A few versions ago I robbed the bank, and if I got out without anyone seeing me, my morality would recover to what it was before I robbed the bank. I updated to 8.9.0 and tried robbing the bank again, but this time when I got out without anyone seeing me, my morality stayed at -144.
Did I do something wrong, or does doing a crime without a witness decrease my morality no matter what? I thought morality was how the NPC viewed you, sort of like a wanted level.
I also noticed that knocking a guard out decreases your morality. I feel that the morality system needs a bit of revamp.
Is morality what my character thinks about herself? It can't be that because under the description of the stat it says "Morality attributes affects the attitude of NPCs towards her." so it is solely how the NPCs view your character. If I knock a guard unconscious, my morality should not go down, since that guard shouldn't know who did it.
The thing with the bank may also just be a bug. When you cross the counter door, the guards get aggravated, and your morality drops. This indicates that the guards already know you have entered the restricted area. This still happens even if you knock down both guards near the counter door.
Have you tried going to a separate map (like the next tile generic town or Elise's) before going back into the bank? It could be that the reset to morality hasn't happened because you weren't considered "gone".
I do have to agree that I don't like the drop to morality when you aren't seen (this simply happens whenever you see the red arrow above Lona) - it really doesn't make sense that you would pull aggro simply for walking somewhere nobody saw you.
I didn't consider trying that. I'll attempt that real quick.
Two things happen when you rob the bank and start escaping: My morality drops to -144, this is the "first drop"(and happens as soon as you walk past the counter door). Once people fully see you, this is when the "second drop" comes, my morality drops to -169. At this point, I consider it unrecoverable.
At -144 the NPCs "don't know I'm there" and don't attack, -169 the NPCs know I'm there and start killing me.
Before I updated I would be able to get past the counter swinging door (where the two guards are), and my morality would recover. Before the update, the only time the "second drop" would happen, is if I left stealth mode.
