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Thread: Trying to buy faction

haristyles
Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:57 pm
#1

Hey all, I'm fairly new to smuggler and I have a problem. I am trying to buy Imp faction and can't. I have declared and have 600 Imp FP, have taken a promotion, have7 Rebel FP and got to 7 by "selling" info to a recruiter, I had 350+. At first I got the message about being a "known rebel sympathizer" and now get a message that I have "done enough for now". What am I doing wrong?


Thanks for any help.


Edit* Ok, I reread the FAQ on buying FP but am confused about something, it say if I have over 500pts I need to delegate it, I was delegated 2200 points by another smuggler yesterday, how do I get to the point of being able to buy/delegate thousands of points? Do I need to be a really high rank?

Message Edited by haristyles on 01-22-2005 08:59 PM




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WranglerDekar
Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:03 pm
#2
you can never buy more than a total accumulated of 500 more or less...they delegate it because they ran missions and had that 2200 saved up for delegation. you can only buy small stacks from recruiters and even then no more than a total of 500 accumulated...



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haristyles
Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:06 pm
#3
Thanks, I just re-re-read the post and saw the HUGE YELLOW PART about 500pts, so in order to delegate say 50k xp, I need to delegate 500fp 100 times. Is this right?




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WedgeStarkiller
Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:30 pm
#4
That's about the gist of it, most people have macros set up to delegate 250 at a time since you can only buy up to 500 and must always have 200 in order to stay in the faction. If you look through the smuggler guide stickies there is a great guide to buying/selling linked there.




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Nicolas_Frost
Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:54 pm
#5




haristyles wrote:

Thanks, I just re-re-read the post and saw the HUGE YELLOW PART about 500pts, so in order to delegate say 50k xp, I need to delegate 500fp 100 times. Is this right?






Actually, you'd need to delegate250 faction points(a loss of 295 faction each time) 169 times(totals to 49855 faction points), and145 faction points once, to get the fifty thousand taken care of, and that's at the rank of Colonel. You're not allowed to delegate faction to where you leave yourself below 200 faction points.


And that's assuming you can figure out how to keep yourself at least 295 faction points over the 200 faction point minimum, or at 495 faction points.




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haristyles
Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:15 pm
#6
Thanks fo rthe help guys, they need to fix this low cap thing, delegating 1k-5k per turn would be so much better.




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Maxil
Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:10 pm
#7
it's a pain but if you got a macro set up shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes, tho it takes some testing to tweak to your specifics.



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Stawei_Idow
Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:36 pm
#8
Nicolas_Frost wrote:

Actually, you'd need to delegate 250 faction points(a loss of 295 faction each time) 169 times(totals to 49855 faction points), and 145 faction points once, to get the fifty thousand taken care of, and that's at the rank of Colonel. You're not allowed to delegate faction to where you leave yourself below 200 faction points.




either i don't know how faction delegating works, or this is wrong.

shouldnt you have to delegate 250pts 200 times to make 50k?
that would come out to 50k delegated and another 9k in ratio cost.




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Nicolas_Frost
Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:12 am
#9




Stawei_Idow wrote:



Nicolas_Frost wrote:


Actually, you'd need to delegate 250 faction points(a loss of 295 faction each time) 169 times(totals to 49855 faction points), and 145 faction points once, to get the fifty thousand taken care of, and that's at the rank of Colonel. You're not allowed to delegate faction to where you leave yourself below 200 faction points.






either i don't know how faction delegating works, or this is wrong.

shouldnt you have to delegate 250pts 200 times to make 50k?
that would come out to 50k delegated and another 9k in ratio cost.




I probably made a mistake somewhere when working the math in my head. I think I was at work(like now) when I posted. Lemme look over the math in this rare moment I don't have to take care of something.


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Yeah, you're right. I musta tried to divide 295 into 50000 instead of 250. I do that on occasion when I'm in a hurry. My mind likes to try combine steps to make things quicker.


I lucked out that one time a few years ago when I woke up and started to pour cereal and milk into the toilet bowl, thenrealized what I was about to do.


Essentially, I tried to combine the steps of figuring what islost from delegationand figuring how much to delegate + the number of times to delegate.



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BloodMonk
Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:46 am
#10
make life easy on yourself and delegate 100 EACH TIME you buy 125 (or more if you're reb).


I have a macro which buy 125, then delegates 100, then a macro which loops that macro 5 times, then one for 2k and 10k


The beauty is that although you will eventually get over 500 (from the 7fp surples per buy/delegate cycle) it won't matter, as the macro still delegates 100 at the end (putting you back well under 500).


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Nicolas_Frost
Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:58 am
#11
I was talking about selling faction manually.



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BloodMonk
Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:45 am
#12
ehe unless your health insurance covers RSI don't do it manually


And even it's easier with a micro macro...just /del 100 customername


hit the button everytime you bought some



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korvass
Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:05 am
#13
Pfft, macros are for the weak




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