im not sure if im just fashionably late or what, however i havent seen any posts about this so here goes.....i have discovered a neat trick....if you use the BINIlite utility in the editing utilities section of the website to extract the data/missions/empathy.ini file to a text document and leave is in the data/missions folder, you can remove the original empathy.ini file(making a backup first, of course)...and the game doesnt seem to mind...heres the cool part....without the original file your faction statuses will never change...doesnt matter how manner bounty hunters you kill, they will never hate you (assuming the didnt hate you to begin with)...anyway, the only way to change your faction status is to bribe a faction, however when you bride one, the faction you bride is the only one that changes, ie. opposing factions wont like you less for bribing their enemy.....not sure if this is new info or not, but i have almost everyone i want to be friends with full green at this point.....if this is new info to you, have fun with it!!