Faction
Lower Levels
Workers, parents, clinic doctors, inventors and scavengers: the Lower Levels send most of the people who walk up to your counter. They cannot pay much, their trade moves standing at two-thirds of the usual rate, and they punish a betrayal harder than anyone else on the station.
At a glance
- Who they are
- Your neighbours on the lower decks, and the bulk of your daily customers.
- Notable reward
- Pillar of the Lower Levels at +100: 15% off from Joe Wild and Dr. Jackson
- Notable penalty
- Marked at −60: thieves target you more and insurance costs double
- Ending at −100
- Lynched
Medicine, food and supplies. Their doctors carry a clinic budget for medical supplies, and their inventors look for Materials, Energy Cells, Tools and Modules.
What moves standing
| What happens | Standing change |
|---|---|
| Any trade with a Lower Levels customer | Standard rate, then ×0.66 |
| The Food Bank Supplier | ×3, the best return per Credit with this faction |
| Giving a Naloxgone Injector away | +1 |
| Charging for a Naloxgone Injector | −4 |
| Shooting a confirmed Aug | +2 |
| Shooting an ordinary customer | −15, the heaviest civilian penalty of any faction |
| Reporting a Lower Levels customer | −8, then 2 more each time, to a floor of −20 |
| Confronting a customer and being wrong | −2 |
| The blackmailer being caught | −30 |
Perk ladder
| Standing | Perk | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| +100 | Pillar of the Lower Levels | Joe Wild and Dr. Jackson give you a 15% discount. |
| +80 | Tight Lips | Contraband sold to Lower Levels customers leaves only half its value as evidence. |
| +60 | Word on the Street | Neighbours tip you off about upcoming events now and then. |
| +40 | Rare Goods | New customer types start bringing rare and contraband goods to sell. |
| +20 | Referral | One extra random customer walks in every day. |
| −20 | Poor Reviews | One random customer fewer walks in every day. |
| −40 | Mistrusted | Lower Levels customers stop offering you contraband. |
| −60 | Marked | Thieves pick your shop more often, and insurance costs twice as much. |
| −80 | Shunned | Suppliers stop taking your calls, and Dr. Jackson only visits in special circumstances. |
| −100 | Mob Justice | A mob storms the shop, strips it and throws you out of the airlock. |
Worth knowing
- Lower Levels customers make up 85 of the 125 customer types the game can build, and 52 of those are scavengers.
- Six of the eight faces on the wanted list are Lower Levels, so most bounties you collect are paid for with neighbourhood standing.
- An Alarm Transmitter Module broadcast never reaches the Lower Levels.
- Gang wars and riots push up demand for medical supplies, food and weapons, while a worker strike disrupts food and water.
