Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What would stop someone from rolling alts and using this to farm rewards from the level 4 COSMOS and Epic Arcs? Those can be very lucrative. The tags would have to cost more than those rewards, which means it would cost an arm and a leg.

There will be no other reward than standing boost.
Like i stated missions will not offer any LP or isk in return.

What is also important This will not be COSMOS missions.



First read about this :
https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Tags_for_Security

Here you trade specific tags for security status.
The whole point of putting this to lowsec is to make it available to every one , like in the tags for security .
If you care to read this topic i suggested there that it will be much easier to lose faction standings - but this can be implemented or not.


If getting back positive security status was ceded already to other people in exchange for isk , why the same cannot be applied to faction standings.

To gain security status you need to kill pirate rats.
To gain faction standings you need to kill pirate rats but on missions.

except those of us who would rather get stabbed in the kidneys with a blunt knitting needle than run missions.

we need a better way to gain faction standing.

derp, yes i see that, i can read i swear....need coffee

I approve of this idea, but instead of empire standing, it would better apply to standing to a particular corporation, as the initial grind to get to the good agents (L 3 and 4) Is most of the time more of an annoyance than an actual feeling of progress.

This would also be a good place to utilize some of the pirate faction tags, that have obscure uses and minimal market value. Every time i found one of those, i was like "u-u-u-u, shiny!" And then i figured that only 2-3 of them are actually worth anything. I still haven't found out what is the use of most of them.

How is it dead? There are still people offering services to improve standings to NPC corps for you. You still have to fly around to get to missions and back, or to do storylines. You are still in space to run the missions and thus can be intercepted, ambushed and PVPed. With more variety in missions types hopefully being added and old onces renewed, refurbished and/or improved (like I have suggested for 2 missions in other threads, as an expample), more people can enjoy this.

What you suggest, on the other hand, is just Covert Bridge a BR to a tag buying station (it's nothing else but buying tags, let's face it) and remain in station to sell the tags. There's only a very limited potential to intercept your hauler and you do not need to be in space to get your standing boosts. If you ask me, this system is a lot worse than what we have. The only "upside" is the easier standing gain and mistake rectification for all the lazy muppets out there of the Angry Bird and Farmville gamer generation. Personally, that is not an upside for me, catering to these people is a massive disfavor to the game.

They come from the market. Next to no one will first farm them themselves only to bring them to another seller as it would defeat the purpose of gaining status faster.
Just like with Tags for Sec, people will simply buy them from the market, bring them to a quiet Low sec buyer and be done with it. And where the Clone Soldiers haven't managed to bring significant numbers of people into Low sec, your Tags for Status will achieve it either.

Thanks for the link, however if you would actually read what was written iyou would clearly see that I am already fully aware that there are mechanics in game that allow you to trade tags for sec standing.




Again understanding what you read is key here. I stated these turn in locations need to be located in all areas of space except worm holes. I never said they should not be in low sec.




No one in the game should be able to trade tags for Faction standing, no one not ever. Under the current standings system in this game faction standings are to valuable to allow for anyone at any time to be able to buy them.

All this aside your idea still gets a -1 from me since it is a band-aide patch applied to an already broken system. We need CCP to replace that system not patch it to the benfit of a small portion of the players in the game.

It gets another -1 from me as it allows all players an easy way to work around the consequences to be paid for their chosen game play style. YOU chose to go out and shoot people thus lowering your standings, the consequences for those actions are low standings, the potential problems associated with those low standings and the GRIND to bring them back up.

NPC do not need to, people do. But it's the same people that already sell them. No increase in tags generation. On the other hand, more people will buy the tags instead of running missions to gain standings. So less people in space to shoot because they then only sit in stations and sell tags.

This should only be to fix negative standing, not to gain positive standing.
And the current 'buyback' methods are limited one time only deals, which sucks if you want to explore various options over your lifetime, so they are not appropriate methods.

This would be a much better use for tags than the LP store, which ends up massively overpricing a whole lot of items as well as so much micromanaging, meaning a whole lot of LP items never get used (Ok, maybe by crazy people but they see no regular use), and still keeps tags as having value to repair negative standing.