Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Due to some confusion caused by 3rd party websites, I recently spent a couple of weeks hurling abuse at corp members and grinding NPC standing up. I did this in the mistaken belief that corp standing affected reprocessing taxation levels. I was trying to make zero tax reprocessing available to corp members who had insufficient personal standing.

As I neared my goal, I realised that the taxation level wasn't reducing as expected and I posted a thread on the forums asking why and I also raised a petition. I'm copying the substance of my conversation with the GM below and would welcome any comments the community might have.

The GM suggested that the reasons only personal standings were applicable were to do with a concern that 'reprocessing corps' might arise to sell zero-tax reprocessing; corp standings could also be used for POS anchoring; and that dealing with corp members with bad standing would be a problem.

I suggested that we already have corps which provide JC availability - people hop in and out of them at need in order not to affect the corp standings. Why not allow taxation the same leeway? Or, if a fix was needed, implement a requirement for the character to be in corp for a fixed period of time before corp NPC standings are effective - thus allowing the corp standing to repopulate reflecting current membership. Meaning hopping in and out wouldn't work for either service.

Finding which members of your corp affect your standings is easy - show composition on the specific NPC corp on your corp standings page. Many corps won't care about this kind of thing - people have lived without it for so long. But for those that do, they have the choice over whether to kick or to ask the player to raise his standing.

POS anchoring no longer requires much in the way of standing so isn't really relevant.

My whole argument here is that grinding corp standing is pretty labour intensive and there ought to be more of a reward than the availability of jump clones or eligibility to join FW.

Surely the notion that a new player could join a player corp and receive better access to mission agents, less taxation for reprocessing or market trading ought to be a good thing?

I don't see this as a bar to corps accepting applicants but more an extension of the choices we have available to us in New Eden. What do you guys think?

Anything that could make it hard for a new player to get into a Corp particularly mining corps where most new players turn to gets a -1

Getting in before the banhammer takes place.

There's no 'forced' about it. Personal standings will still work if you have them. But, if you've chosen to do that grind for your corp - for whatever reason - then you'll get more benefit than just jump clones.

I really can't see a downside to this. Lots of corps won't care. But little ones might - and it presents a way to make life easier for new players - would encourage them to join player corps as the benefits are more tangible than just 'play with other folk, they'll help you'.

To be absolutely clear, nothing in EVE is of more assistance to a rookie than a vet willing to spend time and share knowledge and possibly spread some wealth. But that isn't always on offer.

It's just an idea.

TL;DR

Even with level 3 storyline missions it is quicker to do-it-yourself. But in case it doesn't go fast enough, you can always train 'Social', 'Connections', 'Mining Connections', 'Distribution connections' and or 'Security Connections'.

I left 'Criminal Connections' out because I think it is safe to assume the no noob is going to nullsec and makes level 1-3 missions for pirate factions any time soon.