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I'm not sure this would help your problem (though, I'm not sure your problem is an actual problem that requires addressing). It's generally advised that missioners simply turn down faction missions because they eviscerate your standings. Anyone who is doing them is doing them because they think the additional payout from tags is worth the standings loss; if prices fall, people will stop doing them, supply will drop and then prices will rise again.

Increasing the drop rate per boat might help; it'd let sellers make the same isk/hour while increasing volume.

Tricky, though.

Which tags are under supplied?

Sigh, these forums really **** me off. Spend 10 minutes writing up a nice response only for it to get deleted and never posted. Here it goes again.

Why do we need more tags? I have solid proof and didn't think I had to give it but apparently I do. When was the last time you saw an imperial navy adaptive nano (not the energized)? My guess is never. They are superior to t2 and have no disadvantages compared to t2 other than cost. But here's the problem. They cost 20M+ isk to produce in tags (0 isk/LP) and are inferior to c-types which cost 10-15M isk. Obviously no one buys them except as collector items.

But that is with current market tag prices, now take a look at what the NPC buy order prices of those tags are. Suddenly that item would only cost about 5M isk to make. If tag prices reflected CCP's intention for them, IN adaptive nano's would be a good item to make and I suspect farely popular. But since those tags are worth upwards of 40x as much as CCP planned, they aren't.

You want to know what tag is worth 40x as much? One of them is the republic fleet captain tag. NPC buy order price is ~50k isk, current player prices are around 2M isk. That huge discrepancy alone makes many of the amarr LP store items impossible to sell at a profit since deadspace and pirate faction drops of equal or superior stats are in fact cheaper. I'm not interested in increasing tag supply to improve my isk/LP rate on popular items, it's to make the other 90%+ of the LP market stuff actually worth making.

As for people rejecting the missions goes, I think it's hard to predict what people will do. Back when I was a high sec carebear, I never rejected missions against opposing factions. I didn't know anyone who did either. I've played FW on both sides of the minmatar/amarr front and guess what, I still don't care about killing the opposing navies. In truth the only people who seem to care about the enemy's faction standings are missioners who post on this forum. I don't think I've chatted with a single player in game who rejected such missions. So I can see it going either way.

In any case, I included the options to both get anti-empire faction missions only or anti-pirate faction missions only (or the current mix). It should make everyone happy. Will it increase tag supply overall? I think so but even if it doesn't, it gives the option for people like me to generate our own tags easier. Perhaps even with a surplus to sell to the others like ya'll.

I don't think there is anything to oppose here really. I'm proposing the addition of a few new missions at various levels and the ability to select whether or not you want to fight opposing navies. I think that doing so will bring tag prices down to where CCP intended for them to be but even if it doesn't, are you really against any of this?

I don't support the general increase of tag availability. The supply of most tags is just fine. Just some of the more rare ones could be tweaked.