I switched corps because my old corp was inactive. My old corp, Megacorporation based, was Asintec; my relationship ratio with them was 4 to 5. This was based on the outpost that we owned and what beta island I was on. I am currently in my 24 hour penalty until I can join a new corp. All my other relationships are around negative 2.0 with Truhold Markson and ICS because all I did were Asintec assignments. The corp I plan  on joining is Truhold Markson based so I started doing level one assignments right ? WRONG, few patches ago they decided to change it, (why, idk), where you can't  do level one assignments; you start off with rookie assignments. Rookie assignments are only giving me .02 per assignment (btw my diplomacy is level 5). In conclusion, negative 2.0 with 9 corps that are affiliated with Truhold Markson, will take my 900 assignments just to get back to zero and I still can not do level one assignments because you have to have positive .21 ( I believe)

Please tell me this is not the right formula? Shouldn't Rookie assignments give a bonus relationship ratio to put you in the positive and keep you interested in the game? Not hold you back and want to quit?!

Devs, gm anyone care to comment, thoughts, ideas, or opinions.

                                Thanks, WarBlade

Done in the Friday patch.  Yes it sucks, I've been going back and forth with Dev Zoom and Dev Calvin in 2 different threads for hours.  I hope they change it back to giving people access to lvl 1 assignments and not forcing people to grind "training" for access.

Oh, and FYI for the moment it's considered working as intended.  They are aware and defending this behavior, so did GM Oley when I spoke with him about it yesterday in game when I first noticed since I had started my 3rd account.

Good point, it's not intended.
Taking a look at it, will be fixed really soon.
(The part about negative standing grinding with 900 missions)

DEV Mancs wrote:

Good point, it's not intended.
Taking a look at it, will be fixed really soon.
(The part about negative standing grinding with 900 missions)

A really strange "fix" you have come up with - increasing standing gain for Lev1 missions

The problem was that people with negative standings can nolonger do Level 1, this latest patch does nothing to help. (assuming the patch notes are accurate and complete)