Post by spike on Mar 2, 2011 9:39:19 GMT -5
It still appears to be possible to gain Faction standing by sitting at a Faction planet, buying up spare Weapons/Electronics/Artifacts, and then immediately selling them back (usually for a small loss, depending on Negotiation skill I guess).
I realise it's hard to work around this since it requires the game to remember where the items came from.
One solution might be to maintain a historic sell-minus-buy tally for each Faction for each restricted item type. You only gain Faction standing when your net 'sell' position increases. Kind of clunky. At lower levels of Negotiation, maybe the financial loss is enough of a balancing factor. For high levels of Negotiation, maybe this 'exploit' is desired beneficial consequence of having the ability to sell ice to Eskimos - so maybe no fix is needed?
I realise it's hard to work around this since it requires the game to remember where the items came from.
One solution might be to maintain a historic sell-minus-buy tally for each Faction for each restricted item type. You only gain Faction standing when your net 'sell' position increases. Kind of clunky. At lower levels of Negotiation, maybe the financial loss is enough of a balancing factor. For high levels of Negotiation, maybe this 'exploit' is desired beneficial consequence of having the ability to sell ice to Eskimos - so maybe no fix is needed?
