Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'd like to see a way to not only encourage more missioning / pve, but also provide additional targets for pvpers, as well as allow foolish decisions in a character's past to slowly ebb away.

Decay of Standings, Towards Zero

After a delay (30 days? 90 days?) of no contact with a given faction, corporation, or agent, the Standings balance between said entity and the character would slowly decay towards zero.

I imagine negative scores would decay more slowly - humans tend to remember the bad longer than the good - but both negative and positive would trend towards null.

This could have some benefits to all players:

For the mission runners, you simply need to maintain 'Active' status with your home corporation or faction to see no ill effect. As you're running missions anyway, this is hardly a trial. The occasional Storyline mission will also keep your Faction standings smelling spring fresh.

For the PVPers, you'll have more targets flying about doing missions. You'll also slowly regain your own standings for your nefarious deeds, if that's your goal, by only shooting flashies or fighting where Concord does not tread.

For trading alts, it'll give you a little exercise. C'mon, what's one distro mission every so often? ;)

Industrialists? Inventors? You're likely misison-running anyway for your datacores and the like.

The aforementioned youthful indiscretions? Well, let's say that someone, er, accidentally blew up an Amarrian orphanage. This made a lot of people upset. But it happened a long, long time ago. There comes a time where 'worst capsuleer ever' becomes '...meh.'

Thoughts?

Was all I needed to read, though I did scan the idea to get the gist of it.

Now before I respond, understand that I have repeatedly been a bear is most of it's various forms. I've done nearly every form of PvE to be had in EvE. So speaking from experience...

No. Hell no.

Why should players be punished for finding mission running boring and tedious, and striking out to do something else? If someone stops running lvl 4 missions to go try something different, say wormholes, and they come decide they don;t like it, starting at zero standing when taking up missioning again will actually discourage more missioning and PvE.

Thus the delay. Agents wouldn't forget you immediately. Decide you don't like PVE? Then why would you care about Standings? Decide you want to stay? Sure, come back and keep working.



I respectfully disagree. Your suggestion to play a different game is noted and dismissed.

Again, I don't imagine it would reset you to zero in such a short time. Nothing happens quickly in EVE, save for ganks. With a delay, and then a decay (not a deletion) of standings, over time, the effect would be more gradual. CCP could also specify differing rates for Agents, Corporations, and Factions. Thus, that 8.0 corp you worked for would decay at, say, .2% per month of no-contact, the Faction would decay at .1%, and the agent at .4%, just like failing a mission or shooting a ship for the other Faction.

If I leave my POS for four months floating around a moon and don't log in, it will likely be gone when I get back. If I leave my stuff with my corp for four months, unless they are RL friends, and leave, they will likely be gone. Comparatively, if you leave game for four months, after the delay, your standings slowly start to decay.

This keeps players logging in. This keeps CCP's revenue up. This keeps mission-runners motivated to run. This gives PVPers more mission-runners in space at any time. If you care about both, you're likely already doing both. If not, where's the problem with running -one- mission every (delay cycle length here, let's say a month or so) with the proper faction/corporation you're maintaining?

A fair concern, but as a PVPer, why would you care about PVE standings? Let them decay/drop. As a miner, aren't you running the occasional Mining mission so you can reprocess more efficiently? I know I am, and I'm not mining as much these days as I'd like =). As a station trader, you started by running Distros to get your Jita faction up, why should you resent the occasional two-system hop?

I knew this would be a contentious issue to begin with, and as seen by these replies so far, it is. But if the character is already working standings, this won't punish them. If they're not working standings, why would they care if standings go away?

Hell no

I spend a great deal of time grinding missions as a tool to help new players in my corp. and I have agents/npc in all 4 major factions space. With this idea I would lose most of that hard work long before I could rotate back to those agents to refresh standings.

Also wondering why it is that so many people are aggressively targeting the PvE side of the game recently. If PvE is not your thing I understand that and fully support your decisions to go and do what you want, why do you have to try and crap all over the parts of the game that I enjoy?