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Faction increase for repairing other players
Repairing other players in a monitored sector should give a small amount of faction increase if the target is high in standing - admired or better.
Heh, neat idea, but couldn't that be used to cheat standing?
+1, as long as repping a typical fighter ship from 1% to 100% yields no more bonus than killing a bot.
It wouldn't really be exploitable that way, Arf. First of all, rep guns have ammo (exception: turrets). If your standing is low enough that you can't dock, repping people in that space isn't going to get you very far unless you have access to a friendly capship for RR. Well, with the exceptions of Azek, Nyrius, and Verasi, where you could dock at a friendly station - but that would still be inefficient, as you'd have to dock, then fly off to a normal UIT sector to do the repping, then return to reload.
Plus, even if you go with a rep turret so the reloads aren't an issue, or have a capship handy, you have to do this in a monitored sector. If the sector is monitored, the SF is going to crash the party. If you have to dodge them while you rep the other guy, you might as well just go kill bots.
If your standing is high enough to dock, you'd have access to more efficient ways to repair standing (missions).
It wouldn't really be exploitable that way, Arf. First of all, rep guns have ammo (exception: turrets). If your standing is low enough that you can't dock, repping people in that space isn't going to get you very far unless you have access to a friendly capship for RR. Well, with the exceptions of Azek, Nyrius, and Verasi, where you could dock at a friendly station - but that would still be inefficient, as you'd have to dock, then fly off to a normal UIT sector to do the repping, then return to reload.
Plus, even if you go with a rep turret so the reloads aren't an issue, or have a capship handy, you have to do this in a monitored sector. If the sector is monitored, the SF is going to crash the party. If you have to dodge them while you rep the other guy, you might as well just go kill bots.
If your standing is high enough to dock, you'd have access to more efficient ways to repair standing (missions).
Yeah this would just be a tiny way to help standing - mostly for the EMS type guys. I suppose someone could exploit it but as pizza pointed out there are a better and safer ways.
Doesn't really hurt anything, doesn't much help anything either...
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+1! The standing you should get would depend on how much % you repair, though. Maybe if you're in nation space, you'd get a little tip from that nation for repairing its pilots.
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