Suggestion - instead of having the faction standing be a static number (that only actions affect it), why not have it more dynamic? While your actions affect your standing, based upon what faction you are in, your standing will (over time) drift towards a set value. For example: Your faction begins with a standing of 0 for UIT, so if you manage to raise or lower it, over time it would drift back to 0 (if left for long enough, and you did not do any actions that affected that standing).

It'd make life easier for those who have gotten stuck on kill on sight status, and it'd also make it a lot more work to have the upper end of the standings (like 900+)... and it'd also mimic real life (people forget over time...).

The only Person who will like this, might be a griefer, because this behavour will support the bad boys only. I am against it.

It'd affect both ends of the spectrum... and actually, one of the devs said that he liked it better than the current system =) (hey, its more realisitic - and it allows mistakes to actually be corrected... I killed a 0/0/0/0 on my first day without knowing what I was doing... and now I'm KOS by UIT)

So you become buddies with someone and over time they may not like like you anymore, after no fault on your part? Sounds like junior high.

I feel for your situation, JediLow, but I think there's better solutions for clearing you KOS status than sitting around waiting for it to get better. There should be better opportunities to _actively_ work on repaying UIT society for your misdeed.

Not to toot my own horn, but you sound like a poster child for my proposal: http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/7310

The thing is, after time people forget things - likewise after time the faction would forget who specifically you are, and revert more to what you are (your faction). It'd mean that once you hit the "Admire" standing, it'd take work to keep it going, and on the other end, if you hit the hated standings, then you'd have some chance at redemption.