It seems like this "info" skill was enacted to bring us closer to realism. I agree, it's a good way to make people work for stats, but I have a little trouble with it.

Let's take... Lucretia_Borgia for example. If I'm walking through Las Vegas, and Lucretia walks past me, with her army of 300,000 bodyguards, why wouldn't I be able to see her? Why don't BGs take away from your stealth?

It seems like people can have tons and tons of BGs to protect themselves, which I feel needs to have some type of counter-reaction. The more BGs they purchase, the easier they are to see? This seems to be the only realistic way of having 50+ BGs in this game. Because you can't honestly think someone is sneaking around with 50 BGs behind them, and you can't see them?

Just a thought.

I'll take the opposite side of this, if someone had 50 bodyguards surrounding them HOW COULD YOU SEE THEM?

You couldn't and you wouldn't. You might know someone is there, but you wouldn't know who

Maybe on the locals this could show as 'someone' and maybe you could add peoples status on the locals like online or offline?

My own interpretation of the realism aspect behind this is that the higher up and protected someone is, the less likely they are to be doing the grunt work paving the streets. To use the same example, why would Lucretia_Borgia, esteemed Godmother of Las Vegas, be walking shoulder to shoulder with a nobody like me? Extremely unlikely that I'd ever bump into someone that high up in the Mafia unless they wanted me to. This is a connected, one of the most connected, mobsters in our world, would Joe Nobody be able to walk up close to her?

Tommy - I think if you pay for the toolbar the locals list the names of those who are active in bold.