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MJ, maybe they are doing corporal missions in THEIR capital, but also trying to get that negative starter fame with two of the other races up in the process, for those there are precious few options without days of grinding fame with a single npc.
As a newbie, you're going to spend a while in your "home country" anyway, no rush to trek out. All more reason to keep doing the corporals, plus you learn about the geography of the region, etc.
Once you do have fame over 45, you can make about 108k dappers per day, from NH alone. Surely then you can spend a few dappers to get transported around, in a different continent where your fame isn't good enough? I mean, 9 transports (your worst case scenario) is 27k.
If memory serves, your worst default fame is -20. Giving one full set of products bumps you by about 17 points to -3, and then you only need a few more products the next day to get to 0. At which point you can start corporals :)
Personally I wouldn't mind capping the daily limit to 24 instead of 36, this way making it harder to fill up the transporters.
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