Talk:Reputation/@comment-219.232.172.12-20200614223309

I’ve just found a glitch with which you may deplete your reputation quickly with a faction when you are playing Extreme or just do not have adequate weapon to fight a faction: an EMP primary weapon, best with a cloaking device. First, fire it at a neutral target of the faction you want to provoke, it will instantly become a hostile. Then keep shooting. After totally immobilizing his or her ship, stop your engine and just keep shooting. You’ll find that the ship’s EMP capacity bar does not grow back, and every shot counts as a time of paralyzing a ship, which quickly depletes your reputation, since every single shot from your EMP blaster weights as much as destroying a ship. I tried this on a Terran freighter in Nivelian space when I accidentally become the enemy of Vossk, and Vossk becomes friendly. Note that a cloak is recommended since if you do this in a horde of neutrals they will all turn red. If you have neither cloak or good weapon you may just want to run like hell, ‘cuz they won’t know the fact that an anonymous Fandom user told Keith the artifice.