So, I've noticed since obtaining the NCR Ranger Combat Veteran whatnot and so forth armor from the Ranger Safehouse that even though I'm normally idolized by the NCR, whenever I wear their gear and am "disguised" as an NCR trooper I suddenly go down to having Neutral rep with them.

Is that supposed to happen? Doesn't make sense to me.

Faction armor sets your rep to neutral so long as it is equipped.

Because your just a regular NCR guy not the legendary heroic Courier.
When your in the veteran ranger armor a few of the guys at the various camps do have different dialog as if you were one of those rangers especially during the quest. Return to Sender.

I think that if you have it on it should be classed as a "Soldier"
But yeah I guess because you are a normal soldier not the Iconic Hero etc etc they will not think of you being special with that armor on.

The Legion recruits still insult you even when wearing a Centurion's armour, which can get quite weird. IMO, this actually prevents us from roleplaying as a member of the NCR or Caesar's Legion, since we can't get on their good side and wear their armour at the same time. (Unless we never unequip the faction armour)

Granted, we don't ever become a member of either faction, but I'd like to be able to imagine myself as one of them, but still be in good standing with them and be vilified by their enemies. Maybe the armour in the safehouses could be patched so that they are not counted as faction armour, so we can wear them as "uniforms" and not as disguises.

Agreed.

I envy PC folks for their abilities to modify armors and whatnot for little annoyances like this.

Some of the Ranger casual garb is not faction aligned. My Idiot/Savant Cowgirl has been wearing ranger neckerchief gear lately. She actually thinks she's a real Ranger. (BTW, if you haven't played a 1 intelligence character yet, you gotta go to Helios One and battle wits with Fantastic. Oh. My. God. funny).

On another note, I haven't tried this yet, but if you are wearing, say, NCR Mantle armor, and your rep is set to neutral, and you do a few things to gain rep, does your rep, while wearing the armor, go up? I know that I snuck into the Fort once while vilified by the Legion while wearing Legion disguise and once I started killing the football team, I kept getting the pop-ups about my rep going down from neutral until I was vilified again, but while wearing the disguise. Do you guys think this works in reverse? Has anyone tried it?

-Gunny out.