how to get the shek to like me...

[GrandTickler]

i been trying so long to get on their good side now, and now i captured the HN leader Bayan refuses him cause im allied with both the traders guild and united cities, is there no way i can change their mind about taking the phoenix captive or am i stuck hunting small bounties till 50 standing? i can barely find any bounties for them

[アゼム]

There's a mod that lets you build rep by being a wandering healer. If you find wounded people you get rep with their faction by helping them. Maybe try that

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

i been trying so long to get on their good side now, and now i captured the HN leader Bayan refuses him cause im allied with both the traders guild and united cities, is there no way i can change their mind about taking the phoenix captive or am i stuck hunting small bounties till 50 standing? i can barely find any bounties for them

I just hunted bounties until I had them at Allied. Sure, it was a tough slog, but it was kind of fun, roleplaying it out. I based out of The Hub and hauled them to Squin. I'd just go check on likely bandit camp spots and would check the horizon for campfires at night.

(I didn't want to turn in any named bounties and wanted to keep the world-state the same, otherwise I would have just gone after the Dust King, etc.)

[Kash]

Originally posted by TaquitoBurrito:

There's a mod that lets you build rep by being a wandering healer. If you find wounded people you get rep with their faction by helping them. Maybe try that

What mod is that?

[Kash]

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

i been trying so long to get on their good side now, and now i captured the HN leader Bayan refuses him cause im allied with both the traders guild and united cities, is there no way i can change their mind about taking the phoenix captive or am i stuck hunting small bounties till 50 standing? i can barely find any bounties for them

Have you captured or killed the Bugmaster yet?

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by Kash:

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

i been trying so long to get on their good side now, and now i captured the HN leader Bayan refuses him cause im allied with both the traders guild and united cities, is there no way i can change their mind about taking the phoenix captive or am i stuck hunting small bounties till 50 standing? i can barely find any bounties for them

Have you captured or killed the Bugmaster yet?

not yet no, but im kinda afraid its gonna give me the same result of bayan scoffing at me for allying with traders guild and united cities. maybe ill try out the mod although i thought u already get reputation for healing them (only like 1 for every 10 soldiers healed maybe xD) i guess the mod drastically improves it? still wish i could turn in the phoenix though, feels kinda unrewarding and unfun for the shek to refuse the bounty for their biggest enemy in the land lol

[Locklave]

3 ways total. 2 quick ways, 1 slow way.

1&2 Hand in Bugmaster or the Phoenix.
3 Turn in normal bounties.

I'm unaware of any other vanilla way, bandaging people can only get you 5 points max.

[Shidan]

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

Originally posted by Kash:

Have you captured or killed the Bugmaster yet?

not yet no, but im kinda afraid its gonna give me the same result of bayan scoffing at me for allying with traders guild and united cities.

You are right, that is exactly what would happen.

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by Locklave:

3 ways total. 2 quick ways, 1 slow way.

1&2 Hand in Bugmaster or the Phoenix.
3 Turn in normal bounties.

I'm unaware of any other vanilla way, bandaging people can only get you 5 points max.

being unable to hand in those bounties is the whole issue here. but then again im already at 34 reputation with shek now might as well do a few more bounties. does anyone know if they still act angry if i manage to reach 50 and ally with them? or will they accept the phoenix

Originally posted by Shidan:

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

not yet no, but im kinda afraid its gonna give me the same result of bayan scoffing at me for allying with traders guild and united cities.

You are right, that is exactly what would happen.

thanks for confirming


edit: i kinda did some research on the wiki pages but unless i missed it the Shek dont even seem hostile with the UC at all, even less so with the traders guild, unless im mistaking them with another traders guild?

[Shidan]

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

does anyone know if they still act angry if i manage to reach 50 and ally with them? or will they accept the phoenix
thanks for confirming

They will never accept him as long as you're a HN, UC, Traders Guild, or Slaver Traders ally. Nor will you ever get the official dialog naming you Battle Born. Does not matter if you ally with the Shek yourself or not.

They will still aid you in base raids though, and call you Battle Born in dialog. And Esata will still discuss destroying the HN with you. And you can recruit wandering squad of their soldiers to follow you into battle as bodyguards.

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

i kinda did some research on the wiki pages but unless i missed it the Shek dont even seem hostile with the UC at all, even less so with the traders guild, unless im mistaking them with another traders guild?

No they are not at war currently, but they despise each other lorewise, and until recently were at war. They have a tenuous peace at the moment, but it's a very reluctant one.

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by Shidan:

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

does anyone know if they still act angry if i manage to reach 50 and ally with them? or will they accept the phoenix
thanks for confirming

They will never accept him as long as you're a HN, UC, Traders Guild, or Slaver Traders ally. Nor will you ever get the official dialog naming you Battle Born. Does not matter if you ally with the Shek yourself or not.

They will still aid you in base raids though, and call you Battle Born in dialog. And Esata will still discuss destroying the HN with you. And you can recruit wandering squad of their soldiers to follow you into battle as bodyguards.

alright thanks a lot for the help. maybe ill start a new game, i was not aware i could only pick shek OR UC. if i had known that i wouldve never allied with UC. i dont want to be hostile towards the UC either cause i guess my stance is somewhat neutral towards em. i just wanted to turn in Seta (seto? the HN one lol) to UC and phoenix to shek to make them both happy. getting 100 rep with the UC was so much easier than shek with 2 grass bandit bounties knocking on their city gates every 5 minutes, but shek was my ultimate goal, sadge

[Shidan]

You could end the alliance with UC factions easily enough. Just attack some guards and run away, usually enough on its own for me, at most it should only take a couple tries. Once you're no longer an ally with them, the Shek will be willing to talk.

On my main save I've been allies and enemies of all the major factions before, as I cycle around between them from time to time over the years.

[Cuddle_Rat]

Toil not under the pacifistic fist of the Golem. Place your faith instead in Flying Bull, true king of the Shek. Join the Krall's Chosen today, we have glory, we have battle, most importantly...we have cookies!

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by Cuddle_Rat:

Toil not under the pacifistic fist of the Golem. Place your faith instead in Flying Bull, true king of the Shek. Join the Krall's Chosen today, we have glory, we have battle, most importantly...we have cookies!

sorry they already got turned into Swiss cheese when they approached my base in Okran's pride lol

[アゼム]

Originally posted by Kash:

Originally posted by TaquitoBurrito:

There's a mod that lets you build rep by being a wandering healer. If you find wounded people you get rep with their faction by helping them. Maybe try that

What mod is that?

Improve relationships by Healing