I used to FW most of my time but now, flying being neutral, I find it quite troublesome to travel in Caldari/Amarr hisec space due to Faction NPC aggression (and these lads are spawning even inside deadspace pocket!).
It means, I cannot stay in one place too long and I cannot use cloak (!).
So, I tried to fix it by doing lvl1 missions for Caldari and found that even after finishing a dozen of them (required to get a storyline which actually affects standing towards certain Faction) I had my standing improved by laughable value!
I don’t remember exactly, but I counted that I may need a month of two of miserable grinding to improve it to ‘safe’ level.
Sure, one should be punished hardly for being war criminal and blablabal… but FW doesn’t give much benefit comparing to what standing loss may do to you.
So.
How about to implement some kind of one-click solution for faction standing improvement - like you did with Security Status? Same could apply here as well.
Faction Tags, bribes, communal works - everything is acceptable - but for a reasonable ammount of time/money.
Player choice should have consequences ccp has already removed to much of this. Not to mention you are asking to add something the players provide and I cab think of a bigger taboo
Social skills help a lot with negative faction standings. Train them. Completing SoE Epic arc can be a moderate boost to any faction’s standings without negative effects (good luck doing missions in ‘hostile’ space tho).
Use an alt or ask a friend. Finish the final mission with them in fleet and in mission space and you get the standing. Rinse and repeat with as many friends as you have.
As far as I know the FACTION standing does not share between fleetmembers after completing the mission. Only corporation standing is behaving so.
Thanks for tips, anyway.