AP - Terran Commander - How can I repair Argon rep from -5?

[sadron]

I'm trying to find argon pilots in friendly sectors of the other races as a sort of proxy to repair the default bad rep you have with them so I can safely do the rest of the missions. Thus far I'm not having much luck in finding any of these argon human pilots (I've found pirate humans though...) do I need to just keep searching or is it gonna be impossible since I'm at the absolute bottom reputation?

[Joe McCracken]

As far as I know, about the only way you can get the rep up from -5 is kill the enemies of the Argon in their sectors, while you run away from them trying to kill you. The list would include, Paranid, Yaki, Terrans, Xenon, and Pirates.

[sadron]

Actually, I answered myself, found an argon guy in Boron territory who needed something done. This is gonna take a long time to get from -5 to -4...

[Joe McCracken]

Yep....

[Sam L.R. Griffiths]

After 4-5days Universe Time, I have managed to go up to ~31% and back down to 17%... moral of the Story do not place Laser Towers in war sectors.

I had 48 in Jupiter, 48 in Asteroid Belt, and 72 in Heretics End. They keep destroying lots of Argon ships upto and including M1/M2. My Terran/ATF rep keeps increasing though (currently at 68% at the top rank)

[zazie]

@ sadron: It can be extremely frustrating and never-ending to wait for such missions. You might try another approach:

Build stations/factories/mines with products that Argon need urgently as close as possible of Argon territory (but in a safe sector) and set the price to minimum (or to your production cost). Yes, you will probably loose some Credits there; but on mid-term each docking Argon ship will raise your rep - THAT is your profit!
If you want to maximize the output of your operation, set your station's friend-foe-settings in a way that only Argon ships are allowed to dock.

I am actually playing the XTC-mod. In this mod, gaining reputation is much more difficult than in X3TC-Vanilla, as missions are only offered if the reputation is not lower than -1. I raised my Argon rep in several IG-days from -4 to 0 mostly with an Ice-Mine and an Ore-Mine

[Neil Depledge]

I found that killing Xenon in Getsu Fume works a treat - Boron give you credits but Argon rep increases. Whilst you wait for the Xenon, you improve your flying skills by avoiding the Argon RR ships and shoot down the tomahawks sent after you. IME there is no penalty for squishing missiles only ships. Neil

[sadron]

@ sadron: It can be extremely frustrating and never-ending to wait for such missions. You might try another approach:

Build stations/factories/mines with products that Argon need urgently as close as possible of Argon territory (but in a safe sector) and set the price to minimum (or to your production cost). Yes, you will probably loose some Credits there; but on mid-term each docking Argon ship will raise your rep - THAT is your profit!
If you want to maximize the output of your operation, set your station's friend-foe-settings in a way that only Argon ships are allowed to dock.

I am actually playing the XTC-mod. In this mod, gaining reputation is much more difficult than in X3TC-Vanilla, as missions are only offered if the reputation is not lower than -1. I raised my Argon rep in several IG-days from -4 to 0 mostly with an Ice-Mine and an Ore-Mine

It's presently not logistically viable for me to do so. Thus far I am traveling around killing pirates and finding missions that take me into Argon territory to kill stuff. At the time of this post I'm at 68% out of -5. -4 should be ten times as fast, if the reputation charts on the wiki are any indication.