The Elite Dangerous ingame reputation system thread

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TriumphANT

TriumphANT
I don't know if it's a bug as such, but it does appear to break immersion. If anything, being Unfriendly for a long period of time could result in demotion, rather than promotion, but then it might be nigh on impossible clear the Unfriendly flag.
My story:
Was Midshipman in my Cobra and visited a USS. Saw "Ship Scan" and glanced at target and saw an Elite Viper. "Viper has deployed hardpoints". I spun round, and hit him with my LASERs. Immediately got a bounty for hitting a System Vessel. I ran. Docked. Paid 200Cr bounty. Noticed "Unfriendly" status.

6 weeks later, and after working out a few tricks, e.g. doing Federation missions with destinations in Independant systems to avoid the "Boom" "Bust" for Federation, I finally got to Neutral. In that time I was promoted three times, so am now Warrant Officer.
6 weeks! And the three promotions show just how hard I worked to only ever, ever be nice to the Federation.
Being Unfriendly is a pain. At first I was getting interdicted and scanned by System Security Vessels twice or three times in every Federation system, but it slowed down as I got closer to Neutral.

To put this in perspective, I've visited 4 or 5 Empire worlds in the whole time I've been playing ED and am Friendly with the Empire. No Empire missions. My rank is still "None". I only flew down to the Empire to cash in a random bounty I picked up in Alliance space, so my whole Empire thing was just killing the odd pirate at Nav Beacons. My total Empire bounties must be less than 250,000Cr. 500,000 at the absolute top.

Maybe I was just unlucky, and my "status" counter was already close to the Unfriendly bit when I hit the Viper, but it seems that it's a bit crazily unbalanced to me. Hard to gauge exactly what's happening when you only have 5 statuses I suppose.
 

SteveLaw

SteveLaw
TriumphANT said:
6 weeks later, and after working out a few tricks, e.g. doing Federation missions with destinations in Independant systems to avoid the "Boom" "Bust" for Federation, I finally got to Neutral. In that time I was promoted three times, so am now Warrant Officer.
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See, I've only been playing the game since 20th March and only really looking at rep the last week or so. Something doesn't really add up with the whole system. I would expect to have had to work on rep (back to neutral at least) longer before I start to rank or at least for ranking to give rep a boost.
 

drkaii

drkaii
Hi guys, I've noticed that sometimes when there are say, 3 missions from 3 factions, and all are available, if you simply accept one of them, one or both of the others change to unavailable because "this faction doesn't trust you enough". Do they get annoyed when I simply ACCEPT missions from other factions?

EDIT: I'm not even sure if it's the accepting of another mission or just the refresh. I've just noticed that when the mission list refreshes (as in you go out and in, not as in the 5 minute mission spawn-refresh), the same thing can happen. I've had this one mission that keeps flipping from available to not available for no real reason..
 
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EUS

EUS
Warzone-Reputation hit?

Background info: I am allied with the Federation, Lt rank.
Last night, I took a mission in a system where the federation has a small footprint. A warzone mission. I go to the warzone, choose the faction that is aligned with federation, kill the required targets, everything is good.
When I go back to the station, and hand in the mission, and collect my combat bonds, much to my surprise, my reputation with the federation shows a red arrow down, both globally, and locally.
Doesn't make sense, I helped the fed with their mission to me, and I get a rep hit.
Does anyone know why this happened?
*Edit*
Also, I found out the hard way that taking a D-rated trading Python in a high intensity warzone is perhaps not the best idea.
For the first time ever, I had to use the reboot.
 
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kris44dad

kris44dad
Any particular ideas for reputation gain?

The federation is hostile. Seems like once that happens, it's a long way back. Anybody know which missions give you the most bang for your reputation gain buck? Does galactic location make any difference? Would I gain more rep doing missions closer to Sol, for example? The military rank missions (whatever they're called...)?

I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't give up and gain favor with one of the other factions instead.
 

kris44dad

kris44dad
I was hoping that someone would know what specific missions within the gift category did the most good, if there is a difference.
 

Krow

Krow
Personally when trying to gain faction I always like to keep it simple and legal and stick to the Delivery or Food shortage ones.
Any combat or illegal contracts can tend to start swinging rep again.
 

hems303

hems303
kris44dad said:
The federation is hostile. Seems like once that happens, it's a long way back. Anybody know which missions give you the most bang for your reputation gain buck? Does galactic location make any difference? Would I gain more rep doing missions closer to Sol, for example? The military rank missions (whatever they're called...)?

I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't give up and gain favor with one of the other factions instead.
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Hi kris44dad
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I had the same prob, I posted (a bit of a ramble, soz) my way back to good rep with the Fed's. Here it is for what it's worth (a grind whichever way you look at it. But when I finished I was allied to many Fed factions and a Lt. Commander to boot, with about 6-7 Fed system permits!):
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=129402&highlight=stutus
 

kris44dad

kris44dad
don't you have to get caught?

Krow said:
Personally when trying to gain faction I always like to keep it simple and legal and stick to the Delivery or Food shortage ones.
Any combat or illegal contracts can tend to start swinging rep again.
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I thought the illegal missions only hurt you if you got caught. I mean, I grabbed black boxes and rebel transmissions while I was trading from system to system, but when I got caught, I always paid my fines. Are you guys saying it doesn't matter if you get caught or not? It still hurts you in the end?
 

Backelaer

Backelaer
Nah, I do those missions too on a regular basis, as long as you don't get caught theres nothing to worry about. I believe Krow was talking about the missions were you have to killx amount of traders or pirates. Not sure though..
 

MacKerris

MacKerris
This can make it a touch more difficult. But, find a station with both Federation and non Federation factions. Then choose to do missions for the Fed factions only. Many times when you please one faction you displease another. So it's best to anger someone else. I hope that makes some sense.
 
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kris44dad

kris44dad
Sometimes I think the rep system is bugged.

I go to an independent station (Zaragas->Morin Hub). Morin shows up red, I don't think it should be red, and it won't let me dock. Even though there is no traffic, I try solo mode. Lo and behold, not only can I dock, but I am completely neutral with the controlling sub faction on the station (as I believe I should be in open play).

At least with other MMOs you have some kind of indicator where you are on the rep scale and a defined means to work to change your status. The more I see, the more I convinced that it's much too arbitrary.

Update: I land at Morin Hub in solo mode and reenter the game in open play. My rep with Morin Hub is now reset to neutral as it should be. You definitely introduced some bugs with the last update.
 
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Acaelus Thorn

Acaelus Thorn
Does Turning in Exploration Data improve Reputation?

From what I read in the guide section and from some other's people's posts I believe that I understand this correctly, but I want to make sure. I just got back from a 50k round trip exploration trip. I want to work toward getting the Clipper and for that I need Rank. The best way to earn Rank is by building rep with many smaller factions that are loyal to the Empire I believe. So the best way for me to get a good start is to spread out the exploration data that I turn in to several different smaller factions that are loyal to the Empire. Am I understanding this correctly?
 

DidierDrbois

DidierDrbois
That's my understanding as well. Wish I knew before I dumped everything on one station / faction.

Careful when flying about with data though. Things can go horribly wrong if you don't submit-run.
 

LordKee

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Sure does increase reputation and no need to spread it around. I went all the way to allied with alliance from two trips (150 million or so).

edit: and now that I actually read what it said in OP...no idea regarding empire rank and reputation.
 
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Jaiotu

Jaiotu
Good question. I'm a bit confused on this one also. When you sell the data are you selling to the local faction or to some sort of "Cartographers Guild"? The option in the Services menu is for "Universal Cartographics" by which "Universal" could imply some kind of union or other singular organization that is responsible for the data. However, selling nearby data to a system doesn't work which would imply that the data is stored local at the station and thereby purchased by the local faction (hence they don't need local data because they have all of that). Anybody have a definite answer?
 
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