Wasn't enough room on google's thing to post my full idea.
If you shoot a shop, the trading guild comes to defend it. If you shoot it again in another ship or with hand gun, new AI comes and old AI stays dormant. Make all trade guild AI hostile to the player and shoot no matter what they are in. Also, if you shoot shops often enough, have a permanent enemy AI set up.
Like in freelancer, if you comit enough bad deeds towards a guild, they shoot you on sight no matter where you are and what you do until you do missions for them to make them happy or pay off the right people. So if you attack a shop, -0.1 standing with trade guild. If you attack a trade guild member, -0.2 standing each one killed, -0.05 for just shooting at one. Once you are -5, they will always shoot you no matter where you are or where you go if they are in your vicinity. Only way to bring this down should be to pay credits to the NPC shops. "Raise your standings with our guild? +0.1 standings per 100,000 credits." with a maximum of +10 standing, which may possibly even offer some slight discounts or something, maybe not.
Find my suggestion somewhere here and vote on it when it becomes available. I dunno how to direct link my suggestion: http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=20951b&t=20951b.40&f=20951b.6c7cfd
Possible direct link: http://www.google.com/moderator/#8/e=20951b&q=20951b.6cc5a7&v=4
If you shoot a shop, the trading guild comes to defend it. If you shoot it again in another ship or with hand gun, new AI comes and old AI stays dormant. Make all trade guild AI hostile to the player and shoot no matter what they are in. Also, if you shoot shops often enough, have a permanent enemy AI set up.
Like in freelancer, if you comit enough bad deeds towards a guild, they shoot you on sight no matter where you are and what you do until you do missions for them to make them happy or pay off the right people. So if you attack a shop, -0.1 standing with trade guild. If you attack a trade guild member, -0.2 standing each one killed, -0.05 for just shooting at one. Once you are -5, they will always shoot you no matter where you are or where you go if they are in your vicinity. Only way to bring this down should be to pay credits to the NPC shops. "Raise your standings with our guild? +0.1 standings per 100,000 credits." with a maximum of +10 standing, which may possibly even offer some slight discounts or something, maybe not.
Find my suggestion somewhere here and vote on it when it becomes available. I dunno how to direct link my suggestion: http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=20951b&t=20951b.40&f=20951b.6c7cfd
Possible direct link: http://www.google.com/moderator/#8/e=20951b&q=20951b.6cc5a7&v=4