Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I beileve currently there is a problem with the COSMOS missions and the standing increase that you get once you complete them. The problem is that the standings increase vary a lot depending on how fast other people have completed the missions for this particular agent (at this point I'm not certain whether it's only the time of the last mission, or the time of all the missions for an agent).
For example:
I had 4.25 standing with Caldari. I did a level 2 mission and that pushed me to 4.50 standing with Caldari for a total of 0.25 increase. After that, I did a level 3 mission and my standing after that became 4.52 for a total of 0.02 increase.

Am I the only one that sees a problem with a level 3 COSMOS agent giving me a standing increase that is less than 1/10th of the standing increase I get from a level 2 agent?
In case someone is wondering, the standing increase doesn't seem to depend on what type of agent the mission is for. I got a 0.05 increase from a level 3 Security COSMOS agent.

If we go back to the cause of this, there are a few possible causes that I believe affect how fast a mission is completed.
-1- Quite a few of the items are available through contracts
-2- Most COSMOS missions are concentrated in a few complexes. For Caldari, a couple might be the Contested Caldari Lai Dai Refinery and the Contested Kazka Headquarters. What I did was find what items I needed for COSMOS quests from a complex and I went and got all of them. What this means is that when the agent asks me for a particular item, I already have it in my cargo but that doesn't mean that the mission is quick, it's just that I had invested the time before starting the mission.
-3- Allowing advanced ships (i.e. Tengu) in some of these complexes allows players to finish them very quickly


Does this need to be fixed? In my opinion it does, currently the agent level is good only to show you what standing you need before starting it (for level 2 you need a 2.0 standing, for level 3 you need a 4.0 standing). Also,
If you don't think that's the standings for COSMOS need to be fixed, I'd like to hear your reason.

If this needs to be fixed, how can it be fixed? I'm not certain, a couple of ideas that come to mind are
-1-
Avoid farming and contract sells by spawning the COSMOS items only for people that have started the COSMOS mission. This would also fix the problem that one might get when he goes looking for a loot that is supposed to spawn from belt rats, only to find most of them already killed by the miners.
Also if someone is wondering about farming items that are needed for BPC-s, well I don't think anybody is farming for that since those BPC-s are worthless in their current state. I think that anybody that has done Cosmos missions knows that, if you need me to provide more detailed reasons, I'd be happy to elaborate further.

-2-
Change how the standings are given so that they are not determined by the time that the user takes to complete the mission. If you want both an older player with a Tengu and a young player with a Caracal to do the same mission, than you should be ok with them taking different amounts of time to finish the missions.