Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25799916-20150506174330/@comment-25799916-20150507213536

It should definetly be an alignment thing. However, just having a certain alignment shouldn't grant you full tracking ability. Maybe something like this.

Once you reach a certain alingment with nearly any given faction (something low like +50), then you can track, but not very well. You will tend to lose the trail a lot. Slowly, with increments every 50 alignment or so, your tracking ability would increase.