Understanding trader reputation

[Gator]

So my understanding with trader reputation is as follows.

1 You complete missions for them, you gain rep. Finishing missions for one and gaining rep causes you to lose rep for another.
2 UICS is basically the only one that really matters right now, 80% of the good ♥♥♥♥ is locked behind this trader. Almost all the good guns for sure.

What I do not know and would like to.

1 Do you gain/lose the same amount of rep per mission?
2 Do you lose rep for doing the challenges?
3 Basically, is it possible to rank them all up once with proper mission selection?

[boris.glevrk]

IIRC I read somewhere that challenges "cannot be failed" and can be completed over multiple sessions so you can't lose rep for challenges.

[Black Sand Cattle Co.]

I've been picking 3 challenges to track for each faction along with doing actual raids. Seems to level up equal but i'd like it to where your rep stays up instead of one or two losing a ton cause you chose to do a few missions for just one.

[screamingcrane]

I would say run VLF and UICS and you`ll have all the good gear since you can pretty much max two factions. I havn`t tried doing all three but I think you could make them all tier 3 consistently, but I don`t think you can max them all to tier 4.

[boris.glevrk]

So can anyone answer? are you indeed impossible to fail challenges? (and thus if you only take challenges you can't lose reputation)?

[screamingcrane]

You can`t lose challenges, The only one I wasn`t sure about was the survive one and I think you can`t fail that either.

[RitterZero]

It's not that hard to get most of the rep with the factions. I've got Tier 4 with VLF and UCIS and Tier 3 with IGC. Just do challenges for the lowest one and juggle the main missions a bit when one gets too low.

[Shadow]

Originally posted by Gator:

So my understanding with trader reputation is as follows.

1 You complete missions for them, you gain rep. Finishing missions for one and gaining rep causes you to lose rep for another.
2 UICS is basically the only one that really matters right now, 80% of the good ♥♥♥♥ is locked behind this trader. Almost all the good guns for sure.

What I do not know and would like to.

1 Do you gain/lose the same amount of rep per mission?
2 Do you lose rep for doing the challenges?
3 Basically, is it possible to rank them all up once with proper mission selection?

It seems you do lose rep with the other two factions when you achieve a challenge. I verified with screenshotting the progress bars before and after.

To me it seems like for every x amount of challenge rep reward you gain with one faction you lose 0.5*x with both other factions. E.g. doing 3 fuel challenges at once for VLF, VLF, and UICS the bar for UICS stood still and the bar for VLF went up by the amount the bar for IGC went down.

So since it's capped at 0 it seems like you need to decide which faction you're not going to level with challenges and let that one bottom out at 0 while you level the other two.

[Kyrios]

I have all mine at t4 , I just take a main mission for whichever faction is lowest , and stack challanges , I only take the fuel and food ones once I have farmed up enough to complete them at the HQ , usually 3 of them at once , as long as your rep bar is inside the last box you have the tier unlocked , they dont have to be 100% full

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