Player Features and Ideas Discussion

In conjunction with current moves to allow newbros access to more game content I propose allowing players to extract and sell standings points they no longer use and place them on the market as items called something appropriate like "corporation referral". Newbros can then buy these and gain high standings with corporations so that they can access level 4 missions etc, without grinding through the lower levels.

* Would help prevent losing new players to boredom of low level grinding, allow them to get into better isk making activities more quickly, perhaps so they can gain enough isk for that SP packet that will keep them in the game longer.

* Enables players to profit from standings they no longer require if they move on to different areas of the game or different activities.

* Puts more control of our characters in our hands, fits nicely into the overall game design philosophy of giving us control over our experience through cooperation and competition with each other.

Thanking you in advance,

Cecil B D'Milf.

That's not how standings work.
Eve has established that Capsuleers have minds like a computer, to which things can be added or in this case, removed.

Standings are basically reputation.
You can't give or sell reputation, it has to be earned.

I just finished grinding up Amarr standings I at so I could do anything besides lvl 1 missions and I still do not support the idea of standing selling.

Of course you do not see one.

I humbly apologize; however, I understand my irony as support for Joe Risalo's point in his second and third paragraph, which included all the intellectual value this thread is worth.

But sure thing, CCP opened the flood gates for this kind of extraordinary daftness, so let's take this a logical step further, shall we? As soon as the character who bought standing towards a particular NPC corp commits a crime against another capsuleer in High sec, the NPC corp(s) will deny this character docking rights to their stations for the as many days as equivalent to the number of standing levels this character bought. It is only fair that NPC corps retaliate against abusers of their goodwill these characters did not earn, but buy on a black market.

Whaaa???

A suggestion that actually punishes players for ganking is HS?


FOR SHAME!!!

Don't you know the Uber elite, HS ultra-gankers will rage this one?

Seriously though, I love how anything that makes the life of a HS ganker even slightly more difficult and/or slightly more beneficial to carebears, is treated as garbage.

Seems like you two are coming around to the idea

you know you can already buy standings

Exactly... the process between players already exists, this would just simplify an already existing process much as the proposal to sell skill extractors does with the character bazaar.

Or... we could just fix lvl 1 & 2 missions to not be an utter joke....
And then it wouldn't be a 'boring grind'

But hey, lets destroy a section of the game for the sake of a few.

This suggestion is the tops.

I'd like to see capsuleers also able to extract letters from their name and sell them to other players. This way you can't just change your name, but you could eventually collect and extract enough letters to get a new name you build yourself.