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Ashnak

Ashnak
Twisten Spinn said:
Navigational challenges?
It's not closed for gameplay purposes. :D

I want to get a bit from the bubble, pick a spot near a nebula, get some money, build some ships, and try different gameplay mining and illegal stuff maybe. I may think about credits per hour but it doesn't control my gameplay. I just explore because Road to Riches is an easy way to learn the game and make money. I have dual Virplis so I really want to pew pew a bit but am clueless as to how to transition into doing that without ruining my reputation all over the universe so I'm holding off for now. :)
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Dual Virpils? A person of taste ;).

R2R is a nice way of earning some pocket money when you start out - but you won't find any unexplored systems where you can get a first discovered, first scanned or - if you play Odyssey - a first footfall. Because the R2R sites have to rely on systems that have been previously discovered. On the other hand, if you take one of the obvious paths to an obvious feature (like a nebula), you're also unlikely to encounter any virgin systems.
This map shows you the systems that have been travelled by CMDRs (and reported/upload to EDDN):
visited-systems-indexedheatmap.jpg
(from EDASTRO)
If you look closely (ok, maybe not on this static image), you will also see Col 70 and other locked regions, as well as other... features.

Reputation all over the Galaxy - that's hard to do. For most cases, your reputation is only interesting to the local gang. Kill a few dozen cops in one system, move over a few systems to the side, and you're (almost) a clean (or even cherished) citizen again.
Reputation is the keyword here: you have a reputation with every minor faction in the Galaxy. All 20,000 (or somesuch) of them. Depending on what you do, you can improve or decrease your reputation. The better your reputation is with one group, the better (and better paying) the missions they will offer you become.
In adition, you also have a reputation with the three superpowers - Federation, Empire and Alliance. Gaining reputation with the Federation or Empire (or both, that's not exclusive) will give you (gradually) access to their core worlds (permits) and ships.
If you do something bad and get caught (usually), you will incur a fine or a bounty. A fine is no big deal, you can just pay it off at any starport that is operated by the faction that gave you the fine, or at any Interstellar Factor for a small service charge. A bounty is a bit more severe - with a bounty on you (Odyssey) or your ship (Horizons), anyone discovering that bounty (after a scan) within the jurisdiction of the bounty issuer can legally kill you. If that happens to be the the cops circling a station, the station will join in - and those guns hurt. Paing off a bounty is better done at an Interstellar Factor - if you pay it off at the station's office, you can only turn yourself in, which includes a free trip to the nearest detention facility. Depending on where you are, "nearest" is flexible. Very flexible. More than one player has been sent to detention a few hundred ly away while operating their local combat boat with a negligible jump range...
If, in the course of criminal career, you kill (NPC or CMDR) without a reason (like them being wanted), you also gain Notoriety. That one's a bit nastier - while you're notorious, you can't get rid of any bounties or fines. So either flaunt it, or move your area of operations a few systems off where they don't know you and don't care about your criminal record in that other system.
 
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