Better stay friendly with the Corsairs. They have much better ships, especially in the outskirts.

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"Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles
which every man of every faith can embrace. " - Murphy MacManus

Depends on what you want really, Some ppl get friendly with most every faction, mostly to trade. If you are looking at doing high profit missions, then only corsairs and outcasts go over 100k, if memory holds.

Corsairs will give you access to more bases, and also access to the unknown jumphole with only bounty hunters to contend with.

Corsairs are much more powerful, so it depends on if you're looking for a powerful ally, or a powerful enemy

I was enemies with both, but then I got ambushed by a group of Hessians and they started coming in waves.

Next time I checked, the Corsairs love me
So I've stayed on their side

It all depends on which character I use. The most eventful is extremely friendly with the corsairs, though the hessians and boutny hunters hate him. There's nothing like jumping through a warp gate to have 20 hammerheads and 20 sabres all stop fighting eachother to jump me.

As a general rule I like staying friendly with the corsairs, though sometimes the bounty hunters are a harder enemy to contend with than corsairs and hessians both. (They come out of the woodwork in their hammerheads by the thousands at the most inopportune times.)

I got the Hessians, Corsairs, Outcasts and the Hunters to be neutral or allied with me. ALso managed to get most of the other criminal factions on good terms from killing transports. Oh sure I can't set foot near any house controlled planet or station without setting off the best light show you will ever see but I consider it worth it to have no enemies in the outer fringes.

The bounty hunters love me...The Rogues hate me, but who cares what they think anyway?

Either way, I'm thinking it's high time I fixed my rep with the outlaw factions again...I'm getting the urge to explore, anc certain systems are effectively off-limits unless you're buddies with the bad guys. I won't ruin my rep with my friends to do it(Especially not DSE...since I've designated Pittsburgh as "home base", I'd go insane if they ever went hostile), but a little Liberty Lane-hacking is in order.



Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless

Officer: "Freelancer, what happened to the transport you were escorting?"
Me: "He told me my ship looked wierd...I invited him to have intimate relations with my SunSlayer"

humm..okay,i'll join the corsairs or ,at least, get neutral with 'em. but the hessians are more sympathic to,me 'cause they "live" ina german sytem any i am also german...

Euh...signature?

Let's see, the Corsairs have the best shield you can buy, the best pulse weapon (Tizona's), and a tank of a fighter. Currently, all of my characters have the Corsairs as like the 6th friendliest faction (right next to the bounty hunters). Soooooo, my character can fly through Omikron Theta-Gamma pop out of a jump hole and watch as my wingman has to do some serious evading to avoid getting shot down by Corsairs/Bounty Hunters/both. Kinda interesting that way. Cheers.