Free Colonists Faction

[Bob-O-Matic]

They have been given the orbital trade stations. (was Polaris) And many planets have their POI's on them. You must be friendly to use their teleporters. (like Polaris) However, they have no territory & no missions so it's impossible to get friendly with them. (even by shooting predators) I had a situation in space where an enemy approached my ship, my guns fired but hit one of their ships that was in the way. Now I'm unfriendly with them. The only way to get the Seal of Credibility is to go attack the Pirates? I need to destroy 10 cores of their orbital stations or capital vessels. Who's idea was this? Ridiculous.

[ravien_ff]

In project Eden I'm adding ways to get reputation with them by helping them out with mining missions or turning in bandit insignias.
But for the default game yeah doesn't seem like there's a good way to gain reputation. I think if you kill pirates you gain 5 reputation per kill but I haven't checked.

[mathaniel]

Thanks ravien

[Bob-O-Matic]

We are looking forward to the official release of Reforged Eden. Hopefully, that addition will carry over. Thanks.

[myk]

Originally posted by ravien_ff:

In project Eden I'm adding ways to get reputation with them by helping them out with mining missions or turning in bandit insignias.
But for the default game yeah doesn't seem like there's a good way to gain reputation. I think if you kill pirates you gain 5 reputation per kill but I haven't checked.

I was thinking since their remote places often buy narcotics running drugs to them should be a way to get rep. It would fit a usual space story line.

[Runeshadow]

With (COL) owning the trade stations now, it seems impossible to recover from the mistake of angering them. When (POL) Traders sold the Credibility Seals, that would have been the solution.

I understand the game story, but for most early-game mistakes like this, there is a solution to avoid starting over. I cannot advance in the Polaris missions due to not being able to visit the Trade Stations.

I do have the mission activated to destroy 10 Pirate bases or vessels. I destroyed a Pirate outpost and got no benefit. I destroyed several Pirate drones with no benefit. So, those did not count. Some of the missions can be manually completed when they glitch out do to timeline issues. Not this one.

I found some more difficult Pirate bases and vessels further out in the map to complete that mission. I destroyed 2 ships that contributed to the mission. Unfortunately, as the battle was raging, 2 (COL) ships jumped in there and attacked me. My guns fired back and now this mission is WAY out of reach.


I think this system needs some help. Cheers!

[Jalore]

Originally posted by Runeshadow:

With (COL) owning the trade stations now, it seems impossible to recover from the mistake of angering them. When (POL) Traders sold the Credibility Seals, that would have been the solution. Cheers!

Is a really fast way to get your faction up now with col,pol,bof,traders and somewhat with zirax and feels bit exploitative as it is so fast compared to other ways. at the pirate asteroid base, mine the asteroid the pirate base is in. even looting it for other jumps in faction if want too. if can mine it with a a CV drill tool turret, large area of effect and good range. i moved all my negative factions to honored mining out two of the bases asteroids and was done quickly.

ofc is some danger of drones show up and pirate patrol vessels coming to help defend.

edit: hand drill will be way to slow.

[Teralitha]

Yea I dont get this change either. You can find colonist POIs on other planets, but not in the starter galaxy. The only option you have there is to raid the pirate's asteroid base to raise colonist faction.

[Eternie]

It does seem that most actions you can do is to aggravate factions; whereas to improve factions only has one option mostly except for Zirax where killing predators or prey gives bonuses.

Visiting any in their territory in a vehicle has negative effect if less than friendly, even on the motorbike in Talon areas. Such that you need to kill predators to make up for that.
Whereas space based factions don't have any prey you can kill .. so only option in starter system would be a console command to improve faction status. Not an ideal way to play.

[Amrak]

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Yea I dont get this change either. You can find colonist POIs on other planets, but not in the starter galaxy. The only option you have there is to raid the pirate's asteroid base to raise colonist faction.

I have found colonists on most of the starter planets. The one I like the best is the one on the Barren Metal planet. Lots of good trading with that one.

[Amrak]

Hover over the faction and it tells you what makes them happy and what ticks them off. Killing any pirates will increase their rep. Killing pirates in space near one of their base/ship seems to get more rep.

[Teralitha]

Originally posted by Amrak:

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Yea I dont get this change either. You can find colonist POIs on other planets, but not in the starter galaxy. The only option you have there is to raid the pirate's asteroid base to raise colonist faction.

I have found colonists on most of the starter planets. The one I like the best is the one on the Barren Metal planet. Lots of good trading with that one.

Not in the vanilla game.

[Amrak]

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Originally posted by Amrak:

I have found colonists on most of the starter planets. The one I like the best is the one on the Barren Metal planet. Lots of good trading with that one.

Not in the vanilla game.

Yes in the vanilla game! They are right next to the Kriel area. I mined zasc and estr there using the colonists constructors to help finish my CV.

[Teralitha]

Originally posted by Amrak:

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Not in the vanilla game.

Yes in the vanilla game! They are right next to the Kriel area. I mined zasc and estr there using the colonists constructors to help finish my CV.

Uh... you are trolling.

[Amrak]

Maybe you should take another look at the Orbital Trade station and the Top Distillery. Both are colonist. I just restarted a vanilla game just for you because I have not played vanilla since the story run of 1.6. Nope they are still colonist. Heading to the barren planet to get some picture of them there as well.

PS if you take out the pirates and get the recipe it will boost your rep.

[Amrak]

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Originally posted by Amrak:

Yes in the vanilla game! They are right next to the Kriel area. I mined zasc and estr there using the colonists constructors to help finish my CV.

Uh... you are trolling.

I am not sure who is trolling whom!!! I have found not only the Colonists are part of the first main story, Top Distillery, I am see them just as much as Polaris in the starter system.