Patch Notes: A fairer law

The watch

The watch no longer hunts a bad name out of thin air. Before, a low standing with the law brought guards after you every couple of minutes in town, even with nobody around. Now a guard has to actually see you. If you are known to the watch (a poor standing in that region, or banished from it), a guard who spots you stops you: pay a fine on the spot, come quietly to court, or refuse and be chased. After a stop the watch leaves you be for a while, and after you answer for it (a fine, a sentence, an acquittal) you get a day's grace.
The watch waits for a fight to end. A guard no longer stops you in the middle of a fight or a duel.
Invisibility hides you from the watch, just as it hides your crimes from witnesses.
Surrendering always works - unless you killed one of the watch during that chase.
A crime is charged once. Running from one group of guards and meeting another no longer charges you for the same crime twice.
Dying online ends the chase. You wake up no longer wanted, but anything already charged against your name stays in full. Only serving a sentence gives any of it back.

Serving your sentence pays your debt. Paying a fine or serving time now gives back what the arrest cost your standing. Assault, murder and treason still leave half of it as a lasting mark. Winning your case in court clears it all.
A good name no longer makes fines dearer.
Fixed: a crime committed while fleeing the watch could reach the court without ever being charged. Its sentence then raised your standing.

Only murder and treason can get you banished, and it no longer lasts forever: it lifts after 30 days, or you can buy a pardon at a temple in that region (the watch does not enter temples).
Online, a banishment keeps the realm's calendar. A computer clock set wrong can no longer end it early.

A bad name heals faster. A negative standing, with the law or a guild, recovers a point every week instead of every 112 days.
Temples take penance. Speak to a temple's donation priest in the region: for a price that rises each time, the temple restores five points of your standing with that region's law.
Paying the temple ends the conversation. After a pardon or a penance, the priest no longer goes straight on to the donation box, where one more key press gave away another 1,000 gold.
Bounty contracts help. Finishing one improves your standing with that region's law.

The Standing page shows the law of every region that knows your name - how it sees you, and what it will cost you (a stop's fine, or a pardon's price and the days left on a banishment).
Every change is announced. When a crime, a sentence, a penance, a contract or a raid's defence changes your standing, a line says so.

Guilds put you on probation before they expel you. Falling below zero standing gets you a warning and time to mend it; you are only expelled if you are still on probation and have fallen well below zero at your next review.

REP1-REP6 + AUDIT REP: the law, much better and still punishing by @Lattymoy in #464

Full Changelog: app-v0.1.4963...app-v0.1.4970