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Still no InterBus stations?!?!
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Lillinara Victrix
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2014-10-22 18:56:58 UTC
I had to stop playing Eve back in 2009 due to pesky real life issues. I came back recently and made this Amarr alt to play around with lasers and Amarr ships. Finished off all the tutorials I was interested in and decided to run some InterBus missions so I won't mess up my standings right off the bat. I ran a few missions and was looking around for the InterBus LP store and I suddenly remembered why I did not do InterBus mission when I was playing before back in 2009. There is no way to use Loyalty Points for InterBus because they do not have a station. Shocked

Really CCP, you couldn't go out and put one station in a system that had no stations before? I know there are plenty of systems that have no stations at all in High Sec space.

The annoying little things like this is part of the reason I did not come back sooner. Silly me, expecting CCP to fix something during 5 years time I was away from Eve.
Ireland VonVicious
Vicious Trading Company
#2 - 2014-10-22 19:12:57 UTC
Interbus gives you positive standings with all 4 factions.

No other group does this.

That is what you get instead of the LP spending.


Sadly it was better until recently. Now that positive standings mean so much less with how high sec POS setup requirements change interbus is worse than ever this year.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2014-10-22 22:05:56 UTC
Well, actually The Interbus only gives Agent and Corp standings. It has positive standing with all Empire Factions and due to that they don't have any Storyline Agents.

The reason for no Storyline Agents is due to the game mechanic of getting derived standings, both positive and negative, towards all Factions. Since The Interbus is positive towards all Empire Factions, that would make it too easy for players to get and keep positive standings with all Empire Factions.

Also The Interbus isn't supposed to offer any Anti-Empire encounter missions, only encounter missions against Pirate Factions and Rogue Drones. Basically I think long ago The Interbus was set up as a Retirement Corp for Capsuleers who still wanna do encounter missions but don't wanna mess up their Faction Standings.

However I see no reason for The Interbus to not have an LP Store, especially since they do give Loyalty Points. The only thing I can think of is that CCP forgot to give them an LP Store.


DMC

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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2014-10-23 02:29:55 UTC
DeMichael Crimson wrote:


However I see no reason for The Interbus to not have an LP Store, especially since they do give Loyalty Points. The only thing I can think of is that CCP forgot to give them an LP Store.


DMC



maybe it is in Jove space :D
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#5 - 2014-10-23 04:46:38 UTC
DeMichael Crimson wrote:
The reason for no Storyline Agents is due to the game mechanic of getting derived standings, both positive and negative, towards all Factions. Since The Interbus is positive towards all Empire Factions, that would make it too easy for players to get and keep positive standings with all Empire Factions.


because currently that is too hard *rolls eyes*

honestly right now standings do almost nothing in game. half tempted to say CCP should just get rid of them. The end goal seems to be NPCs don't matter and everything is player driven, so why not speed that up a little.

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DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2014-10-25 11:00:24 UTC
Chainsaw Plankton wrote:
DeMichael Crimson wrote:
The reason for no Storyline Agents is due to the game mechanic of getting derived standings, both positive and negative, towards all Factions. Since The Interbus is positive towards all Empire Factions, that would make it too easy for players to get and keep positive standings with all Empire Factions.


because currently that is too hard *rolls eyes*

honestly right now standings do almost nothing in game. half tempted to say CCP should just get rid of them. The end goal seems to be NPCs don't matter and everything is player driven, so why not speed that up a little.

OK, I admit it's much easier now to get and keep positive standings with Empire Factions than it was in the past.

Also CCP allowing POS anchoring to be done in +1.0 to +0.8 High Security systems was fine, however the removal of Faction Standing requirements for it was wrong.

Anyway it seems to me CCP is starting to add more PvE content to the game as well as redo / update existing content. Doubt this game would survive if all the PvE content was removed and the game turned into a strictly PvP free-for-all.


DMC

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