Missions & Complexes

I am in the process of trying to balance out my Empire faction standings. I have trained the relevant Social skills to Lvl 4 for now and am left with the current approximate adjusted standings:

Minmatar +2
Gallente +1
Caldari +0.5
Ammar -0.5

I would ideally like to try to keep them balanced but get them all rising to above +5. This is a long term aim. My question on achieving this is:

If I were to run 16 x Lvl 4 missions and a Storyline for one of the Minmatar corps, then repeat the process for an Ammar corp would the net effect be to raise all of them? This assumes I decline any mission which is against one of the relevant main factions.

On a recent Storyline, after completing a series of Lvl 3 missions for Ammar, I noticed that the changes were:

Ammar +0.11
Caldari +0.7
Gallente -0.2
Minmatar -0.6

Or does the net faction change alter the higher they are? ie Once the standings approach +5 will the loss start to outweigh the gain?

I already intend to begin on The Plan to get those standings kick started. I can currently run Lvl 4s for three different Minmatar corps and one Ammar corp, which is why I ask. I don't really want to go and grind Lvl 2s and Lvl 3s in both Gallente and Caldari space if I can avoid it, but it is an option.

EVE's best resource for faction standing information: https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Faction_Standing_Repair_Plan

Don't forget that, if you're looking to do it over a long term, you can always cycle through the epic arcs. It is possible, over a very long time period, to get high standings with all 4 major factions and no negative standings at all.

Thanks for the responses guys. Much appreciated.

So if I were to get them up to around +4, then recycle through the epic arcs to get them above +5 they should stay there if I were to decline any mission that would impact the 4 major factions and decline all Storylines?

The Repair Plan looks good and looks like it will keep me occupied for quite some time. It suggests that once the standings are up, then cycling through all four factions would keep it balanced but I guess that the balance point isn't as high as +5?

2 years doing the epic arcs for each faction every 90 days has me at;

Gallente 8.18
Minmitar 7.78
Caldari 6.18
Amarr 5.82

I started out with tanked Amarr standings (-3.??) so it has taken longer to fix. An alt of mine has 6.0 give or take .20 across the board in just over 18 months by alternating agents and doing the Epics every 90 days as well.

I agree... OP, send DMC a message in-game for some thoughts if The Plan doesn't answer your questions (assuming he doesn't post in this thread). He's the go-to guy for this kind of stuff.

Edit... Aaaaaand he's already posted in here! :)