Pull up the rep list on the hud, it gives a list of their enemys, hunt them and increase rep for free.

thats the thing, the zoners HAVE no enemies.
theyre friendly with a couple of groups but thats it. I read all about them in a seperate thread, and even though certain groups arent listed as allies if u attack them then u will lose rep with the zoners too :S

other independant groups like the bounty hunters, the IMG and the GMG. all of which i kill for credits. so i really really need the guy who fixes my rep with them

pretty much every freeport will have a zoner bribe- you just have to keep trying the bar

Chris Bates

The Zoners supposedly are neutral, but you will find that as your rep goes bad with the Bounty Hunters, it also goes down with the Zoners. There is obviously a connection they are not talking about.

What I normally do is top up my rep with the Zoners as soon as it goes out of the green. Of course, when I once managed to get the Bounty Hunters really in the red with me, the Zoners wouldn't even let me land on a freeport!

There is no zoner bribe, and when you add one - you know why. The text is standard generated text with Freelancer, so it says "This will make you unpopular with , , and with ."

It looks like crumpet, so unless a mod makes the zoners have a few enemies (just set their rep changes to be against each other), then it's nerfed the zoner rep bribing chances

^ sorry chips but i couldnt understand what u just said...

Okay, in the game the reps part works off of the relationships the factions have with others. Its a tad bit more complicated as there are two files, and it only works off the rep changes (not the initial rep values) in the game. Whilst factions may hate each other, their feelings towards you can change dependant upon what you do. This is where the bribes text finds out whom your bribe will annoy. They look down to see whom gets upset if you bribe/do missions for the faction, and then sticks their names in.

For instance, if you take a look at the bounty hunters, the text will be generated by checking out who gets upset if you do things for bounty hunters (missions, bribes etc) and finds out its the corsairs, outcasts and liberty rogues whom get the most upset (I can't actually remember if it is, but this is for examples sake). This means that those faction names appear in the bribe text as the people that the bribe will piss off. The text will be something like this:
"You should know that %S%, %S% and %S% will look down upon our transaction."
The corsairs, outcasts and liberty rogues get put into those places (its just a reference to the names of three factions that get annoyed is all), so that it turns out like "You should know that the Corsairs, Outcasts and the Liberty Rogues will look down upon our transaction."

The Zoners don't annoy anyone though, no-one gets annoyed if you do them favours.This means that the text of "You should know that %S%, %S% and %S% will look down upon our transaction" will not find any names to implement in the bribe, so the bribe will appear on screen without any names in those spaces.

hence it looks like:
"You should know that , , and will look down upon our transaction" instead. To fix this they needed to make three factions get annoyed with the Zoners, but that defeats the whole Zoners raison d'etre - a completely neutral and universely loved faction. I think that is why they didn't make any Zoners bribes at all, this coupled with the idea that although the Xenos are terrorists, it shouldn't be such that you can kill them to make everyone love you without recompense. Hence, they make it so that if you kill too many of them, the Zoners start to dislike you instead. Kinda balances out somewhat, you cannot abuse the Xenos too much in order to make everyone love you, as the Zoners (whom you cannot fix your rep with afterwards) will hate you.

K - now that was really long.

ok thanks for spelling it out for me, but i do remember ive found a rep-guy for the zoners. ive done it before on a multiplayer server, running 1.0, no mods or anything. I need to find that guy again is what im saying.

EDIT : alright guys i visites freeport 9 and found a zoner straight away who would fix my rep. then i found another on freeport 5 ^_^

sweet.

oh and the eagle is everythign i imagined it would be....totally sweet

Edited by - redreaver on 5/19/2006 2:47:45 AM