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Trader loyalty matters more than your character level: 225 tasks hang on it

For a long time tasks unlocked by character level: hit 15, get access. That is no longer how it works, and plenty of people keep grinding levels without understanding why their task list is not growing. What the data shows In our database 225 tasks out of 580 require not a character level but a spec

For a long time tasks unlocked by character level: hit 15, get access. That is no longer how it works, and plenty of people keep grinding levels without understanding why their task list is not growing.

What the data shows

In our database 225 tasks out of 580 require not a character level but a specific loyalty level (LL) with a trader. The distribution:

• **LL1** — 62 tasks
• **LL2** — 81 tasks
• **LL3** — 62 tasks
• **LL4** — 31 tasks

The peak is at the second loyalty level. In other words the bulk of the content opens up fairly early rather than at the end of the road — if you know what to raise.

How loyalty grows

Three things at once:

• **Character level** — the floor; without it you are not let through;
• **Turnover** — how much you have spent at the trader and how much you have sold them;
• **Reputation** — tasks give it, and failures take it away.

An important detail: turnover counts in both directions. Selling to a trader also works towards loyalty. So the habit of putting everything on the flea market slows down your task unlocks, even when it makes more money.

The practical takeaway

If you are stuck and no new tasks appear, it is almost certainly not your level. Open the trader and look at the loyalty bar: most often what is missing is turnover.

What to do:

• Sell the right junk to the right trader: medical supplies to Therapist, weapons and mods to Prapor and Mechanic, gear to Ragman.
• Do not spread your purchases across all eight at once if your goal is to open one specific branch.
• Remember that reputation drops when you fail a task. One abandoned quest can set a branch back.

Why this is not always visible

The Russian and English wikis describe the requirements differently: the English one has moved to the loyalty-level wording, while the Russian one still says character level in many places. We checked both and took the fresher of the two — so the requirement on a task page here is written the way it actually works now, not the way it worked before patch 1.1.