Improving reputation with Wanderers

[KATANA]

I'm currently investigating the Wanderers and their tech to update my alien info guide. Most of their ships seem to be inferior to other alien alternatives--in particular, their warship has 0 turret slots, which automatically makes it pretty mediocre simply by virtue of all the strongest alien weapons being turrets. But, their heavy freighter (Deep River I think it's called?) is the first alien heavy freighter we've seen in the game, which is fantastic as it's got tons of cargo space and shields/hull to match other alien ships instead of weak human shields/hull. If we could get consistent access to it I don't think it's unfair to say it's the best Freighter-class ship in the game (not counting Bactrians, they're technically warships but they can be modified into cargo ships, still they don't count since they're good at everything xD).

However obviously they require a license to purchase at this point, and there's currently no way to get such a license, so our only option for the time being is to capture them. Problem is, once we fight the Wanderers to raid their ships, their reputation with us drops below zero and their planets won't let us land, which means we can't access their outfitters to equip a Deep River with a jump drive and get it out of Wanderer space.

To that end I've been trying to figure out if there's any way to raise their reputation. I know they're enemies with the Unfettered Hai, so I camped out in an Unfettered system and destroyed a bunch of Unfettered ships, but my reputation with Wanderers remained unchanged. Has anyone else figured out any way to do it, or an alternate way of securing Wanderer ships without modding the save file?

[Wrzlprnft]

government "Wanderer"
	swizzle 2
	color .70 .91 .12
	"player reputation" 1
	language "Wanderer"
	"friendly hail" "wanderer untranslated"
	"hostile hail" "wanderer untranslated"

Code says no

[KATANA]

Originally posted by Wrzlprnft:

Code says no

Thank you. I didn't know where to start looking. Assuming you're correct that's rather disappointing, their ships are easy to capture (unlike Quarg, Korath, and Pug they have no biodefenses) but their reputation is so barely above 0 that as soon as you attack any of their ships to capture one they immediately become unfriendly and none of their planets allow landing, so it's impossible to get to an outfitter and equip one with a jump drive.

And the rest of their tech, while unique and interesting, is also kinda meh considering by the time you get to them you'll have already met the Hai and probably also the Korath who offer better stuff.

Guess we'll just have to wait until the next questline comes out that lets us get a license.

[ImperatorPavel]

If you want to know what they're like why not just modify your save file and give yourself the wanderer liscenses?

Would seem to be a good solution to your issue, until a way to get wanderer liscenses is added ofc.

[Pompano]

I wonder if changing your reputation in the save files will allow you to land?

Edit: Well I added a few 0's to the Wanderers Reputation and that allowed me to be able to land on all the planets..

[KATANA]

Originally posted by =pG=™ Pavel:

If you want to know what they're like why not just modify your save file and give yourself the wanderer liscenses?

Would seem to be a good solution to your issue, until a way to get wanderer liscenses is added ofc.

It's easy to know what they're like, you can see the stats on the shipyard screen. The issue is being able to obtain them, which presently without any way to increase reputation there is none, even by pirating, as once you start attacking they turn unfriendly so you can't land and equip a jump drive. At least none legitimate, i.e. not counting save editing.