The connections you cultivate in Schedule 1 hold significant value, as enhancing your reputation among your acquaintances is essential. A solid reputation enables you to acquire goods at more favorable prices, work with trustworthy dealers, and, most importantly, ensure customer satisfaction. To foster positive relationships, focus on understanding which individuals depend on your business the most.
The first major update to Schedule 1, released on April 11, 2025, introduces a host of new features for players to engage with. While exploring new locations, the fundamental interaction with characters remains unchanged: you can view your relationships with any character directly from your phone. Simply navigate to your “Contacts” app to check your relationship status with anyone.
How To Increase Reputation
Engage More with Familiar Faces
Your reputation improves with each interaction you have with others. Whether it’s suppliers, customers, or dealers in Schedule 1, working collaboratively to sell or purchase goods enhances their perception of you. Your reputation grows gradually as you conduct more transactions to procure high-quality products or sell what they have to grow your enterprise.
The relationships you build with various characters in the game allow for distinct strategies to enhance reputation based on their role:
- Dealers – Place orders, delegate them to various customers, and ensure fair compensation.
- Suppliers – Consistently purchase goods from them at fair rates.
- Customers – Offer high-demand products and consider giving away free samples.
Maintaining a positive relationship with suppliers is fairly straightforward; you only need to make purchases without resorting to theft. It’s crucial to note that suppliers differ from store owners, which means their pricing may vary based on your reputation.
To strengthen both dealer and customer relationships simultaneously, assign customers to specific dealers. Although delivering products to customers yourself also boosts reputation, having a dealer intermediary can streamline the process. Dealers typically expect a 20% commission from sales, so keeping them satisfied is key.
In my experience, maintaining good relations with customers proves the most challenging. You must ensure the products you deliver meet their specific requirements to satisfy their requests. While it can be a demanding task to keep up with customer preferences, giving away free samples of new strains can significantly enhance your standing with them.
How To Decrease Reputation
Commit Theft and Frustrate Potential Clients
While increasing your reputation carries valuable advantages, intentionally lowering it poses various risks. Allowing your reputation to diminish too far can lead to hostile reactions, resulting in aggressive confrontations whenever you encounter those individuals. This behavior can severely restrict access to potential customers, dealers, and suppliers, stifling opportunities for your drug business to thrive.
In general, I’ve discovered that pickpocketing is an effective method for diminishing relationships. Stealing goods from a supplier, robbing a dealer, or taking from a customer tends to provoke hostility faster than almost any other action.
Here are other methods for diminishing your reputation with specific character types:
- Dealers – Fail to pay their commissions or catch them pilfering from you.
- Suppliers – Attempt to haggle excessively low prices or steal their stock.
- Customers – Neglect to deliver their orders personally, ignore them, or fulfill their requests incorrectly.
The most straightforward way to maintain reputation levels is to automate interactions in Schedule 1, ensuring dealers and customers are consistently satisfied. By assigning a dealer to a customer and ensuring the dealer is stocked with products, they can conduct sales even in your absence. This dual approach keeps both parties pleased as long as what’s provided aligns with the customer’s preferences.
How To Maximize Reputation With Everyone
Keep Prices Reasonable and Show a Willingness to Invest
Each character you interact with has a maximum level of friendliness they can achieve over time. Although it requires significant effort to reach these heights, the rewards can be substantial, such as suppliers offering their goods at remarkably low prices and providing increased XP through their interactions, making leveling up in Schedule 1 much easier.
Here are some effective strategies for optimizing your reputation:
- Regularly offer products at fair prices to customers.
- Whenever possible, conduct sales in person at night to strengthen connections.
- Fulfill every customer’s specific order requirements.
- Prevent dealers from pilfering any goods destined for particular customers.
- Allow dealers to earn their commissions from every sale.
- Link separate relationships, so that improving one affects the others.
Besides these strategies, achieving max reputation levels is often just a matter of time. A series of interactions and connections must occur over days, weeks, or even months within the game to elevate your friendship levels with various characters. Matching the right customers with suitable dealers may require some trial and error but will ultimately streamline your efforts.
Once certain dealers, customers, or suppliers reach their peak reputation, they can introduce you to new contacts in different locations. Cultivating a strong reputation will lead you to other valuable figures, so it’s crucial to keep enhancing your standing in Schedule 1 with every encounter.
