Being enemies with the Bounty Hunters is a bad idea. I think you can get bribe in several systems. Yanagi Station in Sigma 13 is one of them.

You picked the wrong enemies. Ok, beating Mollys will help a bit, killing Xenos will help even less.

The main enemies of the Corsairs are the Red Hessians and the Outcasts. (Besides the regular Bounty Hunters, police, navy and shipping companies of course).

If you want some missions against the Red Hessians (to improve your reputation with the Corsairs), head down to Omicron Theta, Freeport 9. I recall there being a bunch of Bounty Hunter missions against Red Hessians.

esun wrote:

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If you want some missions against the Red Hessians (to improve your reputation with the Corsairs), head down to Omicron Theta, Freeport 9. I recall there being a bunch of Bounty Hunter missions against Red Hessians.

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Hmm....there are a couple of things wrong with that statement:

1) Not only is Omicron Theta out of the Red Hessians' territory...it is way out of their territory. The only factions you're gonna find there are the Corsairs, and Bounty Hunters, and the Zoners. All the Bounty Hunter missions there deal with the Corsairs, so taking them will only drop your rep with them, not help improve them!

2) Taking Bounty Hunter missions against the Red Hessians to improve your rep with the Corsairs is a bad idea. Why? You may have a small rep gain because you destroy Hessian ships, but any such gain is wiped out and turned into a loss because of the rep you'll lose with the Corsairs because you helped the Bounty Hunters' Guild.

Anyway, the original strategy of killing Xenos and Mollys to improve Corsairs rep is flawed. Killing Xenos has absolutely no impact with the Corsairs (check out my sticky near the top of the forum). Killing Mollys does have a small positive impact with the Corsairs, but if you have been killing Mollys by taking missions from the Bretonian Police or Bretonian Armed Forces, then your rep gain by killing Mollys is wiped out by the rep lost due to you helping out the Bretonian law enforcement agencies.

As other posters stated, though, a good way to gain rep with the Corsairs is to kill Outcasts and Hessians. If you can help it, kill them without taking missions from anybody -- just fly around Rheinland blowing up any Hessians that you see, or do the same for the Outcasts in Liberty or the Tau Border Worlds. Your rep should increase quickly enough.

Good luck!

-- The Haen.

Edit: clarified last paragraph


Edited by - Haenlomal on 28-04-2003 17:06:20

OK, Here's my foolproof Corsair system:

Go to Colorado, hang around Ouray Base and kill Xenos to get Silver
and good reps with just about everyone EXCEPT the Zoners.
Watch the Zoner rep carefully. Stop when they are going negative.
Go to Kepler, Bribe the Zoners, return & repeat as needed.
Then go hang around Dublin's Arranmore Base and kill Mollys.
(Do NOT take missions, just hunt them on your own) Kill Mollys
(Mining Gold between waves) until Bretonian reps are Green and
Corsairs are Neutral. Save. Now go to Freeport 1 in Omega 3 and
make The Corsair Bribe. Look at your reps, you should be Neutral
with the Bretonian authorities; if they're Hostile you didn't kill
enough Mollys. Depending on your current rep with the Outcasts,
IMG might be Hostile too, which is bad. In either case, go back
to your save and tweak the reps. If you do this right, the only
new Hostile you will see is Bundschuh. Bundschuh are sympathetic
to Xenos & Mollys, but unlike Zoners their opinion don't matter
Red Hessians might also be Hostile, depending on your rep before
the bribe, but this doesn't matter either since to get better
rep with Corsairs you may be taking missions against them.
(Much safer than taking Corsair missions against Bounty Hunters!)

Corsairs are good for weapons & shields, but I don't like the Titan.

Corsairs: If you are interested in the Storyline, enquire about their
two secrets _before_ you get full green with them. Once you get
full green they just drop hints you should leave. Their Secrets are
revealing, but not as creepy as the Outcast Secrets.

I have taken missions against Red Hessians at the Solarius Station in one of the Omega systems. (Solarius is owned by Daumann). Gives approx. one half pin of Corsair reputation per mission.

......go to new berlin. take missions against red hessians. shoot down a few bounty hunters too. once the corsairs are neutral, dock in their base and bribe

"I have taken missions against Red Hessians at the Solarius Station in one of the Omega systems. (Solarius is owned by Daumann). Gives approx. one half pin of Corsair reputation per mission."

Missions for Corsairs in Cadiz should earn more.

"Got anything for me?" - Trent, A.K.A. 'Mr. Eloquent'

Errm, Frobozz. The subject of this discussion is "They don't like me". Ever tried getting missions from the Corsairs when they didn't like you?

Guess not, since you are still alive.

You have to make them at least mid-neutral first. And THAT can be accomplished taking missions at the Solarius Station.

A lot of good info here. I got Good to Neutral with all the factions except the GC and LWB by killing Bounty Hunters. I based on the Kusari Battleship about 10K from Deshima Station and would cruise over to the station and blow away their supply depot and tractor in the goods. They never sent out many attackers so I would waste the ones they sent and while away the time between waves by blowing away the station's guns. Occassionally I went back to the battleship and unloaded and then would repeat. It took about an hour and all the factions went from heavy red to mid white/green. I can live with the Bounty Hunters not liking me. I'm not bothered by lane disruptions and can cruise through local disputes. If I want to fight, I go mining Diamonds in Dresden and know that the Bounty Hunters will soon show up. I can make almost as much money from their tractored guns as I do from the diamonds. BTW, you can also mine artifacts/Bounty Hunters in Omicron Gamma Planet Crete and ease up north a little and collect a few Nomad scalps.

I don't really run this house, but I have an understanding with the woman who does.

Gnavpot,

I made 2 postings. First how to go from red 2 green,
then how to go *very* green by hunting Red Hessians.

"Got anything for me?" - Trent, A.K.A. 'Mr. Eloquent'

Dresden. Follow the Trade Lane to the end (a Research base that likes Niobium) then fly "north" (up on the Nav Map) to the Volcanic Asteroid Field you find and smack the Hessians.

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That all seems like a helluva lot of work, when you finish the sp campaign you end up on manhattan, from there i take off, set my scanners to show all, go destroy the dse storage depot's and loot the h-fuel. Head to mactan base in magellan, flog h-fuel. Take jumphole to Leeds, shoot some molly's on the way to cambridge, finally shoot the police a little bit and you should be well neutral with corsairs but still negative. Make sure you've looted some h-fuel/engine components, whip out the patrol path map, head to wreck on the way to omega-5 jumphole just behind planet cambridge.

wahey, you arrive in omega-5 right beside cadiz base, go to bar, bribe for corsairs, slay some hessians, bribe for hessians, done

Move on and get your ship and weapons and loot in peace