Warfare & Tactics

My corp has run into a dilemma recently. We are in the Minmatar militia. We're recruiting at an accelerating rate, but this has caused our Minmatar Republic standings to drop significantly. It won't be long until they are so low that we would be in danger of getting booted from FW. I really do not want to close recruitment, or restrict it to only those with already good standings.

To counteract this, all new members are advised to run FW complexes and missions as they can. Still, it does not appear to be enough.

So, directed at the bigger alliances or corps in FW: how do you keep your standings afloat in the middle of a recruitment drive? Is there something that the directors can do to help, or is it just a "everyone go plexing all day everyday" campaign? What would you suggest?

If people actually ran the L4 missions that would probably solve itself, but we are also a newbie corp, which means that most people a) cannot solo the missions and b) do not have standings for the mission.

Plus it's always more fun to go suicide a Rifter into TMFED than running missions, so actual pew pew holds far more of a draw than missioning.

There are always going to be a few guys here and there that hold your standings down and aren't interested in getting them better. You can afford a few guys here & there if the bulk of your corp has decent standings.

CCP took away the ability to see standings to tell who had bad which sucks for a a corp in FW, but you have a work around. In FW you get Ranks which publicly show up in their decoration section on the char info. You can roughly judge the players faction standings by their Rank to the Militia.

Simply just make guys understand that they need to be willing to work on their rank if they intend to be in your FW corp. We do the corp fleet with missions as Chatgris said every so often but also encourage guys to go plex when we don't have gangs up.

Remove the 'and missions', and just tell them to run a set number of plexes. You gain ranks very fast at the outset, and each time you gain a rank you gain standing.

Corp button -> Standings tab -> choose liked by / disliked by, then right-click any of the listed factions / corporations, then click "Show Compositions". It gives you a list of all the members who contribute to the standing and their individual standing to the selected faction / corporation. Hope that helps.

Yea it does.. never knew you could see them that way.

Ty

I assume you've looked at using pirate tags to boost standings?

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Data_Centers

We did much the same as you want to do back in 2009. We managed to accommodate people who had -7 standing to Min Republic ,atlhough that got expensive.

Remember that the percentage increase is from your current standing to +10, so for example a +5% increase on someone with 3.0 results in an increase of 0.35 but a 5% increase on someone with 5.0 only gives 0.25 increase.

I'd suggest trying to bump up corp members so they hit the 1.0 standing as that will then give them access to a 2.8% and a 3.5% datacentre agent. That will get them from 1.0 to about 1.5 instantly.

Best of luck.

Edit - if you have anyone in corp with 5.0 standing to Min Republic then do the Angel Diamond tag first. The boost is pseudo-random but can be 10%+.

Edit2 - and for gods sakes don't buy from the sell order. Put up your own buy orders in Heimatar, Metropolis and Molden Heath, you should get plenty with the minimum of effort.

No clue on any of that. I'm not even sure if the victory points from plexes are split between everyone in the plex at completion time or not. For me, plexing is just throwing spaghetti at a wall and hoping it sticks, while also hoping that the cook next door comes running in to beat me with a dough roller so I get a fight.

Have them run all their Minmatar tutorial schools (3 schools, 5 agents each). Some advice:

1) Train Social to 3 or 4, 5 if you're dedicated
2) On the scanning tutorial agent, there are almost always contracts up for the Proof of Discovery items. Means you only have to undock once to run the entire tutorial chain.
3) Train Connections, too, as this will help
4) All in all, if you're dedicated, you can have all three schools done in an afternoon.

If you want extra kudo standings, do the Gallente ones, too. With Social 5 and Connections 5, I had my Gallente/Minmatar standings to 5 when it was all said and done.

A poster above also mentioned the tags for datacenters. It costs around 500m to buy out all the tags you need (at least it did for my Gallente tags) for your faction. Obviously double that for your allies faction, too, assuming they're priced comparably. Then there's always farming them...