So a little background first.
I've been engaged in powerplay for the last few weeks and have become hostile in Federation space...and as I understand it it's just a powerplay thing meaning that the super power hates me, not specific local factions. Anyway, my latest activity whilst I wait for the weekly cycle to complete is to assassinate politicians - which is getting some bounties although 0 notoriety.
I took a mission last night to transport some passengers to a neighbouring system. I did my usual turbo towards the station as soon as I dropped out of SC. As I reached 7.5Km, I requested to dock.... then heard the station announcement that I wasn't welcomed. Before I knew it (less than 2 seconds) my cutter was blown to pieces...34M cr rebuy.
Not annoyed by the rebuy (as that's the game and quite an exciting change from the mundane) I decided to investigate further. I swapped for a cheaper rebuy (iCourier) and headed over to an outpost controlled by the same local faction as the previous star base. This time upon targeting the station (red target lock) the station refused landing permission and a nervous flyby resulted in the station immediately opening fire....directly hitting the shield generator and by-passing the shields (a message to state this direct damage was sent to my ship as well). My lower right UI was saying HOSTILE (but then again this is not unusual because of the powerplay thing).
Challenge accepted!
I was determined to land at one of these places and regain rep with the controlling faction. I found a system not controlled by the [hostile] faction but they are present. This, to me, was the perfect place to land and accept missions ........ However upon reaching the outpost, and although the target lock is green, there is no option to request dock.
Has anyone else seen this issue? As far as I can see, there is no reason not to let me dock.
EDIT: Upon menu logging, the issue has resolved itself.
However, anyone got a smart idea as to how to gain favour with this local faction? The mission board has a reputation requirement and I can't land at faction owned stations to hand in bonds, planetary discoveries, etc either.
I've been engaged in powerplay for the last few weeks and have become hostile in Federation space...and as I understand it it's just a powerplay thing meaning that the super power hates me, not specific local factions. Anyway, my latest activity whilst I wait for the weekly cycle to complete is to assassinate politicians - which is getting some bounties although 0 notoriety.
I took a mission last night to transport some passengers to a neighbouring system. I did my usual turbo towards the station as soon as I dropped out of SC. As I reached 7.5Km, I requested to dock.... then heard the station announcement that I wasn't welcomed. Before I knew it (less than 2 seconds) my cutter was blown to pieces...34M cr rebuy.
Not annoyed by the rebuy (as that's the game and quite an exciting change from the mundane) I decided to investigate further. I swapped for a cheaper rebuy (iCourier) and headed over to an outpost controlled by the same local faction as the previous star base. This time upon targeting the station (red target lock) the station refused landing permission and a nervous flyby resulted in the station immediately opening fire....directly hitting the shield generator and by-passing the shields (a message to state this direct damage was sent to my ship as well). My lower right UI was saying HOSTILE (but then again this is not unusual because of the powerplay thing).
Challenge accepted!
I was determined to land at one of these places and regain rep with the controlling faction. I found a system not controlled by the [hostile] faction but they are present. This, to me, was the perfect place to land and accept missions ........ However upon reaching the outpost, and although the target lock is green, there is no option to request dock.
Has anyone else seen this issue? As far as I can see, there is no reason not to let me dock.
EDIT: Upon menu logging, the issue has resolved itself.
However, anyone got a smart idea as to how to gain favour with this local faction? The mission board has a reputation requirement and I can't land at faction owned stations to hand in bonds, planetary discoveries, etc either.
