Oh look! There's the Hero swinging his sword at a Clanfear like a woodchipper. I'll go help him by jumping in front of his sword and attacking the Clanfear myself!!!

i am curious about this all too common issue. obviously people have hit allies, but has anyone ever been hit accidentally by an ally? this could be resolved i think by slowing down a bit. not slashing at them like a wood chipper, but take some time, coordinate with allies.

[Kaelan Corvinus]

I don't know... I like having obcenely high stats in boththough i tend to get infamy quite a bit since i hate the townfolk.

I get 1 infamy and they go about saying "you're a sinner like the rest of us" makes me want to beat their face in with... with a.... with a rat

Wow. Ummmm....yeah.

I have a tendency to gain Infamy by accident because of the AI's stupidity in battle.

Example: The Kvatch Battle

Guard: Oh look! There's the Hero swinging his sword at a Clanfear like a woodchipper. I'll go help him by jumping in front of his sword and attacking the Clanfear myself!!!

i am curious about this all too common issue. obviously people have hit allies, but has anyone ever been hit accidentally by an ally? this could be resolved i think by slowing down a bit. not slashing at them like a wood chipper, but take some time, coordinate with allies.

This idea would work if your allies would slow down, as well, but unfortunately, the Stupid AI of NPCs in the game doesn't allow them to do anything but a Braveheart charge into battle, which at higher levels of the game, gets them killed.

[shadow_of_sithis]

i worship sithis and only sithis! the name hazmat is the name of the dark lord's Great listener!

My khajiit is despised and feared throughout cyrodiil! But in SI he is loved and preaised! but infammy i like better