Reputation 30?

[Cuddle_Rat]

I'm curious, is there any advantage to raising rep to 30 with a faction? I'm sitting at 22 with Segaris and was wondering if there's a heftier discount in store for me? Or is it to simple say that I'm a good friend, a mighty fine friend, the friendliest friend indeed?

[Captain Ardos]

If I remember correctly, if your rep gets above 27 and you have teleportation fully researched, you can teleport to any station the faction controls.

[mmmcheesywaffles]

Yes, you will be allowed to Teleport to their stations. Something that can be a lot more useful than it seems.

[eMYNOCK]

Highest Reputations means a super hefty Discount for buying, best Selling Prices possible, Teleporter Access to every Stations the related Faction owns, shared knowledge about Ship Orders and their Cargo... and, albeit harder to achieve than Rank 20 and Trade Subscription, you get a free Subscription as long as you are the literal Hero of that Faction.

[Cuddle_Rat]

Wow folks, I appreciate the responses, guess it's time for the Farstar Trading Company to soldier on for the good ol' Pioneer initiative!

[Wraith_Magus]

Remember that you can give yourself a slow passive gain of trust by just setting up trading ships or building stations and selling to those factions without needing direct involvement from the player. There's little stopping you from playing every side besides Xenon. If you only take war missions that involve dropping satellites or building or transporting things, you never have to cross any factions.

Eveeeeentually, you'l have 30 rep with a lot of factions, and you can teleport to every non-Xenon station in the game! (Of course, by the time it takes to do that, you can probably build a station in every sector, anyway...)

[mmmcheesywaffles]

I find the Teleport useful as once I have some serious amount of wares in my Inventory, a few teleports can get me around a lot of Traders. Lots of profitsssss.

[gorman2040]

Thanks @eMYNOCK, I added this to the X wiki

[Sinius]

Ahh. The "Preferred Investor" discount!

[Zalzany]

Yeah I always saw extra rep good also you can be more "active" with piracy. Like I got 23 with telradi to the point I could outfit a L but not afford to buy them and keep working on my companies economy. So idea of picking on a TEL miner who is in neutral space, sounds kind of nice right now, even though they are my strongest ally, and honestly its where I would retrofit any stolen L or XL ships right now as well lol

I just need to get them away from damn min security, that is the one is biggest pain to keep happy for me, I forget to turn a plasma off target my target and deicide to pop a criminal for fun at dock, using gun preset for just one main gun on my M frigate I tool around in right now, and its like ♥♥♥♥ I just went from 10 to 9 now I can't scan pirates in tel space with out making them annoyed...

[BurlsoL]

Originally posted by Zalzany:

I just need to get them away from damn min security, that is the one is biggest pain to keep happy for me

Easiest way to build up MIN is to setup a few scouts with repeat orders bringing hull parts, shield parts, engine parts, weapon parts, ect to the Wharf and Shipyards. You can have each scout setup with a singular component buying from source A, selling to Wharf, Buying form source B, selling to shipyard... To keep prices from tanking.

The thing about MIN, is that they will continually build ships for fighting pirates and xenon to a fairly good point. Meanwhile scouts are cheap and can be done relatively early in your game as long as those resources are available. Kestrel Sentinel works well because it is built at the very same Wharf you would be supplying, had good speed and decent cargo space. If the wharf stops demanding stuff, buy a few freighters or gas collectors for your stations and it all starts going again.

4-5 scouts doing this will build reputation very quickly, and once setup you can pretty much ignore them and get continual gains in the background. As you can do this with every faction, as well as most steps along the supply chain of those resources with that faction, you can hit 20+ very quickly and keep it there even with the occasional stealing of one of their ships.

The other benefit is that for all those 20+ scouts you have running repeat orders, you can swap out their pilots to build up a collection of skilled pilots that will just chill out on a 'borrowed' constructor till you need them.


It is also a good idea to fly past the three stations they own now and then. Rarely you will get a station build contract (may have been patched out). If you get one of these, you can sneak in a production module or several. This pretty much opens the door to exploiting that station for reputation gains by setting up repeat orders with the things it demands.

[Z-Bane]

They can also unlock faction colors for all their ships at high rep. E.g. Yaki will make all their ships pink if they want.

[Zalzany]

Originally posted by Z-Bane:

They can also unlock faction colors for all their ships at high rep. E.g. Yaki will make all their ships pink if they want.

That is good to know I saw terran ship the pioner guys with nice looking like blue arcticish camo on its trade ship at a dock and I got a little jealous of that paint job. Now I know I can get it if I make nice long enough

[g0815krieger]

Originally posted by BurlsoL:

Easiest way to build up MIN is to setup a few scouts with repeat orders bringing hull parts, shield parts, engine parts, weapon parts, ect to the Wharf and Shipyards.

You can use autotraders, if you have 3 star pilots.
Selling range 0 jumps and buying range 3 jumps, select all goods the wharfts need, voila constant rep flow with MIN

[BurlsoL]

Originally posted by g0815krieger:

Originally posted by BurlsoL:

Easiest way to build up MIN is to setup a few scouts with repeat orders bringing hull parts, shield parts, engine parts, weapon parts, ect to the Wharf and Shipyards.

You can use autotraders, if you have 3 star pilots.
Selling range 0 jumps and buying range 3 jumps, select all goods the wharfts need, voila constant rep flow with MIN

Doesn't work as reliably and can't restrict it to just do runs to a singular station. The idea with repeat orders is that every single loop will be generating rep for the intended faction no matter what the other prices in the system might be. As MIN and TEL share sectors, you would get few trades with those specific stations as any station building in the area would also be buying tons of hull parts and likely be paying more. You would also be making that ship continually checking every station within 3 jumps for better prices instead of just using a singular station nearby every step.

The other thing is that it doesn't need a 3 star pilot. Meaning that you can use this repeat orders route to train up fresh pilots, rather than needing an experienced one to start it going.

Auto-trading works better when you are looking to build money in the background and don't care much who you buy and sell with.

[Heisenquark]

Originally posted by eMYNOCK:

Highest Reputations means a super hefty Discount for buying, best Selling Prices possible, Teleporter Access to every Stations the related Faction owns, shared knowledge about Ship Orders and their Cargo... and, albeit harder to achieve than Rank 20 and Trade Subscription, you get a free Subscription as long as you are the literal Hero of that Faction.

Another example I would be very grateful for, if there was a manual or wiki where these things are.

And I don't mean the current manual/wiki, because that's a baseline at best.