i haven't interacted with genia much, but i dont think i'd want to abuse a bug to get it up to where it should be anyways. i'm not even sure if that bug would work since, again, my reputation is capped at 248. i can't go above that.
i want to mostly play the game as the developer intended, i dont really want to cheat in the eccessive high and low numbers until im mostly finished the game, but since what i'm dealing with is most likely a bug, i'll have to manually set my reputation once i get to a certain point if i cant fix it soon. i just wanted to avoid having to do that.
EDIT: i went into the save editor anyways to take a look. It seems like Variable#15 is what decides your Reputation cap. i changed it to 1000 and my reputation increased when i helped a student with a food request, so i'm glad it was relatively easy to fix. i wonder what could have happened to make it like that though??