Just a few ideas i thought I'd toss around for better ways to gain faction.

Make combat missions that are given from specific factions (just like trading missions) and will result in larger chunks of gained faction. Or, make these missions similar to the current combat missions except allow botting for this mission to add faction for the respective group.

Boost the faction gained from current missions/botting.

Okay... so i guess by a few i meant two, but if anyone else has ideas feel free to contribute!

So your saying that the station you initiate the combate mission should be the one that you gain the faction in? If so I agree comepletely. Also, the different stations should assign different kinds of bots as targets, would make taking missions from different stations a little more interesting. But again, I'm sure the devs aready know all this [hopefully] and are working to fix it.

It would be nice if prospecting missions gave a few faction points also. maybe 2 or 3 for completing the mission.

It'd also be really nice to be able to defect from one faction to another. It wouldn't be an easy process, but some UIT players have wanted to side with the Itani or the Serco, and have had to create all new characters and work all the way up from the beginning. One or two Itani players have expressed the interest to defect to the Serco, and it'd be nice to let them change their allegiance without having to change their characters.

Also for Corvus and other less reptuable people you should be able to buy your way to standing. In general for anyone who provides goods in demand should get standing.