[TC] Unholy Traitor and Paranid Rep

[Callidus Thorn]

What is the best way to gain rep with the Paranid, I want to be able to capture a Hyperion without having to go through a fleet or two to get there, but of course with the game start I picked, I'm shoot on sight with them.

Suggestions?

[Kapakio]

Missions

[Zaixionito]

Pirates

(Kill 'rats in Paranid space)

[amtct]

Exterminate the Argons

[Smacksim]

I'm sure Nanook or someone will correct me if I'm wrong, and I could well be.... Having played this start a few weeks ago I found that the only thing that would improve rep in this situation was killing enemy ships in the territory of the race-to-be-improved. It seems that once reputation is low enough missions either do not spawn or have no impact on reputation. I seemed to get Paranid or Split missions occasionally, but I checked reputation every time and it was not affected. Could'a been a fluke of some sort, but I gave up on that approach.

You start out at Rank -4 with both the Split and Paranid. I repaired Split rep by splashing Boron freighters in Split core sectors. Only 1% gain per ship though, so it took a long time, and I took breaks to rebuild Boron reputation with missions along the way. Once I hit Rank -3 I did a single mission and brought my reputation up to Split Rank 1 to my great relief.

Personally I'd advise against killing pirates as its useful to have them as friendly as possible for various reasons, but it is certainly viable to do so. Killing Xenon or Khaak is fine but its a bit difficult to find them as you'll have a hard time keeping any deployed satellites alive.

[Callidus Thorn]

It'll have to be pirate killing then, since I want to stay on the good side of the Argon, that way it's easier to steal their ships. And shooting pirates is always fun, although I'm guessing that it will take a while.

Thanks

[Kapakio]

I'm pretty sure you can raise your reputation with Paranid doing missions in this start

[Nanook]

There seem to be some arbitrary and random high and low limits to gaining rep through missions. I noticed this recently in my pirate game when my pirate rep stopped increasing at around +300K or so. Trading with them above that level produced small rep increases, but missions did nothing. Another time, though, my rep with them dropped way down in the 5 figures (~10K) and when I did several missions for them, my rep went up to around 400K before leveling off.

I noticed a similar issue with race rep, although in my current Terran game, I'm at max rep with all races. I had to kill some Paranid for a mission and rep dropped one level. A couple of missions later, it was back to max.

I have no clue why it does this, but it doesn't seem consistent. It's just wierd.

[pjknibbs]

Maybe there IS a fixed limit and you just jumped over it by a different amount each time due to a single massive rep reward from a mission?