Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Traders and industrialists depend to some degree on standing. Good standing reduces the broker fee and waste when recycling. Currently the trader has to leave his playstyle when he wants to increase standing.

To increase standing PvPers can do faction warfare, mission runners do missions.

Now I want to propose a way for the trader profession:

increase standing with market orders!

For every order on market over time you gather standing points with the corp and faction of the station the order is located.

This should be a slow process and a single order shouldnt have much impact. But serious traders can have up to 300 orders on market. So if a trader seeds the same station with a lot of orders over a long time (months maybe), the standing gain gets noticeable.



Roleplay aspect: a well seeded market is benefitial to the station owning (npc)corporation (they get more taxes). So they have reason to be thankfull and respect the trader with better standing.

thank you for reading

This is a good idea & simple way to implement it would be transaction tax paying for standing.

If you have even read the EVE wiki you would know that you can buy up to 5.0 standing from any of the 4 high sec races with ISK by buying tags of market & handing them into the data center.

SO your idea is redundant as traders all ready have a way of grinding standing via ISK & purchase of data center tags. You can even buy up to 8.0 ( I think) if you also purchase cosmo's items to hand in.

Basically you want for your play style to get standing for free. That is basically what you are saying. You aren't spending extra isk or extra time you are just doing what you normal do, and getting standings. You can just buy tags like everyone else who need to increase their standing without running missions. Not to mention there are 2 whole classes of non combat missions.

Interesting topic, I like that idea. Kinda goes along with my Idea of Tags for Loyalty Points..

But anyway, back to your idea. What would be the exchange rate for the standing increase for the trading?

I like the concept. I wouldnt want to figure out the bonus over time, either, but I agree that it should be significantly less than combat related increases due to decreased risk.

I'd tag along on that idea and put increases tied to any activity that makes money for the hosting corporation, ie refining and industry, renting an office, etc. Yes, again, significantly smaller bonuses, but most corporations would favor those that are making them money.

Against. If you want standings there are ways to get them currently. Courier missions are something you should look into.

I do like the concept if being able to raise your standings through conducting trades. I do have one major concern though that is preventing me from giving it a +1.

What would stop someone from taking a large amount of their materials, and selling them at a station when their item is the only one that is being offered at their station for lets just say double the price. They then purchase that item on an alt, and trade it back to their main. The only thing stopping them from doing this would be the transaction tax, which is not enough to prevent someone from doing this.

This would also provide someone with a large sum of cash, to be able to boost their own standings, while not incurring any type of other player interaction except with themselves.

Pay a mission runner to "fleet" you.

Mission runner does missions and splits rewards, you get standing increases....

Basically, you can already buy standing over time, if you're willing to

On the surface it looks like that, but I could just as easily put up a thousand orders in a day and complete them all with an alt.




Will the mission-runner keep their end of the deal? Besides that, the mission-runner can raise their standing without enlisting direct outside assistance.

No way in hell or heaven !!!

All you need to trade is some easy to train for skill, turn on your computer spend a couple mins looking at a stupid window and log off do something else, play another game etc while vastly impacting the game with little to no effort.

NO NO NO AND let me repeat it again NO !!!

Trading characters are harmful on the large scheme of things and with current mechanics, no way in hell those should get ANY inch of advantage more they already have.

No way !! Those need to get nerf to the ground, not the other way around.