hmm. I never succeeded at it. The closest i got was only 4 Hostile factions out of all factions. the rest were either neutral or friendly.

I don't think it's possible to become FRIENDLY with all factions, but I have been able to go full neutral. Basically, I bribed every faction that doesn't improve from killing Xenos. Then I headed over to Nome and just pounded Xeno after Xeno (I got like 1000 fighter kills off this). This knocked my rep with every faction other than xenos to true neutral or better. After that, I just went and got a Xeno bribe. This knocked a couple Xeno-hating factions just BARELY over the edge into hostility, so I killed juat a few more Xenos (maybe 20). This was enough to knock the now-hostile factions back neutral without messing anyone else.

It can be done, but it's a complete and total pain in the butt, not to mention the game is pretty uninteresting when no one EVER attacks you.

One more thing - this arrangement is pretty bad if you intend to trade. The factions don't attack you directly, but they'll still demand you drop your cargo quite often.

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but they'll still demand you drop your cargo quite often.

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I really hate that... I do not respont to threats unless they are flying 12 Titans with lvl10 weapons, so because i hate them i kill'em.

I Don't want To end up in corpse early because YOU were daydreaming.. any bad faction pilot

Im currently trying to get everyone to hate me. has anyone succeeced in doin this?

Good luck getting everyone to hate you! If anything it will be even harder than getting everyone friendly - you can't bribe people to like you less
My flatmate got totally obsessed with getting neutral with all (which i'm sure was alot to do with reading spoilers before he had completed the game...) but it totally sucked. Like you guys were saying everyone is always demanding cargo from you and if you cant bolt you've gotta fight which buggers the whole thing up.

At one point around lvl24 I was neutral with all factions but the molly's, closest I got to having everyone neutral

Actually, being neutral to everyone does have one advantage. It allows you to explore the entire Sirius sector more or less unhindered (Nomads notwithstanding).

I know that not many of us are "tourists", but I find that I enjoy playing the game purely flying around into every little nook and cranny of every system. Having enemies taking shots at you really puts a damper on that experience, though, so I made myself neutral to all factions. As long as you carry no cargo, you're fine.

And because exploration can chew up your nanobots and shield batteries (dang radiation zones! ), you just need to do the occasional "big" trade run once to refresh your money supply. Even a relatively puny 70 cargo hold VHF will net you more that 100k just going one way, to mention nothing of the return trip. Or you can even mine stuff and sell them, though that is obviously more time consuming.

So, it really depends on your playing style. If you're into trading, then having totally neutral factions will get boring, yes. But if you're into exploration like me, then having all factions neutral is very useful.

I guess after I'm done with exploration, I'll mess up my factions again and start to have fun blasting away at others *cackle*.

-- The Haen.

Thanx
I have tried bribing, but it seems that I can never find the bribe. I am having a major problem with the junkers. It seems that I try and bribe them, but The briber is from the liberty rogues. Then I try to bribe the rogues, and he is a junker. Also, I am somehow actually friendly with the xenos. So if I read this right, I can go xeno hunting and get most of the factions at least nuetral with me? Then I go bribe xenos, and then kill a few more, and all will be nuetral? Thanx I will try this.

Carry no cargo? Doh! Should have really though of that...
Exploration is a hassle when you're hostile with peeps. After SP i quickly became friendly/neutral with BHG, Corsairs, Outscast, Hessians, IMG etc which suited me fine till i had explored all the frontier systems. Then i had to go back to police space where every bugger and his uncle were gunning for me. At first i thought it was funny 'cause they were in such rust buckets but when u cant dock etc. it is a major drag.
BTW MacLeod : Are you trying to get neutral with junkers as part of your quest to become neutral with all or is there something specific you want from them? I have noticed quite a few people asking how to get friendly with junkers and wondered why.

by the way, wouldn't it be easier to make everyone hostile at you? Just shoot every friendly/neutral ships, planets, and bases....

If you want to make all the criminal factions like you in one fell swoop, make war on the bounty hunters. I blew up their storage facilities in Leeds(? I think) and it's been more fun ever since.

The only problems are:

1) bounty hunters are everywhere, and better equipped than a lot of factions (hammerheads are nasty, at least compared to most NPC encounters), but at least you make a good living selling old Buckshots and Wasp launchers.

2) Interspace Commerce tips over into hostile if you're buddies with all the crooks. This makes it rather difficult to land on some planets (New London comes to mind), as they have stations in orbit that go hostile and take the police and navy with them, along with the docking rings ...

to get neutral with most factions i start with destroying some police depots just before manhatten, continuing with dse depots.

if u get hostile to any faction, destroy some xenos to increase reps (u can increase your rep with the xenos very easily, indeed it inreases easier than decreases )

and bribe the junkers and youre almost done

yea i was wondering that... i bribed the Corsairs and did some missions with them against the Bounty Hunters, then suddenly my rep with the Xenos was nearly maxed... which leads me to my question...

has anyone been able to get their rep for any faction the entire way up or down? I mean... if you notice (or maybe it's just me), there's always one little box left in the meter, it never gets all the way full...

for awhile i was thinking that if the meter becomes fully friendly, they'd be so nice they would say hi to you if you passed by and maybe even gave you gifts

and if the meter gets fully hostile, the first squads would call in stronger backups and suddenly you'd be in a firefight with like 10 enemy fighters that are double the level of what their supposed to be... haha... wouldn't that be interesting?

The reason I mention the junkers is because I went to almost all of the bases listed for bribes to the lane hackers, rogues, and LWB, and I coudn't find any bribes, but I always saw a junker who had nothng to say, which makes me think that the junker was the one who offered the bribe, once I was at least nuetral with them. I can't seem to bribe these three factions, because it seems that all the bribes are with the other two factions.