License problems

I am having some problems those days with finding out players RP around me...
I see some pirates appear green to me, and if I don't scan systematically cargo to check
license I end up with surprises...

(despite the obvious RP license rule breaking in this exemple, this guy is green to me... is that normal?)
note: I have police license mounted

Green/red status can be according to fraction affiliation (the one what is shown above ship) and your rep with this fraction.

yup, you are affiliated with the faction you have the best rep with (F8).

If you have LSF and the player has Liberty Navy its going to be green (NPC factions are allied)
If you got GMG and the other has Bretonia Armed Forces, its goign to be white (neutral)
If you are Kusari Police and he's Blood Dragon you'll be seen as red.

Its the NPC rep that applies and not the licenses...

sucky... I do not really care about NPC faction when I meet a player!

Excuse me, may I post a possible solution here?



Maybe the picture b contains the solution.

if yo urefer to mixing licenses it's illegal.

2 licenses slots exist for 2 different kind of license : 1 for RP the other for ASF/CSF license.

Think of it : you cannot be police and pirate at the same time, nor being merc and police cause if you get hired by pirates you can no longer enforce the law...

Sorry, Arrow, but I have to disagree. Whether or not another player is red is dependant on what your reputation with their affiliation is. Say, for example, a new player crosses a DK affiliated player, it'll be red. Say I have coalition and I see someone with DK but I've gotten the rep fix, the DK will be green/white.

I was thinking it would have been great if each RP faction had its own reputation... like for example if you are a cop, you would see a pirate red to you, or maybe a mercenary neutral... etc...
I do not really see the point of mounting a license if you need to be standing right in front of a pirate to see its little rhombus on it (usually dead before getting that close!)

@SEQ : my bad

@FAABY : its true that identifying threats s hard but that's why we must always be on our gaurds for the inexpected ! Treat ppl you don't know as suspect and if they are friendly lwoer your guard as muc has you fee lthe danger is passed...

Well, To answer the Red white green thing, We should have the following,
All Mercs are In a affilation of Bounty hunters, or whichever NPC clan fits them best.
Ours, would be the order but I don't know how to be affiliated with them..... Pirates could be any pirate, and any RP chars should be allies/enemys with the NPC's they are ment to. It'll take some time but still, it'll work.

or just dont care about this vanilla FL MP feature ?

I like the Admiral's idea!

sa_admin wrote:yup, you are affiliated with the faction you have the best rep with (F8).

If you have LSF and the player has Liberty Navy its going to be green (NPC factions are allied)
If you got GMG and the other has Bretonia Armed Forces, its goign to be white (neutral)
If you are Kusari Police and he's Blood Dragon you'll be seen as red.

Its the NPC rep that applies and not the licenses...

Speaking about reputations, I wanted to switch from Navy to ASF (second on list), so I thought
about killing 1 or 2 navy guys to have reputations lowered a bit so ASF would become first,
but here is what happened in the end:



Navy reputation lowered but it is still first?
I restarted the game to see if it was a bug or needed refresh, but it did not change...

o.O

Hmmm...I know that I've seen people with the Ancients affiliation before their name...so it SHOULD be possible to have a non-vanilla affiliation.

I was considering making my "main engagement" ASF char have the ASF affiliation if possible.

I believe that that character is currently Bretonia Armed Forces affiliation, but I'll see what I can figure out.

Also...I can edit my SP save file to have ASF as full green, and make every other faction neutral or hostile to see if it will give me ASF affiliation.

It's entirely possible that OP doesn't have ASF/CSF in the list of possible Affiliations.

Only 20 ways to find out....and I'm going to try everything except for "ask op".

You need to get your affiliated faction about three bars below max before you lose that affiliation and go to the next one. Keep killing Navy, Faaby. It'll happen.

Thanks for the tip Seqan, will try that then

Well, that did not work out...

Navy reputation did drop down after a few more kills, but ASF did not replace it (3rd on list took over)... I am now Kurari and ASF rep still 2nd *sigh*

I think I prefered Navy in the end LOL

Of course not... you have to increase ASF's rep for that to happen.

ASF have nothing to do with Navy or many other NPCs.... but they do care about some...


If you notice, Corsairs/Outcasts are CSF's allies... but who fight along with ASF ?

you mean that her ASF rep went down with the navy one ? lol ! I havent seen that one coming

ASF did not go down. Navy, LSF, Police did, but what I meant is that when 1st rep went down, it is not the second on the list that took over but the 3rd... Like if ASF could not become first no matter what... Unless someone saw that tag already?

i think i saw some ASF players.... cannot guarantee tho...

I must affirm that. There are some ASF afflicted players in-game although I cannot say how they did that...(YET!).