Suggestion for Alex: Make fuel and supplies "worth less" in the tollsand maybe the goods they are in terrible need , too ..
I think it is so expensive right now because if you go straight to the black market to sell legal goods that would avoid tariffs, so the authorities need another way to drain your money so the black market is not OP.
If you want really unfair, why not discuss buying an onslaught from the Hegemony and losing 12 points of relationship with tri tach! Buy a good fleet setup and you will lose 36-48 points in a handful of purchases.
If you want really unfair, why not discuss buying an onslaught from the Hegemony and losing 12 points of relationship with tri tach! Buy a good fleet setup and you will lose 36-48 points in a handful of purchases.
(Just FYI: the impact of trade on reputation (per faction) gradually levels off to a lower value, after about 1 million credits' worth of transactions. The reasoning is that while you're new on the scene, stuff you do gets more noticed, but as your actions fall into established patterns, it's becomes less noteworth. "Oh, that guy bought another Onslaught? Well, we're not happy about it, but not as alarmed as when he bought the first 3.")
The scan patrols are easy to avoid and carry a really low reputation hit. If you book it for a jump point (where available) you won't even take the rep hit. Def. worth avoiding 3k+ tolls that get leveled at you once you're rocking a decent fleet.I've gone through jump points and gotten the rep hit. In some cases, they chased me all the way to another system.
The scan patrols are easy to avoid and carry a really low reputation hit. If you book it for a jump point (where available) you won't even take the rep hit. Def. worth avoiding 3k+ tolls that get leveled at you once you're rocking a decent fleet.I've gone through jump points and gotten the rep hit. In some cases, they chased me all the way to another system.
I was screaming along in my Wolf chasing down pirates when a patrol pinged me.
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Patrol: "License and registration please."
Me: "Seriously? A traffic stop? There are pirates RIGHT THERE!" :: hands over license and registration through space-window ::
Patrol: "I'll be right back to check on these."
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:: Pirates blow up a passing trade fleet. ::
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Patrol: "According to our records you supplied food to starving Tri-Tachyon orphans a month ago. Thats a class A offense."
Me: "But! But PIRATES! Right there! Killing people!"
Patrol: "You're under arrest. Step out of the spaceship sir."
Me: "Oh come on!"
Patrol (into space-walkie talkie): "Suspect resisting arrest! I need backup! Kill on sight, kill on sight!
Yup, thats totally how it went down.
I dropped out of hyperspace at the Niflheim gravity well in pursuit of a bounty. Sure enough, the pirate fleet was there... and so was a Tri-Tachyon patrol that spontaneously decided to make that annoying ping sound and chase me for donut money.So you lured the TT into the bounty?
I took one look at the patrol, and one look at the pirates.
The opportunity was... too good to pass up, shall we say.
Yep. It cleaned out about half the patrol and got them to leave me alone (despite the "stop in the name of the law" message popping up about a second afterwards). The pirates didn't take significant losses.I dropped out of hyperspace at the Niflheim gravity well in pursuit of a bounty. Sure enough, the pirate fleet was there... and so was a Tri-Tachyon patrol that spontaneously decided to make that annoying ping sound and chase me for donut money.So you lured the TT into the bounty?
I took one look at the patrol, and one look at the pirates.
The opportunity was... too good to pass up, shall we say.
Tri-Tach is the one faction I prefer not to mess with, being the primary Afflictor patron and all, but also the high-tech makes for a tricky combat approach.Yep. It cleaned out about half the patrol and got them to leave me alone (despite the "stop in the name of the law" message popping up about a second afterwards). The pirates didn't take significant losses.I dropped out of hyperspace at the Niflheim gravity well in pursuit of a bounty. Sure enough, the pirate fleet was there... and so was a Tri-Tachyon patrol that spontaneously decided to make that annoying ping sound and chase me for donut money.So you lured the TT into the bounty?
I took one look at the patrol, and one look at the pirates.
The opportunity was... too good to pass up, shall we say.
I promptly thanked them by bashing their hulls in, of course. No good deed goes unpunished!
Ouch! 45k! What cargo were you hauling?
Pretty good standing with the Hegemony, been swatting pirates and just trying to be a good Hegemony captain. Plenty of money, good fleet, and lots of supplies backed up at Jangala station's warehouse.Do bounties for them and eventually you will get out of the hostile relationship. Oh and keep your rep above -75 what ever you do! Once it hits -75, you're screwed unless you use the console mod
I was dumbfounded that a pitiful little patrol had the audacity to exact a toll from my fleet of Eagles, Falcons, and Hammerheads. Out of pride I swiftly obliterated the patrol, thinking the reputation hit would be minor. Next thing I know, I'm cut off from my stockpiles (yeah, yeah, shoulda put in abandoned terraforming station) and forced to forget the notion of trading in Hegemony space ever again. Life hasn't been so tough, just inconvenient. The hardest part is avoiding Hedge encounters in the hopes that my reputation with them might improve at some point. Just not sure how that will happen, being at -56/100.
Do bounties for them and eventually you will get out of the hostile relationship.
Aaaaand I got tolled 3 times in a 10 seconds interval... All by the same faction: one entering the system near Sindria. Second just as I was leaving the market, and a third while I was jumping to Hyper a few seconds later... So I took a 5 points reputation hit while having paid 16k in tolls during the last day! Thanks. Good job ruining my new character from the start.
so far in all my games i have not payed off a single payrollTriTach is the only non-pirate faction open to any trade goods. The perks of being TriTach allied is high-tech ships and arms.
this may or may not be the reason that pirates and TriTach are the only factions that will trade with me
the pirates being the source of my 6million credit trade fortune made via fuel/supply/drug smugling
and the TriTach loving me because of my nasty habit of wiping out any hegemony or independent fleet i come across ;D
I am way too late to this thread, but most toll fleets never catch me. If you stay 100-150px away from them (so as to not trigger the "Continue" initial message, before the actual contact), and run for about 15s, they let go.
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Patrols are great; +1 reputation for nothing more than money!
The audacity of the patrols, and their inconveniant timing has almost made me want to assemble a large fleet and attempt starving culprit worlds to death by denying all trade.
The only reason I haven't is because it would be futile to attempt... It would just jack their prices and reduce stability, but that's about it, when the real goal is to say "Hey, Hegemony, how do you feel about losing a planet because you threatened extortion?"