Game Mechanics: kelethin faction not raising?

[astarothel]

race/deity/class details.

This is what I remember from classic, p1999 does have some specific issues with faction tables that will hopefully get sorted out.

Your modifiers might be such that you can never increase your reputation further. Classic cap was +/- 2000 I believe, and each of those modifiers can affect values in the hundreds. If you had -800 combined total from these, your max effective value would be 1200.

Reputation from kills can cap out at certain base values (and may not be giving the appropriate messages on p1999). So say mob kills from Crushbone stopped giving rep at +499 (Amiable) base, but your race/deity/class penalties were -600, you would not be able to increase effective rep from kills any more, and you'd be stuck at -101 (Dubiously). The only way to progress past some of these points is by quest turnins.