Building reputation and removing wanted status

[buksida]

Ok, I've found a system I'd like to hang out in for a bit and build reputation up there. I made nearly 2 million in an hour shooting down rogue Pythons in the local RES! However I seem to have picked up a wanted status (probably for salvaging cargo) at one of the stations.

I managed to dock there by flying through the letter box at full speed but there is no way to pay off the bounty (nothing in the contacts/fines section). Does this mean I'll get blasted as soon as I take off again ... or I cant come back to this system ... or I have to wait 4 days before I can play again and it is wiped clean ???

Also what effect/perks does increasing the reputation have on local systems and what is the best way to go about it (am negative now due to this wanted status)?

[Aeleric]

Hi!

Not sure why you can't find some sort of fine in the contracts sectin of your left hand cockpit screen.

Have you checked the contacts section in station services? Are there any fines listed there? Pay your fines, young man!

Where you attacked on your way into the station? One way to check is to zoom out of the letterbox at full speed and boost - if the local security do have a go at you, you should have a full head of steam to out run them till you can jump.

Not sure about perks from good rep, but I have seen others suggest things like no fines being assigned when they find you with illegal cargo.

The negative/red marker for your rep only shows your total rep change this session - your status (neutral/allied etc) is your actual rep with that faction.

Your rep seems to have two components - rep with local faction and rep with major faction (empire, fed etc).

If, say, you are in empire space, there will be one or more (probably two) local minor factions that are allied to the empire. Improve your rep with them by doing missions on the BB for those factions. The BB misisons will tell you how much rep you get for that mission - high, medium or low. The more rep points you mine, the higher your rep will get.

There seems to be only so much major faction rep you can get from just one system. Once you are allied with the local minor factions, it seems you farm little major faction rep for further missions. So if you want to grind major faction rep, get one minor faction rep to allied, then move to another system and repeat.

It seems fines earn you more negative rep than some good missions, so try and avoid he fines.

Good luck!

[buksida]

Thanks for the tips on reputations, will keep working on that.

Still dont know how to pay this fine though and clear the wanted status. Nothing in the contacts section.

[JohnLuke]

What shows up on your transactions tab? If you have a bounty listed there for the system you want to utilize, you can't pay it off until the timer reaches zero. At that point, it will say something like "clear on H-Jump" which means that when you jump next time the bounty is cleared. You will then have a fine at that system, which you can dock and pay.

The bounties look like this:



You can see that I have one that will clear in less than a day, and the other's are 5-6 days out. I do a lot of assassination missions so I typically have a few outstanding bounties floating around.

[buksida]

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Bounty there but no fine to pay under 'contacts'.

Looks like I'll have to high-tail it out of this system and return in two days.

[buksida]

As my rep gets better I've noticed the local system authority ships are now green on my scanner.

However while doing a smuggling mission one of them interdicted me and opened fire - naturally I had to kill him only to regain that wanted status!

Ho hum ... another system to avoid, at least I can go back to Q1 Eridani now though!

[Loriath]

As my rep gets better I've noticed the local system authority ships are now green on my scanner.

However while doing a smuggling mission one of them interdicted me and opened fire - naturally I had to kill him only to regain that wanted status!

Ho hum ... another system to avoid, at least I can go back to Q1 Eridani now though!

You lost the interdiction? Or submitted? I often get interdicted by Police ships and win the mini game. Have not lost one in the last week or two to the cops. The rest I tag the ship (closest Hostile) and usually submit and kill them. Only if I am outclassed or its the cops do I fly the mini game.

[buksida]

I submit to them usually, didnt realise it was a cop.

How can you tell what is trying to interdict you before it happens?

[Loriath]

I submit to them usually, didnt realise it was a cop.

How can you tell what is trying to interdict you before it happens?

You can't tell before, but if you have a button bound to closest hostile, hit it when the interdiction starts and it will lock onto the bad guy since he is the only one being hostile to you. I look quick for what ship is on the display and if I see wanted, then I decide to throttle. If its the cops, I play the game.

Made a booboo last night. Dropped into an outpost to hand over some illegal weapons and gain some rep and saw another ship, so I targeted it, and didn't realize it was a cop. But then in the chat window I saw "Stop for Scan Commander. You're keeping clean, I hope." and boosted before he scanned me and popped back into SC and moved away from the station then dropped back in. He was not in the new instance.
Could have been costly as it was a Vulture that was Competent and had shields. I don't think I would have won that battle.

If you keep an eye on ships in SC with you and suspect one is targeting you, change your heading away from your target station, if they match your move, then you are probably going to get interdicted. I have found that if there is a wing, especially police, and you evade, the second ship will follow you and not interdict but may drop in to station space with you and declare you illegal and open fire. This has been happening more and more lately.

[buksida]

Yep, have boosted away from a few scans recently! Will check target from now on before deciding to submit to the interdiction.

Seems odd though that you also get fined for salvaging cargo, I mean the owner is in a thousand pieces spinning across the cosmos and there are all these lovely canisters floating around, I guess they expect you just to leave them alone!