Strange Rep Loss

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On Cadar Pavonis, I buy (not sell) 6 Records, and lose -3 Rep with Cadar faction. Which is a drag, as I now can't buy a Pardon (from -5 down to -8). The Pardon was the very last thing I checked, before buying the Records.

Difficulty Demanding, Smuggler Class, level 4. No rank or Permit with Cadar.

The only Galaxy Conflict elements involving Cadar are: Alliance with Rychart, Trade Alliance with Steel Song. There is no Trade Embargo against Cadar from any Faction. The only thing I would expect to get me a Rep loss for Buying something, is a Trade Embargo. There are a bunch of other Galaxy Conflict events - are they some how indirectly causing a Rep loss with Cadar? Other relationships are:

Trade War Steel Song vs Rychart
Trade Embargo Steel Song vs Thulun (my home faction)
Trade War Steel Song vs De Valtos
Trade Embargo Javat vs De Valtos
Trade Embargo Javat vs Thulun
Solar War Thulun vs Rychart

I'm very confused by this. How did it happen?

Game version 3.5.9 Elite

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I changed to 3.6.0 continued buying and selling Records and did not see further Rep loss, nor Rep change with any other faction, just Rep increase.

I do think I discovered what the Smuggler Economic Records ability is! I bought 5 Records and they magically turned into 9 Records (nearly the same cash value), along with a "Trade Records Created" toaster!

[Cory Trese]

Trade Embargo is different than Trade War.

Trade Embargo is a rumor and has a Faction sponsor. It is like a Trade War but only vs. 1 planet.

I am puzzling over your list but I think it maybe a rumor.

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The Trade Embargoes listed are the Faction to Faction ones in Status - Galaxy - Conflict, not the single planet rumours. There were no rumours in effect on Cadar Pavonis at the time (that I could see).

I'm thinking maybe Buying the Records dropped my cash below the level at which I could afford the Pardon, so the Pardon greyed out. And I hallucinated the Rep loss. Since I can't reproduce any Rep loss, only the Pardon greying out, that seems the most likely explanation.

[Cory Trese]

I get this effect (hallucinations) sometimes due to sleep deprivation.

Do you like the records special ability?

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Yeah may be the same cause for me.

The records special ability ROCKS. I still don't quite understand what it's doing, but I like the effects. Sometimes it's cool when things are not documented in too much detail.