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Faction Standings, what are they good for?

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Decaneos
Casalt Corp
CAStabouts
#1 - 2014-05-01 01:29:15 UTC
So i started out on a mission once to get my standings for minmatar and gallente to 10.0, as a result i drove my amarr and caldari standings into the ground, now im not complaining about that or even care about recovering them, however with a standing of over 9 what is it actually good for? nothing much as far as i can tell.

Someone told me that it had something to do with the placement of highsec POS, however with the summer expansion even that looks like its no longer going to be linked to your faction standings, so whats it good for guys? any ideas?
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#2 - 2014-05-01 01:30:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Doc Fury
Soon, not so much..

except jump clones
reduced taxes

stuff like that.

There was just a thread here a day or so ago with longer list.

☼

There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Keeper of Contracts
Doomheim
#3 - 2014-05-01 01:40:55 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:

except jump clones
reduced taxes


These are both corporation standings based, aren't they?

I only thought faction standings had to do with POS tower anchoring and deciding whether or not you got your face shot at in enemy Empire space or what level of mission agents you were limited to for the entire faction.

So, after the summer expansion faction standings will pretty much only be used to punish, not reward.
Nalelmir Ahashion
Industrial Management and Engineering
Mouth Trumpet Cavalry
#4 - 2014-05-01 01:47:55 UTC
Level 5 gives you global access to all L4 agents.
higher then that I have no effin idea.
Loraine Gess
Confedeferate Union of Tax Legalists
#5 - 2014-05-01 03:29:11 UTC
Keeper of Contracts wrote:
Doc Fury wrote:

except jump clones
reduced taxes


These are both corporation standings based, aren't they?

I only thought faction standings had to do with POS tower anchoring and deciding whether or not you got your face shot at in enemy Empire space or what level of mission agents you were limited to for the entire faction.

So, after the summer expansion faction standings will pretty much only be used to punish, not reward.



No, faction standing is very important in broker's fees
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2014-05-01 08:43:46 UTC
Faction standings were stopping new players being awesome cos they took to long to grind and new players are not patient little campers.

Hence after summer, any faction standings over 5 will have limited use. You can POS it up as much as you like.
Ix Method
Doomheim
#7 - 2014-05-01 10:10:45 UTC
If you get them upto 9.9 ish you can get a few faction ship BPCs. Uh... yeah, taxes is the big one now really.

Travelling at the speed of love.
LHA Tarawa
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2014-05-01 16:24:37 UTC
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
Faction standings were stopping new players being awesome cos they took to long to grind and new players are not patient little campers.

Hence after summer, any faction standings over 5 will have limited use. You can POS it up as much as you like.



Thing is, they really didn't.

Run the tutorials a couple times. Run SoE epic arc. Then cycle between turning in tags and running some cosmos missions. Don't do combat missions? Buy the needed items from someone that does.

Super easy to get to 5 to unlock all L4 missions. Wasn't more than a week of casual play to get above 7 for high sec POS in highest system that was available in the past.

If you are grinding faction standing via the storyline after every 16 regular missions, then you are doing it WRONG!
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#9 - 2014-05-01 16:39:16 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Ezwal
Locator agents.

Get 5+ standing with a faction, go to a locator agent of theirs, ask them where another player is, go there and shoot him in the face. Beautiful, and how mercenaries regularly operate in hisec.

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Kaidu Kahn
POT Corp
#10 - 2014-05-01 17:20:55 UTC
Free Caldari Navy Issue Battleships from Cosmos agents.
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#11 - 2014-05-01 19:38:49 UTC
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Marsha Mallow
#12 - 2014-05-01 20:01:20 UTC
OK normally I enjoy it when you scrub us but I resent that! Singing is perfectly on-topic if OP posts lyrics in thread title. We weren't even being naughty. Yet >.>

Ripard Teg > For the morons in the room:

Sweets > U can dd my face any day
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#13 - 2014-05-01 20:04:28 UTC
Standings.

HUH.

Yeah.

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Marsha Mallow
#14 - 2014-05-01 20:10:55 UTC
Say it again.

Ripard Teg > For the morons in the room:

Sweets > U can dd my face any day