Faction Benefits

[Kreychek]

Anyone know what you get for raising your friendliness w/factions? Or lowering it?

I was thinking ships/equipment become available upon hitting friendly, but not seeing anything yet for Militia in the starter system. Then again, the friendly bar is quite wide, so maybe you need to cap out? My gut says it's more of a buffer in case you accidentally ♥♥♥♥ someone off.

Militia also doesn't appear to have their own stations in the first system, unlike the other factions, so maybe that's part of it?

edit: typo

[MikeLemmer]

Extra equipment doesn't become available for Militia reputation, but you get access to better equipment for ranking up in the Merchant & Mercenary guilds.

[~Draugkir~]

Can you be in more than 1 guild at the same time?

[waxx66man]

There are only the two guilds he mentioned, and you can be a member of both. The merc guild is only found after you warp out of the first system, though.

[B0Tzerker]

Where do I find the merchant guild?

[BellatorMonk]

Oh well what is the point of getting past Neutral with Militia then? Other than to not have them attack you on sight with bad rep..why bother being a decent to good guy?

[Icebound]

Originally posted by BellatorMonk:

Oh well what is the point of getting past Neutral with Militia then? Other than to not have them attack you on sight with bad rep..why bother being a decent to good guy?

I'm starting to get the impression that there's no reason to stay a good guy except for access to the non-pirate ports.

I'm thinking that after I beat the main story I will switch sides and check out that sweet pirate tech.

[Kreychek]

That clears things up. Ty

[Kinja]

I'v been wondering about this as well, i'm not really seeing any benefit for becoming friendly with them, no new ships/equipment and, unless i'm blind, no improvment in prices either.

[Facepalm]

Isn't the arcturus ship only available at militia stations?
It was one of my favorite ships untill i got the Sorcerer.
Also merc and militia stations only appear past the 1st system

[FreedomFighter]

Originally posted by Kinja:

I'v been wondering about this as well, i'm not really seeing any benefit for becoming friendly with them, no new ships/equipment and, unless i'm blind, no improvment in prices either.

Some ship only available if you are friendly with them, which allow you to dock at their station.

[michaelmerlin]

Factions also have exlusive subsystems. Merchants get scanners, EMP resistance and the ability to make deflectors repell magnetic mines.

[Kexlar]

Pirate factions have some really fast charging Deflector shields.

[lyravega]

Originally posted by ~Draugkir~:

Can you be in more than 1 guild at the same time?

Yes