Science & Industry

Discipline and support as far as corps go. I've been in a corp with 50+ pilots which successfully maintains an average standing above 5.0 across all pilots.

Why are towers not cut out when standings drop before 5.0 for the corp? No clue. The standings system is a bit archaic and it's easy to "play" the system - as you say it's what most people do. There was a suggestion at one point for standings to have an effect on the towers which were online in the way of taxes or fuel consumption - lower the actual corp standings the more you'd have to pay but this only really would benefit those pilots who know how to play the system, as opposed to really providing a solution. Leaving this as they are is a very imperfect solution but alternative systems are not something you are going to be able to hack in one afternoon.

When recruiting pilots if you want to keep average corp standings above a certain level for whatever reason, be upfront about it, explain why it needs to happen and provide support to make it happen. Getting faction standings to 8.0 or so is not really that hard and once you have a few pilots at that level you can afford to have pilots with lower standing joining up, and going through the same process. Give them a month or so to get to 5.0 standings (should be more than enough for someone who knows the game, a bit more complex for new players but it can also be done).

They are trying to promote industry in null sec, CCP isn't going to make it easier to do industry specifically in highsec anytime soon.

This actually protects small corps in high sec from big low/null powers influence. If one person is enough in a corp to set up a POS in highsec then big corps/alliances would be able to take down all POSs in a zone and selling the place for high rent price. This way they don't want to kick all members just to do this. Not worth the effort.

I'm hoping they open up 0.8 systems, if you have standings of at least 8.0.

actually it used to be much more complex than now.

the standing 'drifted' slowly towards the average between members, so you had to wait several weeks for the standing to update after low standing members quitting the corp, which pretty much made this tactic unexploitable.

then they changed it to be instant update during each downtime, in order to decrease downtime duration, which pretty much made the whole corp standing system pointless.

so i guess they do need to revisit this part of game after that update, somehow.

And a big high-sec alliance can't do this why?

EVE Uni


On the other end of the scale:
Privateers
MOAR TEARS
Orphans



BTL and TDF have their various circlejerks as well, if I recall correctly.

The standings requirement are a minor hurdle. If you're serious about tossing up a POS in high-sec, you're going to either pay someone to alter your standings or do the grind yourself -- which isn't THAT horrible. On the flip side, putting up a POS in null/low sec isn't extremely difficult as they require no "standings" but do require some actual effort to defend as there is always the risk that someone will come along and blow your **** up.

As I understand it, there isn't a whole lot of null sec industry simply because of the risk versus reward of cooking up a long duration job while running the risk someone comes into your territory and curb stomps you. You have industrialists that do capital construction as you can't do that in high sec, but what gain is there for an industrialist out in null sec/low sec who can do his/her industry in the relative peace of high sec and and just jump freighter? Why even bother when you can toss up a POS in high sec, grab rocks from Jita, cook your gear, dump it into a JF, make a jump to lowsec and then cyno out to null? Where is the incentive when there is so much risk involved?

I think there is a lot they can improve on when it comes to POS mechanics but the requirement of standings is so far down the list it' a minor inconvenience.