DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2017.03.03 12:11:31 -
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Suitonia wrote:DeMichael Crimson wrote:Hello,
My question - what is your viewpoint regarding Faction standings and as a CSM member, what changes would you propose to CCP pertaining to game mechanics for Faction standings ?
Good luck to you in the upcoming CSM election.
DMC I think faction standings have lost a lot of value (No longer needed for POS anchoring, Jump Clones etc. Their only purpose atm is for missions and market tax reduction). I'm not sure how to make them useful again without them being gimmicky.
Thanks for the reply.
Yes I agree, Faction standings have lost a lot of value and should be more meaningful than just to get missions. CCP never should have removed the need of Faction standings to anchor a POS in high sec space. In my opinion that was a big mistake.
Currently the in-game aspects of Faction standings :
Positive Faction standings are the only way to access Cosmos Agents (one time access).
Positive Faction and Corporation standings are needed to access Research Agents.
All other Agents only require minimal amount of Faction standing for access (-2.00 or higher standing).
High Faction standings reduce Market Broker fees and Reprocessing fees in NPC stations.
At -5.00 or lower Faction standing, Empire NPC's will attack when in their space.
This game was founded on the premise of having a balance on 'Risk vs Reward' and 'Actions vs Consequences'. It takes time for players to ruin Faction standings and as such it should also take some time to repair those standings. In the past Characters use to be accountable for their actions in-game, now most everything has been dumbed down and turned into easy mode for the instant gratification crowd. That's something I don't want to see happen to Faction standings.
I created and shared the 'Faction Standing Repair Plan' with the playerbase back in 2010. In my opinion players need more options available to repair negative Faction standings then what I've listed in 'The Plan' since most of those Event Agents can only be accessed once in the characters life. Most players in-game don't even read the forums so they don't know that guide is available. In fact repairing negative Faction standings is extremely tough on new players who haven't even learned the game yet since they can easily mess up their Faction standings right from the start without actually knowing it.
I think the process of Faction standing repair should be implemented in-game to be more intuitive instead of being so obscure. All changes to Faction standings should be brought to the players attention with an on screen pop up message. Any action that would cause negative Faction standing should trigger an on screen pop up warning (with option to deactivate). All Anti-Empire missions should have a warning to alert players that accepting and completing those missions will incur negative Faction standings. An idea presented by others is to have Tags for Standings. Personally I don't really like the idea but if it's similar to Tags for Security, I guess it would be acceptable. Lastly CCP could add another group of NPC Agents to the in-game Agent Finder strictly for Faction standing repair, sorta like the proposal I have listed in my forum signature.
Anyway, thanks again for the reply and good luck in the upcoming election.
DMC
'The Plan' | California Eve Players | Proposal - The Endless Battle
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