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Quantum Enigma

Quantum Enigma
Questions about influence and reputation

I want to gain reputation and increase the influence of faction A. And reduce influence of faction B.

1) Does accepting and failing missions for B reduce their influence?

2) Does selling items on the blackmarket affect reputation? Does it affect influence?

3) Will selling illegal slaves to faction B (on the BM) cause a slave revolt or negatively impact them? (would be funny)

4) Will shooting down faction B ships reduce their influence?

5) Does the fact the this system is federation aligned, and i am unfriendly with federation, mean it is harder for me to affect influence?


If you know any of this stuff do please tell.. Cheers!
 

kungfubiker

K
as ive found it so far ( and im barely scratching the surface of the political side lol) to answer some of your quieries....

1) no this decreases your rating with all parties to the point of unfriendly in that system if you persist....along with fines/bounty on you too
2) not that i have noticed on both counts but selling slaves to your supported faction can lead to them having reduced influence
3) would be funny indeed lol....but no i dont think so ( bit early in game time to tell i think)
4) not entirely sure but possibly and only if they are wanted in that system......killing "clean" pilots/npc's usually results in a bounty on your head lol
5) ive found being unfriendly makes it a verrrry long job to affect influence within that system

best way to increase influence for your chosen faction is do all the trade bb missions for that faction, the commodity types and the weapons type, also the courier missions....spread the word on how awesome your faction is.....its worked for me so far as im allied with my Home station and as a result of my running about im at least friendly in all neighbouring systems and quite a few all the way over by Alioth (150ly away!)

hope that helps

Cmdr Ethan Fortune
 

Quantum Enigma

Quantum Enigma
Ah thanks for that.

I've been doing missions for my faction all morning but their influence hasn't budged, i guess because the empire is unfriendly to me. My faction is independent though and they have now become friendly.
I only accepted and rejected one mission from faction B so that was lucky - felt a bit cheesy doing that to reduce influence. And i've sold quite a few slaves to the my faction (only around 50) so will have to stop doing that lol.

I think i'm gonna have to work on getting the Feds to like me again. Considering i'm still pretty new and only flying an Adder (love that ship) I'm probably getting ahead of myself trying to engineer the systems politics lols.

Cheers for the answers :)
 

Quineloe

Quineloe
There are a few advantages

I'm told there are discounts for refuel and repair at the station. This may be correct, from my experience. Refuel would be very easy to verify as well.
Of course there's better missions as well.
 

shroder300

shroder300
reputation suggestions

In short the reputation system needs work. I would suggest:

1. There needs to be a log of activity to see what you did right or wrong in the last couple days.
2. There needs to be more information on where you stand with any faction. A bar would be nice but actual numbers would be even better.
3. The number of reputation ranks is fine. It can stay the same.

I find the reputation system a little complicated. Providing us with more information would improve that greatly. One little blue or red arrow is not enough.
 

Sherlock161

S
Is there any way how to gain reputation and have fun?

Because doing quest is so boring, it reminds me stupid MMORPG quests. I just can't do any more quest, I had enough and still I have neutral reputation because I was caught with some stolen cargo and the whole progress is gone, is this suppose to be fun?
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
you get rep just for regular trade with single station, i am now allied with a station i was only friendly with as i'm friendly with the federation and i only arrived there yesterday. i have not done one mission for any factions either too or from that system.
 

B.tolsma

B
I've become friendly with the federation in general through bounty hunting.
And I'm pretty sure you can get rep for trading, fighting on their side in warzones, collection exploration data for them etc.
 

PEScott

P
Reputation mechanics question

I've been working in the empire since E:D went live and am friendly overall. I'm allied with some of the factions within 20 lyrs or so of Achenar and friendly with others. Here's the question though... does anyone know how status with individual factions translates to your relationship with the Empire (or Federation or Alliance) as a whole?

For example, since I'm already allied with Alacagui Holdings, am I wasting my time and money doing reputation gain mission for them since I'm maxed out or do the brownie points continue to stack up towards the Empire total?

It would be interesting to know - or for the devs to say that's the kind of question about game mechanics that they want us to be in the dark about (in which case fair enough).

Thanks

P.S. Have really noticed the jump in cmdrs I'm coming across - had some fun conversations since 1.04!
 

bracad

B
Reputation

I have a problem understanding reputation. I have only done missions for Alliance orinentated party but my rep is just declining. One time I forgot to pay a fine, although you have 24 hours to pay it, my rep went to hostile. No matter what I do my rep is just going down. Why is that?

And btw, can someone explain influence? Different parties have different influence. Does it mean how they stand with Alliance or Federation or....?
 

Skip Intro

Skip Intro
I would love to know how to get my rep with the Feds up from unfriendly. I think I lost rep by having four outstanding missions expire during the "Great Server ClusterFunk" of 2015 but even after doing a dozen missions for Fed factions, my rep remains unfriendly, which makes it difficult to do some missions as "this faction does not trust you enough" is a constant refrain.
 

smsKONG

smsKONG
Influence is the amount of control the faction has in a system.

In terms of losing alliance rep while doing missions - I've had similar issues when doing the haulage runs (take x units of cargo to system y) - repdrop on completion. ..

Probably a bug; just avoid those mission types for alliance for now. All other missions I took for them worked as expected
 

Feldspar

Feldspar
Reputation will go down if you accrue fines, blow up their ships, fail or discard missions or generally do something against them. I can't tell what you have specifically done to lose rep, but my guess would be a combination of those.

Influence measures how much of the system they control, changes in influence brings about civil wars, expansion and other shenanegans, allegedly.
 

bracad

B
I had reputation decline even if I take a mission from a party that's pro-Alliance but the recepient is some other fraction (Independent or Fed). I think that's just bad.

As I said, my rep went down to hostile just because I didn't pay the fine and left the station. You have 24 hrs to pay it. I did it after 5 minutes on another station, but my rep was done forever. I am hostile now in Alliance and it's alomst impossible to fix it. Needless to say that I am unfriendly in Fed, although I didn't do ANYTHING wrong.

My only way out is to trade and find Empire system somewhere.... start from scratch and avoid Alliance and Fed systems (that are about 99% of galaxy)
 

Tuzmaal

Tuzmaal
Conflict/Combat sites and Reputation...

Do they add positve/negative rep on you CMDR depending on what side you play ?
 

TargetLost

T
If you just fight there for bonds and don't do missions than no
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edit to add: I wonder since a longer time if my combat fighting has any meaning to the story since I don't do missions.
 
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