If you have not done so, please read the introduction post here.

Standings
Standings, simply put, are your relationship to a specific corporation. The general idea is that as you gain standings to each side of factional contracts your rewards for that side go up as well. This gives you incentive to gain higher standings and to keep it high. We are not ready to give out exact numbers yet, but at each level of standings (1 through 10) the amount of loyalty points paid out at the end of a match would change. The higher the standings, the higher the reward.

I generally agree, particularly given how little effect you individually have on the outcome of a battle, but I like the incentive to win. So, I'd prefer a much-reduced standings gain for an FW loss...somewhere in the 10-20 range.

Scrubs need love too.

If you have not done so, please read the introduction post here.

Standings
Standings, simply put, are your relationship to a specific corporation. The general idea is that as you gain standings to each side of factional contracts your rewards for that side go up as well. This gives you incentive to gain higher standings and to keep it high. We are not ready to give out exact numbers yet, but at each level of standings (1 through 10) the amount of loyalty points paid out at the end of a match would change. The higher the standings, the higher the reward.

Gaining and Losing Standings
You gain standings when you win a factional contract match. At the same time however you lose some standings to the opposing side. So if you win a battle for the Gallente you will gain standings with the Federal Marines and lose standings towards the State Peacekeepers. If you play a match from beginning to end and win you will gain 50 points of standings toward the side you won for and you will lose 10 points of standing for the side you fought against. If you lose the match you do not gain or lose any standings period.

Fancy graph:
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Faction Boosters Boosting Standings
We will be adding 4 new boosters to the game that you can buy for Aurum from the market. The prices for these new faction boosters has not yet been decided. These boosters will do several things. Firstly, they will increase your standings reward by 50% for the appropriate faction. So if you buy the Gallente booster and play for Gallente in factional contracts and you would have gotten 50 standing points you would instead get 75 with the Gallente booster. Secondly, they will prevent you from losing standings to the selected side by fighting for the other side. So if you play for the Caldari side and have a Gallente booster you will not lose standings to the Gallente as you normally would.

In the introductory post, it stated if you lose enough standings with a faction you would no longer be able to join in the battle on that facion's side. How would a mercenary locked out of factional warfare regain standings with that corporation if they are unable to fight for them in the factional warfare battle?

Faction Boosters Boosting Standings
We will be adding 4 new boosters to the game that you can buy for Aurum from the market. The prices for these new faction boosters has not yet been decided. These boosters will do several things. Firstly, they will increase your standings reward by 50% for the appropriate faction. So if you buy the Gallente booster and play for Gallente in factional contracts and you would have gotten 50 standing points you would instead get 75 with the Gallente booster. Secondly, they will prevent you from losing standings to the selected side by fighting for the other side. So if you play for the Caldari side and have a Gallente booster you will not lose standings to the Gallente as you normally would.