Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My suggestion is fairly simple, but can be done in a few different ways.

1) Allow a player to denounce a faction they have good standing with in order to set their standing with another faction to 0.0
I.E. I have good standing with gallente, but terrible standing with Amarr. Denounce Gallente standing to half of what it is in order to bring Amarr standing up to 0.0

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2) Allow a player to trade sec status for faction standings, but only usable for players with negative faction standing and possitive sec status.

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3) Add agents for each faction that give you tasks that are a bit on the shady side. While not necissarily "illegal" in nature, they are frowned apon by secuirty forces, so you will lose sec status, but gain faction rep.

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4) Add agents that allow players to gain faction standings via the bounty system, however, that agents will only allow you to choose between bounties on players with negative standing towards that faction. You will also not be rewarded with the bounty money, because that money will be given to CONCORD to look the other way while you blow this person up. In other words, you'll be able to kill the person you've selected in high sec without being concorded.
This method would only be used by player looking to build faction standing because their will be no isk payout, only faction standing.

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5) Much like neural remaps, give characters a once a year opportunity to bring their faction standing with one and ONLY ONE faction, but in doing so, their neural remap for the year will be used up as well. It will reset their standing with the selected faction back to 0.0 unmodified.

Not sure if anyone will like these ideas, but i'm sure most of us with negative standing towards a faction would like a much simpler, or at least somewhat quicker, but limited method to get our standing back to 0.0

Not really, took a lot less time to ruin faction standing than it will be to get it back up.

Like i said though, each of these methods has a consequence if used.

Option one, you lose standing with one faction but balance you standing with another

option two, lose sec status, but gain faction standing. You also can't get more rep than you have sec status.

option 3, you have to run missions, and you lose sec status, but all the rep you earn is geared towards faction

option 4, you have to pvp, you don't get the bounty reward, but you can kill in high sec, and you can gain faction standing

option 5, you lose a neural remap, but you balance faction standing, but limited to only one faction per year. So it would take you 4 years to build standing with all 4 main factions if you used this method for all of them.



However, in every case, you cannot use either method to increase your standings above 0.0 unmodified. So once you get your standings back to 0.0 with either method, you must resort back you building possitive standings the way you normally would.