EVE General Discussion

I'm not entirely sure this has any relevance to the subject about standing. Had you left this off, you would have looked a lot less ranty.

I think it's unwise to remove the benefit of obtaining a high standing.

The standing requirement for getting to build a PoS, while the removal of a benefit, does not remove all benefit.

6 Corporations will stop taxing your refinery use entirely. (6.67 Modified Personal Standing)
7 No Additional Bonus
8 NPC Corporations will allow you to install jump clones in their stations. (8.0 Modified Personal Standing)
Some factions will offer you a two run faction frigate BPC. (8.5 Modified Personal Standing)

9 Some factions will offer you a two run faction cruiser BPC. (9.2 Modified Personal Standing)
Some factions will offer you a two run faction battleship BPC. (9.9 Modified Personal Standing)

So with these benefits still prevalent, there is still a reason to desire high standing.

OP is all over the place.

First its STANDINGS, then its some kind of REIMBURSEMENT, then its OTHER PEOPLE, then its FW, then its DUST, then its SCAMS, then its something about EPIC ARC/COSMOS missions.

I don't know what to say...

I will probably never own a POS myself but I agree with the OP.

Removing the standing requirement is a very bad idea. It's a definite badge of honor to be able to place a POS in High Security. If a change to the standing requirement is actually needed, (and it's not) then just allow the Corp members modified standing to be used in the Corp standing average. Opening up the rest of High Security to allow POS to be anchored is all fine and dandy but it needs to follow the original standing aspect for anchoring, ie, same amount of corp standing as the system security level.

What I see happening here is an entire type of player run business being snuffed out of existence. This new change doesn't help the smaller corps and alliances that have worked hard at building up and maintaining Faction standings in order to have a POS in High Sec.

Opening up High Sec systems to anyone with no standing whatsoever to anchor POS just means more moons for the big power-block Alliances to control.



DMC

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Actually it does help the smaller guys by opening up a lot more moons. Not everyone has the ability to call on friends to help blow up an offline pos. With the way fuel prices have been going the standings to anchor the pos are the least of their worries.

Humour.
No, it's not a badge of honour. It's a demonstration that you can bash your head against terminally boring content and manipulate fundamentally broken designs to overcome an incoherent and illogical mess of cross-gameplay dependencies. It's bad gameplay through and through and its removal is roughly 10 years too late.

A change in the requirement was desperately needed. They could have chickened out and just make it possible to buy your way up using the same system as with sec status restoration, but instead did the much bolder move of removing the unrelated mechanic entirely. Now, industrialists can focus on being industrialists and not get involved in and waste time and skill points on a pointless side grind.

Standings are a part of the mission-running progression. Nothing non-mission-related should have anything to do with them. Yes, taxes, refining, jumpclones — it should all be decoupled from this mission-based system. If the gradation and time investment needs to remain to offer some kind of effort-reward scheme, then there are plenty of ways of doing that without involving something as irrelevant as missions.

This new change helps smaller corps and alliances immensely since they can now worry about far more important things than maintaining every individual member's faction standing, and they can instantly replace any losses they incur when in conflict with other entities.

They also gain access to a massive amount of new moons. Hell, the moons we already have aren't even used to capacity and now we get thirteen thousand more. The “big power block alliances” have no particular interest in filling up all those new moons (or, demonstrably, ability to do so since they can't even fill up what's already there), which leaves the field open. And no, the standings requirement is not what's keeping them back — the notion that they don't already have a myriad of members that have, or can instantly create, a 7.0+ standing corp and spam every spot in the galaxy is nothing short of laughable.

corp selling days are over.. i'll just duel box incursions to make up for it, or maybe, actually join a corp?

Probably bringing it to a wider audience, instead of hiding it in a cleverly-designed cul de sac. Oddly enough...but, you knew that already, didn't you.

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Everything about this change is a slap in the face to long term players who did the grind. You lost 5 paying accounts the last time you slapped me CCP. This is just more something for nothing for noobs and BlueSec greed monsters at the expense of folks who put ALOT of effort into the game.