First the Facts:

NPC faction is divided in three conglomerates,
each conglomerate is dived into 3 NPC corps (combat, industrial, logistic/intel)
each NPC corp offers assignments to raise your standing with them.

each Combat corp standing unlocks you three tiers of sparks for the factions prefered weapon
each Logistic/intel corp standing unlocks you three tiers of sparks for combat support/defense
each Industrial corp standing unlocks you three tiers of sparks for the factional ore

and only the insdustrial corp standing also grants you points in:
- recycling
- repair
- production
- prototyping
- reverse engineering
- refining

My issue:
a few sparks for min/maxing your build vs. bonus in every industrial facility of that conglomerate.
The later is useless if your owning a gamma outpost wher you get maximum standing by default, and the first ones are more a chore to get then the bonus they provide.

My request:
Combat standing

• make it affect at least repair facility, not cummulative with industrial standing but parallel (using the number that is higher)

• eventually same for recycling

• make it drop syndicate shop token prices for ammo

• add more sparks!

• eventually unlock outpost buffs

Logistic standing:

• make it affect the insurance payout (depending in which terminal you have been)

• connect it to market extension like "multiply max orders by standing factor"

• add more sparks

• affect spark teleport cost

• unlock special NPC orders on market like cheaper teleport beacons.

Oh, and i almost forgot:

ADD MORE SPARKS, especially one for Harvesting (3% higher yield + speed up locktime)