Epic Arcs for Standing Recovery
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Raised by: Ankhesentapemkah
Submission Date: 16-04-09
Issue ID: 0203-03-0131
Summary
Quote by Herschel Yamamoto:
At present, it's possible to get to a point where your standings with a faction simply cannot be recovered. If you're -10 to the Caldari State and everyone who they like, and you've used some of the one-time-only tag offers already, you cannot ever recover under current game mechanics. This is an even bigger problem with pirate factions, which do not (I believe) have similar tag offers and are thus simply unrecoverable. There have been a lot of ideas brought up in the past for how to fix this problem, but the recent addition of epic mission arcs has brought up one that seems more satisfactory than most of the others.
For each faction, have an epic mission arc based in lowsec(for empire factions) or 0.0(for pirate factions) that has as its overall reward a 25% boost to faction standings, enough to recover from -10 base to a missionable -2 with Diplomacy 5 trained, and make it so that there is no standing requirement whatsoever to do the missions. This will of course produce penalties to opposed faction standings just like any normal storyline mission. It will require an investment of time roughly equal to the time required to rat yourself from -10 sec status to -2, and with smaller cash rewards. Ideally, these will also be highly dispersed missions, perhaps even randomly located, so that they can't simply be camped. Also, it should not simply be a succession of L4 combat missions. I want to see manufacturing, mining, courier, and combat at a minimum, with it starting with low-trust missions(obscene collateral on couriers, manufacturing missions where they give you next to nothing so you can't just steal it, etc.), and then working up to the point where they actually might trust you a little bit. The exact issues of plot and mission construction can be left up to the devs, but that is what I'm thinking of when I propose this.
I believe that this will both expand the rather nifty idea of epic mission arcs to a point where more people will make use of them, and it will allow players to recover serious negative standings, as has been requested for a very long time, in a way that is reasonable both in terms of game mechanics and storyline.
Goals
- More factions to run Epic Arcs for
- Way to recover pirate factions
- More variety for Epic Arcs
- Provides introduction to the pirate factions for experienced newer players (not newbies)
