Raising standing with pirates

[Reskal]

I tried to raise standing with pirates but does not work anyhow. I have 0 standing and it says 5 to bilge rat-rank, actually i am unknown. I did 8 missions so far, earned 6 millions for contrabands, have the highest rank in "bounties completed" and plundered 136 freighters.
Help welcome here

[Nettle]

Forget the missions, fly outside and start blowing holes in freighters. You raise standing with pirates by stealing their stuff. Obviously.

You may need to make up with one of the other factions by the time you're done though.

[Reskal]

I guess you mean i lose faction by attacking freighters..so the passports do not help in this ? I read somewhere, they can help in avoiding negative faction hits.

[M͕͕͗͗i͕͕͗͗y͕͕͗͗o]

Originally posted by Reskal:

I guess you mean i lose faction by attacking freighters..so the passports do not help in this ? I read somewhere, they can help in avoiding negative faction hits.

the pass can be used to reset any negative faction standing records at a Space Station Core.

[Spocks Toupee]

Attack Freighters in a Pirate System. You won't have to fight Sentinels etc IIRC

[Nettle]

Originally posted by Reskal:

I guess you mean i lose faction by attacking freighters

It's an even exchange. You're basically swapping one kind of standing for another.

Also note: if rep is positive the passport will do nothing. Since doing almost anything will increase your cachet with almost anyone it is entirely possible for you to have raised those numbers to the point where no amount of freebooting will so much as put a dent in them.

[Reskal]

I just cannot understand, that simply flying around and attacking freighters should be the only way to raise standing to pirates, and all the other actions i listed already would do nothing to standing. So is it a bug ?
Because all other factions raise standing buy doing the different actions mentioned in the catalogue.

[Nettle]

Originally posted by Reskal:

So is it a bug ?

I'd consider it a feature until the patch notes say otherwise.

[Reskal]

Someone else has a opinion on this please ?

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by Reskal:

Someone else has a opinion on this please ?

So you want to have high rep with Pirates but don't want to be a pirate? Why would they like you if you aren't a pirate, probably assume you are a spy or something.

[jOkA]

I just did some missions for the bountymaster, my reputation was raising and now they know me . Did it to aktivate the station teleport. Dont want to be a pirate.

[Reskal]

Thanks@Joka. Good to know that not noly ignorant people post here. I have the same reason..and to have max milestones with pirates, for collecting reasons. I don't like to rob people and steal their stuff.
Killing pirate rivals or smuggling contrabands is something else.

[Idaho]

Originally posted by Reskal:

Thanks@Joka. Good to know that not noly ignorant people post here. I have the same reason..and to have max milestones with pirates, for collecting reasons. I don't like to rob people and steal their stuff.
Killing pirate rivals or smuggling contrabands is something else.

Just letting you know that the factions in the game are not real people. So 'robbing and stealing' from 1s and 0s NPCs isn't going to affect your karma in real life. Probably.

[Idaho]

And not only are the NPCs in game just part of a game to us; in the game itself they are a simulation inside a virtual universe.

So NMS NPCs are like super fake.

[Reskal]

It is ! It has to do with consciousness, but don't mind that.

[Reskal]

For the records: found a good way not to lose standing with a faction. Do 2 types of mission in the same-race pirate system: 1. raid freighter mission, which will give standing to pirates and negative faction hits to a race, BUT if you do in a pirate-system of the same race a bounty mission to hunt another pirate, you get a standing point with the race for every pirate you shoot down in that mission ! Means, it evens out.