Today, I awoxed in Amarr fw to help the Minmatar, and got banned from all fw. I was thinking, why would I not be able to accept a contract from the Republic if I was killing their enemy? Sure, I can understand being banned from Amarr, but, if anything, I should recieve additional standings or LP from the Minmatar, right? Or at least not be banned from the Minmatar fw?

So you want to see a bunch of amarr guys team killing min and bunch of min guys team killing amarr? Sounds like a real fun battle.

So you want to see a bunch of amarr guys team killing min and bunch of min guys team killing amarr? Sounds like a real fun battle.

Just for argument's sake lets think about this as if we were employers of mercenaries. I hire you and 15 other mercenaries to take over compound. You decide that even though I am paying you, you don't like me, and proceed to kill the other mercenaries I've hired. I black-list you as a result. No one wants to hire you since there is no guaranty that your Benedict Arnold nature won't take over once again causing you to kill more people.

A group hiring a mercenary isn't going to care that he team killed in order to help an opposing faction he is more aligned with. The issue to those employers is that you didn't finish the job you were hired to do, and stopped/impeded your co-workers from doing the same. If anything team killing should simply lower your standing with all employers not just the one you are working for when you AWOX.

On a side note I don't think 24hr. bans should be a thing. Rather, I feel that once you team kill you get a 'team killer aggression timer' over your head, that all your team mates can see, allowing them to team kill you without penalty for 3 min. or so. This is a sandbox game and letting people choose to team kill with few built in penalties and a greater emphasis on player driven penalties is definitely the way to go.