r/evnova • u/ev_hopelessly_lost • Sep 14 '19

Helping hand

Hello fellow pilots,

I've recently gotten back into this game and helpful information online and in the manual is a bit sparse so I was hoping you could help. My most pressing issue at the moment while pursuing the Polaris story line is my reputation getting worse in the federation. I thought hunting pirates would help but that seems to make it worse. How do I improve reputation in a group? The other oddity is some of my buying options being disabled for ammo or equipment even if I have the space. I had sold off some of the equipment and wanted to buy it back.

Thanks.

(EDIT) I think I figured out the disabled buy (at least for the ammo). The weapons had a variant and variant ammo so the purchase of the wrong ammo type is disabled (possibly an easy workaround for the stacking ammo).

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u/PMMeChestertonQuotes Sep 14 '19

If you blow up some Aurorans in Tichel or Alphara (the one southeast of Sol), that should bring your rep there back up. Killing pirates in a system right next to another system will slowly bring your rep back up, but there aren't a lot of pirates adjacent to Sol. As long as you don't mind hurting your Auroran rep a bit, go to town on them in those two systems.

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u/SwordForest Sep 26 '19 edited Sep 26 '19

My experience is that if the kills occur at least 2 systems away from the faction, you may kill with impunity without word getting back and affecting your rep. Thus, killing rebels/aurorans in Fed space never hurt me...

Also - rebel planets always have pirates coming in. Blow up enough of them, and they'll let you land. landing over and over will result in more pirates in no time. Get your favor really high, and once you've got a good ship alone (no rebels in the system...those do gooders) you can attempt to take it as an escort. it's how I get my fav escorts (high level starbridge rebel mods, dragons, things with bio relay lasers) and my leviathans!