I have just got myself a teleporter. I was thinking it would be a lot easier than flying to the Polaris Orbital Trading Station all the time but it says "Your reputation is not good enough" - I am Neutral with them. Is this intended or just forgot about when the trading was changed so that you can trade when your are Neutral? There doesn't seem to be any logic behind it.
you can not use their teleports unless you are friendly or better. Getting rep with Pol is incredibly easy. They will take your money and sell you stuff if you are neutral, but they have to like you in order to allow you to use their stuff (in this case power hungry teleports)
Is this what the devs have said in another thread? Any change of a like to said thread please. In my other games I have done the missions so it's never been a problem. This time I'm trying something different and not following the missions as quickly. Just trying different ways of playing the game rather than just blasting everything and everyone at every opportunity.
https://empyriononline.com/threads/a12-exp-teleporter-system.92650/ https://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-12-teleporter-network.93922/ - In Survival, the teleporters will use an automatic range-finder to reveal targets you can teleport to, based on range and faction standing. You need to be at least FRIENDLY with an NPC faction to use their teleporters. - You can teleport freely between your own structures and ships BUT for NPC faction stations, you need to 'discover' them first ( = discovered = added to your Registry) - There are a few limitations, though: Teleporting away while shield are active or your station is under fire is not possible. - On the other hand, inbound teleports will not be held off by shields or when a teleporter is off or your station is under fire - You can of course only teleport to your and your factions destinations, not to OTHER players private or other factions structures.
Well that's a shame. Looks like I have to go blasting some baddies then and do the missions now.... or just carry on flying there..
SP? If so open console and type faction rep local Pol 18001 This sets you to friendly with the Polaris
Yes I am playing Single Player. Thanks for the info. I think I will go down the route of what @johnietoth1967 and do the 'easy peasy' missions. I like to play different ways and I completely forgot about the smaller missions.
bonus tip with those missions. Say you are doing a Talon mish for harvesting the trees (burn the weed or something) and you find some predators. You can switch from one mish to the other AND BACK without losing your place in that mish. Say you need 20 logs.. you get 15 and you see an alien big or spider, switch to the mish for killing them, then switch back without losing where you are at. Works great
Oh that's cool. It means the game now only needs some kind of "general mission manager" that would keep track of all events and compare them with all latest "active / incomplete" and "checkbox ok" missions entries to be able to run them simultaneously (a "filtering" script all allowed events would go through).
If it moves, kill it. If it grows, cut it down. Or "Mow their lawn and spray for pests." Personally I just like wholesale slaughtering Zirax until I'm Honored with all the other factions, then go do my own thing until I decay down to that last tick of Unfriendly, then go play lawn care specialist until they love me - honored with all factions, time to kill some Legacy.
I did the slaughter thing the last 2 games a created. I thought I would try something different this time.
good credits can be made with Zirax once you get friendly.. Can trade at neutral true, but at friendly you can use their TP's
By the time I get around to befriending the Zirax, I've usually looted upwards of 30-40 million from them. How much are you making?
The OP does bring up a good point on this though. At the time this rule was written that you needed to be at least friendly to use teleporters you also needed to be friendly to trade. Now that you can trade at neutral reputation, should the teleporters be allowed at neutral as well? I'm personally okay with whichever. But if you can trade with them then maybe you should be allowed to use the teleporters as well. It does seem like they were paired before and now they aren't.
I´d still leave it at friendly or honored. If the station were yours would you allow everybody to instantly teleport themself (and maybe an attacking force) instant access? At the same time i think that as this is a convenience feature it should be "earned", also trading with a faction should give minor reputation point increase.
I normally get friendly around level 15 and honored about 1-2 levels after that at most. I can this is about 5 days (at most) of RL game time playing.. Plus I make about 100k a trip to 'certain' areas.
On "neutral" Terms I would not grant anyone access to my facilities while on "friendly" Terms you would have earned my Trust and things would look different. Wouldn't you agree?
All depends on which way you look at it. Your comment is true for MP but not for SP. I'm playing Single Player and can fly to a Polaris station and trade with them while I'm Neutral with them. They don't mind.
