I'm trying to do one of those missions where a government spontaneously hates you. However, the darndest thing happens.

Okay, so I have a mission: "go here". Comp gov: 128 (Federation), Comp reward: -3000.
The systems say "Fugitive" as my status. That's fine, however, they're all still blue, they'll let me land, and none of the fed ships attack me. I checked; the dudes and spobs are all set to 128. This should be more than enough to incur their ire. Does anyone know what's the deal?

If I have to, I'll post a pilot file/log/plug excerpt, but I was wondering if anyone has an idea off the bat.

Thanks in advance!

Knight of the Red Branch rank perhaps?

I don't think the KOTRB rank has anything to do with the Feds, only the Wild Geese. That said, I've got nothing, n64mon, sorry.

Any one of

ränk 128: Federation Naval Rank of Commander;Fed 1
ränk 129: Plenipotentiary Federation Ambassador to the Polaris Government;Fed 2
ränk 149: Director of the Bureau of Internal Investigation

Or any ränk added by a plug-in that's flagged as "Government will not automatically attack players with this rank" and "Government will always let players with this rank land" for gövt 128.

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EVN Resources: ConText 1.0.0
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Analysed: 2/13/10 at 12:06 PM

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1 : Nova Data 2
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Full EVN Resource Listing:
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Total Resources Found : 31
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ränk Found : 31
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Resource Duplicates by Type:
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• Begin ränk
"Type" "ID" "Name" "File" "Weight" "Govt" "PriceMod" "Salary" "SalaryCap" "Contributes0" "Contributes1" "flags" "ConvName" "ShortName" "EOR"
ränk 128 "Federation Naval Rank of Commander;Fed 1" "Nova Data 2" 1 128 85 200 0 0x0000007B 0x00000000 0x0B08 "•"
ränk 129 "Plenipotentiary Federation Ambassador to the Polaris Government;Fed 2" "Nova Data 2" 30 128 60 500 0 0x000001FF 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 130 "Ory'hara;Pol 1" "Nova Data 2" 2 130 80 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 131 "T5; Vell-os 1" "Nova Data 2" 2 136 100 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 132 "T4; Vell-os 2" "Nova Data 2" 2 136 100 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 133 "T3; Vell-os 3" "Nova Data 2" 2 136 100 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 134 "T2; Vell-os 4" "Nova Data 2" 2 136 100 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 135 "T1; Vell-os 5" "Nova Data 2" 2 136 100 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 136 "T0; Vell-os 6" "Nova Data 2" 2 136 100 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 137 "Ory-Hara; Rebel 1" "Nova Data 2" 2 141 80 150 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0B08 "•"
ränk 138 "Knight of Red Branch; Wild Geese 1" "Nova Data 2" 20 144 50 750 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 139 "Warrior of the Heraan House; Auroran 1" "Nova Data 2" 1 135 95 150 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0B08 "•"
ränk 140 "KarHallarn: Leader of the pack; Auroran 2" "Nova Data 2" 2 135 80 250 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 141 "Thurokiir of the Heraan House; Auroran 3" "Nova Data 2" 3 135 50 500 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 142 "Thurokiir of the First House; Auroran 4" "Nova Data 2" 4 129 50 500 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 143 "Pirate Guild-Master; Pirate 1" "Nova Data 2" 1 176 50 750 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 144 "Pirate Guild-Master; Pirate 1b" "Nova Data 2" 1 176 75 350 350000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 145 "United Shipping Courier" "Nova Data 2" 1 190 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0D08 "•"
ränk 146 "Member of the Guild of Bounty Hunters" "Nova Data 2" 1 149 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0D00 "•"
ränk 147 "Have Access to Hypergate System" "Nova Data 2" 1 183 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0208 "•"
ränk 148 "; Rebel 1" "Nova Data 2" 0 141 100 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0144 "•"
ränk 149 "Director of the Bureau of Internal Investigation" "Nova Data 2" 2 128 10 1000 0 0x000001FF 0x00000000 0x0F08 "•"
ränk 150 "; Nil'kemorya 1" "Nova Data 2" 0 147 100 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0144 "•"
ränk 151 "Cunjo Hunter;Special Klavs" "Nova Data 2" 0 -1 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0008 "•"
ränk 152 "Sworn Enemy of the Wild Geese" "Nova Data 2" 1 -1 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0008 "•"
ränk 153 "; Auroran Duel protector" "Nova Data 2" 1 129 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0140 "•"
ränk 154 "; Moash Duel protector" "Nova Data 2" 1 131 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0140 "•"
ränk 155 "; Tekel Duel protector" "Nova Data 2" 1 132 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0140 "•"
ränk 156 "; Vella Duel protector" "Nova Data 2" 1 133 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0140 "•"
ränk 157 "; Dani Duel protector" "Nova Data 2" 1 134 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0140 "•"
ränk 158 "; Heraan Duel protector" "Nova Data 2" 1 135 0 0 0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0140 "•"
• End Output
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Huh. The player has KOTRB, I actually considered it, but came to darthkev's conclusion. I broke the WG's alliance with the Feds, though, and poof! It works. Thanks.

Benefits of a ränk are conferred through alliances? That is an important discovery.

Indeed. Is there a thread or page somewhere listing "Important Things to Know When Building Plug-Ins"?

There's "Cool Nova Hacks," though that's not quite the same. You know, it might be worth putting one together; there are a lot of quirks in the system, planet/system visbits are the big ones that come to mind at the moment.