How do I join the Children of Terra?

[Kaesar]

I feel like I'm missing something here as I can't seem to advance the quest Joining The War.

I'm level 44 right now, so I went out to blow up a Venghi station, did so, got the perk, but nothing seems to be advancing? CoT's rep is stuck at 2999/3000 and won't advance further than that. I also gain 0 rep for them.
I assumed that I had to find a CoT station, I knew where one was so I went over there but nothing is happening.

[Zarinthal]

You got White Collar? If so, read it very carefully

[Kaesar]

White Collar?

[Lovepack]

Originally posted by Kodan:

White Collar?

Its the perk you get for selling 20k worth of goods in a single sale. It does not allow you to honored with either CoT or Vanghi. There is a mod to remove the perk because it's stupid.

[Kaesar]

Ah okay, that explains that. That's kind of dumb.

[WeaverSong]

White Collar is the ultimate mark of the business man. By choosing it you have declared yourself to be a businessman for life; people like the CoT might be friendly with you, if you help them, but they know that they can never really trust you.

This issue is not in the reputation limits, but that the perk does not go out of its way to make sure you know what you are doing.

[Zarinthal]

Originally posted by WeaverSong:

White Collar is the ultimate mark of the business man. By choosing it you have declared yourself to be a businessman for life; people like the CoT might be friendly with you, if you help them, but they know that they can never really trust you.

This issue is not in the reputation limits, but that the perk does not go out of its way to make sure you know what you are doing.

exactly, if you don't care about CoT or venghi, it's a decent background perk, especially as a starting perk, but the sticker shock that first time is a tough pill to swallow. I will say there is great fortune to be had fighting against both CoT and Venghi alike, if you don't mind not having a V6 or Zeus or any of the other ships. I do see a lot of derelict Archimedes, if you're into that kind of thing

[Zarinthal]

"if you can't join em, beat em"

[Cyanmurder]

Help the rebels and destroy Venghi , you be ally with CoT soon.

[MegaKootz]

The main quest constantly bugs out and progression is easy to break.. its not even a quest really.. Game should have taken a bit more time to work out the main quest line..

I have played this game for about 200 hours now.. I have never been able to get through the games joining the war quest without it bugging out. You can ignore all the game breaking perks all you like.. The game will still probably bug the quest out.. I must have like.. 10 different play throughs.. not a single one allowed me to join the children of terra.. at some point, the game just breaks.. the quest is unfinishable.. even without the gamebreaking perks.

[stretch]

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

"if you can't join em, beat em"

Kill everyone.

[Gottchar]

Originally posted by MegaKootz:

The main quest constantly bugs out and progression is easy to break.. its not even a quest really.. Game should have taken a bit more time to work out the main quest line..

I have played this game for about 200 hours now.. I have never been able to get through the games joining the war quest without it bugging out. You can ignore all the game breaking perks all you like.. The game will still probably bug the quest out.. I must have like.. 10 different play throughs.. not a single one allowed me to join the children of terra.. at some point, the game just breaks.. the quest is unfinishable.. even without the gamebreaking perks.

I do not want to, in any way, say that what you described is wrong or did not happen to you. Yet, the two playthroughs I did in which I wanted to have one of the new ships, worked perfectly fine, and I got my zeus and my v6 without any issues.

Assuming you did still have Miner/Trader/Outis as background, the other way to ruin it is to "skip" honored and go directly to allied, which happens if you destroy a space station after you already have some influence. Could that be the case? This was fixed by now.

[Zarinthal]

Originally posted by Gottchar:

Assuming you did still have Miner/Trader/Outis as background, the other way to ruin it is to "skip" honored and go directly to allied, which happens if you destroy a space station after you already have some influence. Could that be the case? This was fixed by now.

when this happens to me, I find that if I just kill enough rebels to drop my rep down a class it then offers me the option to join. It's hilarious, like "hey, instead of murdering us, wanna jon? we totally trust you still..." but yeah, that should be fixed when 2.0.5 launches.

As far as waiting for more main story to launch the game, that was never going to happen afaik, the primary game is the sandbox, the story was always auxiliary and iirc it's growing beyond it's original scope anyway, so I'd rather have a game to play now, and the whole primary scenario wait until it's fully completed. Could be a little while

[Gottchar]

Maybe the quest just shouldnt be in your log at the start, and only pop up once you have already gotten Rebel/indoctrinated.

[Brannagan]

Right so i've just got the game and i'm currently trying to kill as many verenghi as I can so I can start the CoT missions (I presumed that's how it worked) but it's locked behind trade? Why can't I just join them and go ham on verenghi? Why do I have to become a merchant instead of being a good little soldier?

[WeaverSong]

It's not locked behind trade; you can join the CoT as Outis, without ever becoming a trader or doing any trading.