How to trade with Split?

[Gromak]

There are lots of pirates trying to rob my ships in Split space and if they are killed I lose reputation with the Split factions... I understand that I have to manually scan those ships with a police license so I can then kill them without reputation loss but that is not feasible since I can't be everywhere at all times and also scanning fast S ships is impossible :S I wanted to trade things in their territory to improve their enconomy so they can defend better against Xenon but it seems impossible

[conrado.lacerda]

Have you tried the ZYA sectors? In my experience, there are almost no pirates there, and it's the region that matters most since it's ZYA that produces the bulk of military ships that protect both ZYA and FRF territories...

Edit: that said, the best approach on dealing with pirates is generally considered to be to issue a global order for your ships to simply comply with them.

[Gromak]

I only tried on FRF territory for now. I will try on ZYA sectors as you suggested, thanks. Complaining with pirates is bad though, they will simply steal my goods constantly so there is no point in trading in that case :(

[Gibbo]

You can improve their economy and help them by sending miners there. I think both familes have a couple of sectors good for mining. That's how I raise my rep with them. If you want to speed things up then start building stations there. If you build in the free familes sector then you will need to ship a lot of hull parts there yourself because their economy flatlined a long time ago. Once you get a shipyard built they are bouncing.

[conrado.lacerda]

Originally posted by Gibbo:

(...) you will need to ship a lot of hull parts there(...)

Indeed, the Split in general use a LOT of hull parts in their ships (very sturdy, btw), it's almost impossible to supply enough. Great way to make money...

[Gromak]

That is exactly what I was trying, shipping hull parts to them but theres a lot of pirate ships that just rob my traders before they can dock with the wharf/shipyard :(
Like, just right now a trader was almost on the Wharf and then 3 dragon raider marauders appeared and robbed him

[conrado.lacerda]

Aside from the ZYA suggestion, one important point is that pirates don't attack mining ships (or mining ships acting as traders), so mining activities in the region should be safe from them. (But NOT from Khaak or Xenon... )

Edit: I've never completed the Split story, so I ask the knowledgeable people: any of its resolutions solve the FAF issue?

[Wraith]

For the FAF issue I progress the plot until the split civil war

This will convert most of FRF station to ZYA or CUB

This leave FRF with only two out of the way sector so if they rebuild the pirate will be limited to be build there
ZYA don’t like FAF either so it normal behavior like SCA from now on

Piracy usually get reduced 70 percent because they aren’t neutral like with FRF