We've already gone far enough into character creation that i really just cant do that anymore. that said, every single one in this thread kind of assumes that prizes and renown have to stay in the system, but personally i think that the core ideas works without the reputation/renown system, and I guess I'll try it.

PS: on an off tangent, i let my players pitch in as to what non-human races the setting would have, since in my setting document i purposefully left out all non-human races, and two of the players REALLY wanted catfolk. During character creation i didn't really touch this and let them pick human talents instead, but if someone has written up houserules for catfolk im interested.

P.P.S: also, there is no decent swashbuckly type base class, anybody have something for that as well?

Sigh, its not reputation as a concept itself that is the main problem, the main problem is that reputation is crunchy, adds crunch to an already VERY crunch-heavy system, and my players are in general pretty new to roleplaying, and i do not want to scare them away, in fact, during character creation two days back there were signs of throwing in the towel.
I want to run the system because i like the core mechanics and interactions, and  i just hope i can do without reputation, and run it as more of a classical style campaign

Thanks for the tips guys. sorry for using  the LFQW acronym, just been lurking rpg.net too much lately (also where i first heard about fantasy craft.

Problem is a bit bigger than the aestethic of reputation. I switched groups recently, and this is my first time GM:ing for this particular group, and i know that at least one player is dyslexic, and i might have to do a lot of ruleswise handholding to make this work, which i probably will, since i like the basics, but it might just be too much crunch. and fantasycraft is already very crunchy. They'll obviously be getting lots of stuff though

So, I'm about to kick off a high seas exploration campaign in a homebrewed setting, and with dnd 3.5/pathfinder/4.0 having been my most used systems before, but me being extremely fed up with various aspects of them, i bought fantasy craft.
I really love the way the mechanics come together with action dice, near removal of LFQW, most of the skills (blend/notice come off as a bit iffy), and removal of the front-loadedness of classes and npc generation. I do have one big reservation though, and that is the reputation system.

Essentially, i play nowadays in a group where metagamey abstract rules really dont fly (action dice will though). Also, this campaign being a high seas exploration kind of thing, holdings and contacts dont really work for me, though i do understand the appeal would my campaign be different. Stuff like prices and random treasure generation would also be a major turn off for my players, and this is a BIG issue.

I've been considering just ad-hoccing it and replacing reputation specific class features and feats on a case by case basis, and prerolling all treasure, but in case someone has something to share about removing reputation ill definitely listen.