That's not the only issues and by the way, Boron Argon is the easy side, and i guess the only one that was tested. If you chose the other side, most of the unique ships can't be boarded cause they simply do not exists outside of the shipyards. You will also miss many factories. Fun fact if you want to build a 200mj factory, you can't if you are Split/Paranid friend, they do not sell 200mj factories. It's an example in many. I chose the splits cause i like their ships, they are usually really fast and punchy just like i like to play, but it's just a nightmare. All the corps hates you, befriending with the Goners locks you with Strongarms, and if you fight the Argons in teladi space, they end up sending a response fleet to attack you and end up hostiles too.Hwitvlf wrote: ↑Mon, 14. Jun 21, 00:31I understand the weirdness of having big rep swings over giving someone a ride, but I still wonder: are people actually having problems from the effects of the swing, or is it just that the swings feel wrong?
I'm enemies with a bunch of factions, but so what? The only time it matters is if I want equipment/station/ships which are unique to that faction. I just pirate the ships from hostile factions instead of buying them, or raise rep a little to get access to unique factory/equipment.
I chose the Argon/Boron side. Without any worries, I can do missions for Argon/Boron/OTAS/Atrius/Teladi/NMMC. I do occasional missions for enemy factions and sometimes they become friendly, but soon change their minds so it doesn't really have an effect. I destroyed 2 Xenon K groups in pirate space and nothing significant happened. The pirates became friendly briefly, but soon changed their mind as I boarded one of their ships.
The benefits are massive variety in combat missions and way more activity. I just boarded a Kyoto during a protect-factory mission in Kingdom End; how cool is that!?
Most people that don't have "too much" issues with Dynamic relation simply played with Boron/Argons, or simply went pirate to be hostile with everybody from the start (After putting PHQ in safe place).
That's completely untrue, i only traded for the first part of the game with all races, except borons cause they were too far away from my sector (Profit Center Alpha) and simply trading got me enemy with all corps (except NMMC) and had to use agents to keep the boron in the "grey" to avoid them attacking my traders.Snafu_X3 wrote: ↑Mon, 14. Jun 21, 00:33I really wish ppl would stop using this statement: it's both untrue & misleading!
You can be friends (ie docking allowed, trading ships unharrassed etc) with everyone in the X-universe (barring Xenon/Khaak ofc). What you /cannot/ (currently) do is /maintain/ those relations, largely due to DR. What has been explicitly denied is /maximum/ rep with /all/ <factions/races/WHY> at the same time, which IMO makes the game more interesting. You can still trade etc with most, if not all, of those entities given a little thought & work, but you'll have to keep a constant eye on that new factor [DR] to retain that stable relationship
You are also misleading people in your statement, listening to you mean you can be best friend with 2 races and be "friend" or neutral with all the rest, that is completely wrong and it was clearly intended at first. If you want to have access to some interesting stuff to fight the Xenons or Kha'ak, you need to have someone hate you. And having someone hate you mean if you fight them in the space of someone who likes you, he will sooner or later turn hostile cause of this annoying police mechanics that works only against the player.
Seriously i was ready to play only with Teladis ugly ships, but i realized even Teladis reputation are locked by some strange mechanics. Being hated by Yakis and Pirates i don't see what should lock me, but i am. spending tons of agents to be able to buy the Teladi M2, lot of farm absurdly tedious for nothing. And yes i'm aware sometime a single agent send you to +10 rep. What shouldn't be possible with the actual mechanic, and instead of having people brag out "it's easy" they should really see what bug they exploited, cause that's a bug. When i see people screening that and saying everyone "See it's easy" having 2 main factions at +10 and the 3 resting at +8 it's clearly not how DR is supposed to work. So again, it miss completely it's target and is just plain annoying. If it's intended to be able to be +8 with everyone, then simply remove DR, right?