1) Standings are hard to keep updated properly. Especially in large areas with alot of different neutral corps operating on a daily basis. Pirates and other "unknown" entities needs to be detected visually and hunted down manually, and they can easily hide among "true" neutrals in a system.


2) NRDS means less targets to shoot at and increases the chance of hostile spies running around uncontested.

An alliance style Sec-status with parameters set by the sovholders.
Pilots and gangs who do bad stuff in the SOV areas are flagged as "red" to the sovholders (like in empire).

The thresholds are determined by the sovholders. It could be anything from agressing neutrals or entering forbidden/off limit systems, stealing cargo or putting up too large market orders on specific items, opening cynofields, or being reported by sovholding personel with the the right role (like security officers).
Depending on the transgression it would result in different kinds of flags, like temporary or permanent "sec-status/standings" loss (in the end resulting in different responses from the pilots in the sovholding alliance).

Different kinds of fees and taxes. Like gatefees, jumpbridge fees and dockingfees.
Ignoring a fee at a gate and jumping in anyway would probably result in a "criminal flagging" towards the sovholding corp.
Tax on station-trading depandant on the standing of the pilot/corp/alliance.

Separate markets for the sovholders and everyone else. An internal market for the sovholders (you don't want an outsider to be able to buy all the hard mined minerals and sell them for tripple).

Sellable licenses that are bound to the pilot/corp/alliance receiving them. A license could allow access to a certain system or systems, dockingrights at certain stations, rights to trade certain goods or items. Permission to shoot neuts (or reds, or blues, whatever the sovholders allow) within the sovholding alliance territory. POS setup, you name it.
Licenses would be time-limited and/or revokable at any time by the issuing alliance.

Anchorable billboards and/or automatic messages transmitted to pilots in or entering sovheld systems (for example explaining the rules and directing visitors).

Originally by: Serathii

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really good idea, but some people are just trigger happy and prefer NBSI, cause a neutral is still a target

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Originally by: Khyenn LaNayeur

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i like the ideas, but i agree that completely automatic notification of "bad" behaviour is a little extreme.

maybe it should depend on soveirgnty level: at high sov you can put sensors in place that detect offences, but at low sov you have to rely on manual flags from security officers

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Originally by: Ethan Krindorf

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Really enjoyed reading those concepts! For me, the concept of licenses is most certainly 'made of win'. I'm in small corp and during my eve history, I've not actually be involved in any 0.0 politics, 0.1 entertainment is the most I've had.

However, I've always liked the idea of applying for, and receiving a license/permit/permission to travel in a certain region. I love the concept of proving yourself to a corp holding onto a particular system, having your background checked etc, and then being told that you are indeed allowed to do business in a particular area without fear of being taken out.

I like the idea of this being something that rogue corp players cannot abuse. For example, right now I could approach Corp X and discuss allowing myself and members of the corp I'm a director of to move freely through their territory for trade and exploration, even mining. They could give me a good standing, but rogue pilots in that corp or corp alliance could still take me down.

With a permit, these rogue elements who do not care for the rules wouldn't be able to engage me. I'm a diplomat in games, always have been; and your suggestion(s) certainly need attention from CCP developers, IMHO.

Good post all round, was certainly thought provoking.

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Originally by: Marcus Druallis

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Why would they not be able to engage you? This is all standings related stuff. All those licenses are bought to allow into a system and things of that nature. If one of the sov holders wanted to take you down, whats gonna stop them?

Same methods as today.

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Originally by: J'Mkarr Soban

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I like most of the ideas, apart from the market one. Having a cohesive market is important to the game - availability of market goods is a good advertisement for the alliance in the first place.

Introducing a corp hanger controlled by one person that things can be paid for directly is one option. Another is combining the idea of standings to market orders, as has been mentioned here before. That way, especially with dynamic standing changes, they can't even run through your systems in a cov-ops to pick something up cheap or anything. Their standings would change so much that when they -got- there, they couldn't buy it. (Yes they could buy it remotely and then fly in, but isn't that just another good reason to expand into an entire region? )

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