DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2017.03.06 13:36:43 -
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Scylus Black wrote:Hi DeMichael,
Maybe you can help me with this. I am a spokesperson for you and the other factions. That's my goal. While I want to bring to the table awareness around Citadel balancing and improving PVP for all of us, my agenda is driven by you.
So it comes down to getting a comprehensive list of action items from each faction. If you are the Minmatar representative and the collective wants to improve standing mechanics. That's going on the agenda. I need each faction to partner with one another and agree to what must be heard by CCP.
I am also looking to ask CCP to follow through on some items that they agreed were an issue with FW over the years but pushed off to invest in other areas of the game.
I would like to see plexing tie in with standings and if that's your priority I would put that on the agenda so we are all heard.
Best,
Scylus
Hello and thanks for the reply,
I'm not a FW player and my inquiry actually pertains to all players, especially FW members who leave the Militia and as a consequence of their time served can not access content available in unfriendly Empire space.
Now don't get me wrong, I think Faction standings should have an impact on game play, especially since Eve Online is based on having a balance in 'Risk vs Reward' and 'Actions vs Consequences'. That's what makes this game great. In the past characters were accountable for their actions, now most everything is being 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.
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.
In my opinion CCP made a big mistake when they removed the need to have positive Faction standings to anchor POS in high sec space. Having that requirement made Faction standings more meaningful instead of just being a way to access Agents or to get lower Broker fees.
Now I would love to see more content pertaining to positive Faction standings be added to the game. However at this time my inquiry is based on the negative effects of Faction standings to the playerbase. Since it takes time for players to ruin their Faction standings then it should also take some time to repair those standings. Unfortunately that info is basically nonexistent in-game when it should actually be readily available and easily understood by players.
I created and shared the 'Faction Standing Repair Plan' with the playerbase on the forums back in 2010. Over the past 7 years it has helped countless amount of players to rectify what seemed like an unsolvable issue. In my opinion players need more options available to repair negative Faction standings then what I've listed in that guide. In fact most of those Event Agents can only be accessed once in the characters life.
There's a lot of players in-game who don't read the forums and don't know that guide exists. They've basically accepted the fact they're cut off from engaging in available content due to negative Faction standings. Repairing negative standings is a big task even for experienced players who are familiar with 'The Plan'. New players who haven't learned the game yet can easily mess up their Faction standings without even knowing it right from the start, resulting in no access to half of Empire space.
Anyway, after 7 years of helping players in the forums to repair negative Faction standings, I just wanted to provide some feedback through the CSM for CCP to consider. I believe these options would definitely help all players in-game.
Faction standing repair process be implemented in-game and be very intuitive, not obscure (tutorial perhaps).
Changes to Faction standings will notify players with on screen pop up message (option to deactivate).
Actions that would cause negative Faction standing trigger on screen pop up warning (option to deactivate).
All Anti-Empire mission briefings have a warning informing players those missions will incur negative Faction standings.
Implement Tags for Empire Standings in-game based on similar game mechanics as Tags for Security.
Add NPC Agents to in-game Agent Finder for Faction standing repair (similar to proposal in my forum signature).
Once again good luck with the upcoming election.
DMC
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