For all the players who like to skip all the grinding for agents and therefore reputation and who just wanna enjoy and discover the FL universe with all the new features except for the scaling reputation system here, is an easy but cheaty way out of it:
I have just marked it as spoiler so I hope people don't get offended too much by this if they don't care and think that everyone have to grind for the reputation like every normaler player of X3:FL does
- Cheat Engine
- Script console (Thereshallbewings as player name)
- Save your Savegames because we are going to enter the **modified** stance to avoid cheated achievements
- Enter the player menu (P), click rename (M) and enter "Thereshallbewings" (T must be in capital) and confirm with "enter"
- Once the script console is active, enter it (docked off station) with shift+C and then press "s"
- enable the additional debug information in one of the last columns
now you can see the numeric race reputation once you select a ship and access the information tab (select target>I). If you have selected an Argon ship, you can now see the relations between Argon and all the other factions -> also between you and and Argon - Write down the number with the right algebraic sign
- Now open cheat engine,t-search or any other memory scanner
You have to make the programm show every value as if there were signed (for Cheat Enige it is Edit-> Settings and then mark "show values as if they were signed" - Open X3:FL with the magnifier icon from the list
- Once it's loaded it is time to start the scan: type in the value (e.g. -15452) (with the right sign), deselect fast scan and now let the scan run
- now you got the result list. Now it's time to find the right value out of the search list by simply changing it. Kill an Argon ship or which race you ever are editing or improve your rank
- if there are less than 30 or so entries you can maybe already find the right value. Changed values are marked as red. Otherwise change back into X3:FL and check the selected ship again for the right value
- type in the new value (e.g. -14785) and click "Next Scan"
- In the best case you now should only have one value remaining in the adress list -> otherwise just change it once again by repeating step 11: double click the right balue to add to your list in the bottom section
- change the value by double clicking on it. It can be a number between 100.000 (for Argon this would be +10: Hero of the Federation) and -100.000
I know that a lot of people will be offended by this post and will hate me for it. I've played every X part so far in the last 20 years and spend more than 1000 hours in this universe and I love it. There are a lot of players out there struggeling with the rep-loss in FL and I don't want them to quit this awesome game and leave a sour taste in their mouths. Everyone has to decide if they want to use this cheat and because the achievements are turned of due to the **modified** stance no one will get hurt by it