3/7 What does it mean?
I do the missions and when I click on the tab to bring up the list of mission givers each one has a number such as 0/0 or 1/2
I had one go up to 5/5 then immediately after the next successful mission it was 0/0
Are these eye candy or do they mean something?
Number of missions
you are qualified to run (based on REP level, RANK, ship size, etc.) vs. the total number of missions the faction has available to be run.
When you click on a faction it's missions are shown at right with "available" missions (that you qualify for) listed first and "unavailable" missions (that you do not qualify for) listed second. The unavailable missions will always show an explanation of why you do not qualify for a particular mission (ship too small, too large, not enough faction REP, RANK too low, etc.) so that you can see what you need to do to become qualified to run the (usually more lucrative) missions. Sometimes all they want is a cash "donation mission" to raise your REP, sometimes raising your REP enough that you qualify to run previously unavailable missions.