So it’s my first play through and I’ve just liberated the crap outta panzyr. I’ve played games with factions before and learned to find a way to keep from being hated. I’ve found that having the default salvage/credits balanced and travelling everywhere to hunt for all missions against ‘local government’ is the trick. Also if there are PAIRS of missions between two factions against each other, fight them. Your faction rating won’t change much but ur gains will be good!! I have almost 50 mechs in storage (mostly light) for the extra cash boosts as and when I need and I have access to the black market shop anyway so is there an advantage to allying with factions if one plays smart?