[X3AP] capturing ship and reputation, how to not lose reputation?

[Space100]

I wanted to capture some ships, but I lost reputation. I captured a TL (Paranid) but in a pirate sector, I lost reputation. How to capture ships without losing reputation? (Unknown sectors ?) or in my HUB?

[AleksMain]

In my game I capture ships of enemies only.

Any other ships I can buy, because my pilot has very good reputation among friendly races.

[ancienthighway]

Any time you capture a ship, it affects your reputation. Where you capture it alters the amount of reputation lost. Same applies to killing ships. You lose less reputation in Pirate and Unknown sectors.

[pjknibbs]

As the others say, you can't capture a ship without losing rep. You just have to pick and choose who you're targeting so you can either do good deeds to counteract the loss, or so you don't care if you go into negative rep with that race.

[Sirrobert]

You're shooting at someone. Why would that ever not affect your rep?

[RainerPrem]

Hi,

You're shooting at someone. Why would that ever not affect your rep?

"shooting at" doesn't necessary result in losing reputation. The first hit is always interpreted as friendly fire.

Damaging a ship's hull does. In TC it's possible to board a ship with very little loss in reputation if all your Marines are 100 in engineering. You *can* board ships with 100 hull.

In AP you immediately lose 1% hull and one level of reputation (my experience, not looked into the scripts) when your Marines break into the ship. An unsuccessful attempt (Terran ships with hull polarization).

[UnknownObject]

There is no way of boarding without reputation loss at all. But:
1. If you start boarding with rep level +8...+10 (or (+7) many %), the rep remains positive after the boarding operation.
2. If you accept one or two long-time missionв (e.g. building) before boarding and complete them after boarding, you restore or almost restore your reputation.

In AP you immediately lose 1% hull

Not really. I captured many ships without damaging hull in X3AP.

[Jimmy C]

Only if you used marines with 100 mechanical and engineering. Otherwise, there will be damage. It's just a question of how much and when.