I was unfriendly with Feds and trying to boost my rep. I went into a fed station and sold 1 trade data on the black market. Next thing I know I am Hostile to Feds and everyone is shooting me. Is this a bug or is there someway I can clear the hostile? All my other ships are in Fed stations or it appears I am done for. Is this a bug, working as intended? Please help I am stuck.
Sell 1 item on the black market turns you hostile? Did I miss something
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The reputation is based on numbers. If you were already on a tipping point between the unfriendly and hostile, any small action would have done the same thing.
But if black market lowers your rep I can't answer, as I haven't smuggled for some time, so changes could have happened. It doesn't make much sense, though. Maybe you were scanned and fined? That would be a reason for losing rep.
But if black market lowers your rep I can't answer, as I haven't smuggled for some time, so changes could have happened. It doesn't make much sense, though. Maybe you were scanned and fined? That would be a reason for losing rep.
Nope, smuggling DOES hurt rep. Stupid decision but there you go.
to be fair - a smuggler tends to smuggle to make money. i suspect there are few who do it to fulfill some vendetta. (IRL)
so on that note - a smuggler doesn't really care how is rep stands. i imagine one would prefer not to be shot at but that's about were the line starts and ends.
from a fiction standpoit, though - it doesn't make a ton of sense that your rep drops if they supposedly don't know you sold anything. faction influence dropping, sure...but if they know enough to like you less it stands to reason they should know enough to arrest you.
i guess you could spin the fiction so that it's more like probihition rumrunners...everybody knows who's doing it - but they just can't arrest you without backlash of some kind - legal or social.
whatever.
i kind of like it. it means only smugglers should smuggle. it's not a casual kind of activity
makes it a little more scary for players to break the law unless they've already chosen to be law breakers.
Indeed absoluetly lame programming behind this. As if the black market "guys and gals" calls up the fed and tells them you were there and traded. So the black market and the feds are working togheter then? Idk but too much in this game dont make sense or is half heartedly created. And now they're gonna squeese this game to the CON-soles. Gives me the complete cringes and honestly, i dont care where this game is going anymore.