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To reduce broker fees, do you need to increase standings with faction or station owner?

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Jake Salvator
Doomheim
#1 - 2013-01-01 13:14:04 UTC
I'm looking at creating a Jita Trading alt.

Do reduce my broker fees, do I need to increase my standings with Caldari Navy Assembly Plant or the Caldari State to reduce the broker fees?

Thanks in advance.

-- Salvator
Merouk Baas
#2 - 2013-01-01 13:27:23 UTC
I believe the rule is "whichever you have higher will apply," so the easiest to raise is actually with Caldary Navy, cause it's just one corp. And if you want to do it with mininmal influence on the standings with Caldari, Gallente, Minmatar, and Amarr empire standings, you just do regular missions for Navy agents and decline all story/important missions (and also decline any mission that sends you against Navy or Fleet NPCs of the opposite empire).
Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
#3 - 2013-01-01 14:50:00 UTC
Both actually.
This chart is probably what you are looking for.
Be aware, however, that CCP raised the market taxes a while ago, so it might not be up to date.

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-01-01 15:00:55 UTC
Jake Salvator wrote:
I'm looking at creating a Jita Trading alt.

Do reduce my broker fees, do I need to increase my standings with Caldari Navy Assembly Plant or the Caldari State to reduce the broker fees?

Thanks in advance.

-- Salvator


Both.

And unless you want to fight as 0.01 ISK war against trading bots, I suggest any other place then Jita to start trading.

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Jake Salvator
Doomheim
#5 - 2013-01-02 00:46:51 UTC
Thanks for your help :-)

That chart was particularly helpful.

- Salvator
Aptenodytes
Reckless Abandon
#6 - 2013-01-02 10:39:17 UTC
COSMOS missions are an incredibly useful and fast way of raising Caldari State standings. Quite a lot of boring farming though, unless you simply buy the mission items from contracts.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2013-01-03 06:40:48 UTC
I'm surprised nobody mentioned skills, specifically :

Broker Relations
Proficiency at driving down market-related costs. Each level of skill grants a 5% reduction in the costs associated with setting up a market order, which usually come to 1% of the order's total value. This can be further influenced by the player's standing towards the owner of the station where the order is entered.

Accounting
Proficiency at squaring away the odds and ends of business transactions, keeping the check books tight. Each level of skill reduces transaction tax by 10%.

There's a lot more skills available pertaining to Trade.


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