Hello,
I'm super new to the mod, but really enjoying the new story and difficulty. The only issue I've run into so far is in the inner core. I fly by the seat of my pants through several systems using cruise/engine kill to get past the alien ships, and then immediately upon entering a system called Weth I die instantly to what looks like a huge ship or weapons platform that's visible for a split second right after the warp animation ends.
I read some of the inner core guides available here and it sounds like my reputation with the Dom'Kavash should be neutral by default, and I think that's what my problem is- my rep with them has been red since going though Mandar the first time in the story and getting attacked by Dom'Kavash gunships. Is there any way to improve one's reputation with them so I don't die when entering Weth? I tried going to that system out past Utopia and killing a bunch of ancient drones like one guide says, but that doesn't affect the reputation at all. Does me already having started the inner core story mission lock reputations until the mission is complete? I encountered something similar earlier in the story where no matter how many Outcast ships I killed, my reputation stayed the exact same level of green the whole time.
I was also wondering, I see many people on the forum talking about Sol missions and Coalition missions. Did my story skip or something? I got to a section of the story where you first visit the Sol system, and all you do is follow a long waypoint path until you get to the Warp Anomaly, no other missions in Sol. And the once you get to Coalition space, the story had me get to Coalition HQ and then explore some systems until I discovered the Dom'Kavash Hypergate. Then, return to Sirius and use the Omega 3 hypergate to start exploring the inner core. Based on what everyone else is saying, I feel like I somehow missed something in Sol and Coalition areas.
Any advice is much appreciated.
Thank you!!!