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Edit: Looks like low sec will become much more fun.

Now only if you could get above 5.0... more than once.

/c

Nice stuff is nice.

When you say that sec status will be on a -10 -> +10 scale, will this mean the 5.0 security cap is lifted?

Whats the difference between Concord standings and Security Standings?

Also, NPC 0.0 space needs some love!

Its a great sounding idea but I wanna ask a few more questions:

1) With the next expansion you've said that ore belts are getting a buff; but with the addtion of these new NPCs to those sites it will obviously increase the chance of visitors to those belts. What is the incentive now for miners to mine in these belts now that they are going to soon become mini PvP play grounds for people to 'rat4tags'

2) Will we have some ability to see an audit of a players sec status? I can see some people abusing this system by going -10, ratting back to zero, joining a nooby corp, puts on the 'innocent look' to get into the corp and then runs off, causes trouble and gets the nooby corp war deced and quickly does a road runner impression from the nooby corp and leaves them to face the music.

Rince & repeat for tears.

...which sounds totally awesome. WHY DO YOU HATE FUN?

The bottom line is, killboards still tell the story, and are an even more effective audit method than simply looking at security status. If someone goes around awoxing constantly, as long as the victims are posting their losses, it'll be obvious to other recruiters. I strongly believe that as long as they criminal is willing to pay the cost to do this repeatedly, and recruiters are lazy enough not to investigate killboard histories, than corps should suffer the consequences. This is a free-form capitalist dystopian universe, paying off the cops just feels right and this feature is long overdue.

It would be useful to have some more information regarding the design goals for this feature. Specifically, how much do you think it should cost to achieve certain sec status increases, e.g. -10.0 to -2.0, -5.0 to -2.0, and -2.0 to 0.0, assuming that you're buying the tags from the market? Second, what sort of income do you want people who go hunting for these tags to be making?

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But why do you make things so contrived ?
You guys have a habit of making the game more complicated than it needs to be for no reason.

The banding idea is pointless and unneccesary.
More difficult rats should drop better tags that raise sec by a bigger degree is simply and all that was needed.

New players who come to the game after this are also gonna be confused as f.
Some rat tags from bs drops do nothing and are worth dirt while "transporter" ship tags are lovelly wanted and expensive.

All pirate tags should be tradable for sec.
Old tags at a reduced rate for the first 6 months to clear the backlog of existing tags.

Remove the old sec status raise completelly and remove tag drops from null sec rats.
You can't lose sec in null you should not be able to raise it there either.

Giving people sec increases for what they do to get cash anyway means the sec hit for naughtyness is a rather non penalty.
Make them come to low sec and do community service to raise there sec up away from there big blue safety nets if they wan't to burn Jita etc.

I'll just say there's a very good reason I sell all my illegal boosters in lowsec, not Jita. And its not because I give a crap about customer convenience.