Okay, the Zoner tag is almost impossible to get. My trader is neutral to EVERYONE. Then I went to FP9, bought a bribe, and I'm STILL 2 bars from high enough to buy the bribe. There needs to be a way to get the ID easier. Make Xenos an enemy of Zoners maybe? We need something that will higher their rep. Making it hostile to Xenos along with everyone else will 1.) get Zoner rep up enough to get the ID, and 2.) make everyone neutral to you, which is what the Zoners have. So it would accomplish the two things you are supposed to accomplish to get the ID, but still ALLOWS you to get the ID. I have tried getting the ID with 4 of my 8 AW chars. Not one can get it. I've bought at least 12 bribes for other factions and another 4 for Zoners at FP9 with my Ableben character. Still can't get the thing. There is a requirement that a person must have the ID for that faction before joining the player faction it is assigned. Well if it isn't possible to get that ID they cannot join. Or if it is possible but takes 2 months to get the exact rep you need they'll lose interest. I am currently flying around with all Freelancer IDs on my AW ships, because there is no possible way my ships can get the ID. Lowering the ID requirement to buy it only works if we are able to get even that far. The Zoners barely get green before you cannot get them any higher. Maybe even make them get rep for killing nomads. But there needs to be some way to higher the rep.
I was talking to a potential recruit today, and I had to tell him he needed to go around making everyone neutral before I could even recruit him. That'll get me what, 1 in 20 people I try to recruit? And I cannot change factions without having to change Home systems and possibly the faction's whole purpose.