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I only very recently discovered this game, so my experimentation is still fairly limited. However, I would imagine that there would be some sort of threshold on losing or gaining respect. Like once an area gets to the lowest respect possible, it doesn’t really make much sense to be able to lower it even further, when you don’t get any extra scenes or behavior from the inhabitants. I mean, there can only be a finite amount of variations that the developer wrote based on the respect level. He probably didn’t want people to feel like they were wasting effort by continuously lowering or raising respect more and more when there was nothing new for them to unlock after reaching the threshold.