"to summarise.

Gaining honour:
hit (hp) - yellow or bandits (red) targets,
crushing economy ships (cargos, recyclers, probes, sats) does nothing for honour either negative or positive.
crushing defences: gains you honour in the amount that are destroyed, not based on TD.

Losing honour:
Hitting anyone not in above classification
maybe in acs with people where your fleet is much more powerful than opponents (im not sure of the story here since latest update)

Benefits of being Honourable:
-you dont have the one negative thing a bandit has.
-people think you are honourable if they dont know much about whats happening like e.g you. and offer trades etc to know a "nice" person
-in future update 4.0.0 maybe honour will be tradeable for stuff..very little info is available on this at the moment

Negatives of being a bandit:
You have 100% of your resources raided if attacked: for top ~101 military people this is of little consequence as they are (hp) targets and will have 75% raided anyway
you have a dildo next to your name

resources raided:
hitting a bandit (red) - 100% resources taken in one attack
hitting a (hp) yellow target: 75% resources taken
hitting white/outlaw/inactive: 50% resources taken."

z angielskiego forum, z 2012 więc nei wiem na ile dokladne obecnie, ale daje obraz tego jak to działa;p

Atakujac lepszych graczy albo lepsi Ciebie dostaniesz + punkty honoru, gdy bedziesz farmic na slabszych to dostaniesz - . A to chyba do niczego nie jest potrzebne. Jedynie ktos moze sb popatrzec czy honorowo walczysz czy tez nie.