' Wrote:smuggling is super ultra hard to do in the daytime when lots of people are on. Try at 5 am.
Not that hard, unless you plan on landing on Manhattan.
With a fresh character, go to Rochester and get a Junker bribe, do a few missions against the Xenos until you get your Junker tag, get a Junker or Smuggler ID (from Rochester), then find an Outcast bribe (at a Junker/Rogue/Hacker base, generally). Then you should at least not be hostile with the vast majority of factions. Might be with the Bounty Hunters, which can be a pain of an enemy (they're everywhere), but that's fixable.