[#899]Criminal Traffic not raising reputation for certain factions Beta6 495135 - Fix in a build after 6.00 HF1.

[DirkGriffin]

When shooting mass traffic at certain faction stations the station security never comms to say thanks and your reputation never increase. This happens when playing Terran story line or custom start.
- Custom start with Terran tech, entire Paranid race all factions would not raise reputation even when rep is in minus, tried at -10, -5, 0, 5 and 10.
- Fixes tried,

• restart game
  restart PC
  repair local files
  start new game

- starting as Terran PIO faction, I was able to get rep from Paranid faction, but now all the Argon Factions are bugged out, ARG, HAT, ANT. None of them gives reputation for criminal traffic.

Further testing shows that this might also affect enemy fighters like Xenon and Kha-ak. more testing required though as its difficult to keep them within the range of the stations.

[DirkGriffin]

in trying to replicate this I found a "fix".

• [fly to a station of the race that is bugged that has police]
  [shoot one criminal traffic]
  [stay close to the station]
  [annoy the police until they scan you]
  [While they scan you, stand up - default keys (Ctrl + D)]
  [This will give you all the reputation from the start of the bug]

I just got around 10 rep points with HAT after doing the steps above.

[Alan Phipps]

@ devs: Also see this thread.

[DirkGriffin]

@ devs: Also see this thread.

Thanks Alan, But this is not the same. I did read through the linked thread before logging the bug.
In this particular case you can't even get confirmation that you destroyed mass traffic. Talking about the non-linear rep gain I have done this for years and know that from 0 to 5 usually takes 1 criminal per rep point and there on up it compounds, but at least the station still acknowledges that you assisted and shows rep gained, but the rep stays the same.
I unfortunately overrode the save where this was an issue, but I have a stream that showcase this. At your convenience please have a look at my stream at the time stamps below. If you are unable to do so, I will try and replicate this and keep a save file handy.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1762825432
Shot Criminal at argon station did not receive any notification = 00:09:35
Shot criminal at Paranid station and received Rep = 00:22:22
Tested on a HAT station to make sure = 00:59:45
Scanned by argon police fixed the issue and got all the built up rep = 01:09:40
Notification of all rep ANT went from 0 to 10 = 01:10:35
Attached image

[DirkGriffin]

Just got the same bug in the same game, when this bug occur it also renders the stations unable to comms VIA the C button. Struggling to get the police to scan me again to prove that this is how I fixed it last time.

[DirkGriffin]

So this is still an issue and I can't get the police to scan my ship to check if this temporarily fix the issue.
Link below to a save file where I am at a argon station although all argon stations have this issue on this particular save.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

[DirkGriffin]

When I shoot an argon station, I also do not get the notification to stop or after you go to far, I would expect some communication from the station "stop your attack" or " ship to station security . . . "
but nothing, its complete radio silence. also there are no communication between AI pilots or stations, no "requesting permission to dock" or "permission granted" also no trash talking between AI pilots attacking enemies.

when shooting a argon trader when he is 500m from a station, I loose rep with the trader and distress beacons are launched, but no communication from either the pilot to me or to the station. also the station does not become hostile towards me.
Shooting down a security vessel does cause my rep to go down with the faction.

[j.harshaw]

Fixed. Should be in a future update. Thanks for the report.