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Standings - Why? - How?

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Silver Dagger Kondur
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2014-02-07 22:20:00 UTC
Greets!

Some folks I chat with in-game keep mentioning STANDINGS. In a recent thread in EVE New Citizens, one said, buy them (STANDINGS).

Why do we care about STANDINGS?

If they are important, what can I do to improve them?
Can I buy them? Where? How?

What STANDINGS do I want to improve?

Thanks!
Thomas Builder
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-02-07 22:31:00 UTC
There are several kinds of standings in EVE.
You can have standings towards other players, player corps, player alliances, NPC agents, NPC corps and NPC factions.
Most of the time, when people are talking about standings, they talk about standings towards NPC corps and factions.

You gain them by running missions. You can pay someone to run missions and share the standing gain with you. If you only need the standings for a short period of time (e.g. to anchor a POS in high-sec), you can also pay someone to join your corp and boost the standings for that action.

Google 'EVE standings' for more info.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#3 - 2014-02-07 23:02:40 UTC
For the most part, standings refers to mission/research agents and the NPC corps they are attached to. The higher your standings, the better missions you can access.

As to buying standings. The most common way to do that is with tags. You buy the needed tags on the market and turn them in to one of the faction tag agents you'll find in various places. To fill in the gaps between tag standings since you need a minimum standing to use each one, you run COSMOS missions. Specifically the ones in which you can buy the mission completion items off the market and simply turn it in without actually doing any work.

Also each completed COSMOS mission gives you faction standings. Compare that to 1 in 16 regular missions for faction standing and it turns out to be a pretty sweet deal.

Mr Epeen Cool
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2014-02-08 00:24:42 UTC
If needed, you can easily repair negative Faction standings as well as boost positive Faction standings with 'The Plan'.


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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#5 - 2014-02-08 01:41:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
If you've played other MMo's think of standings as reputation. You increase them by running missions, as it increases so will the level of mission you have access to, it also reduces things like refining taxes.

Shooting at NPCs from another faction will reduce your standings them, if your standings drop far enough with one of the four main factions they tend to shoot at you when you're in their highsec space.

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Silver Dagger Kondur
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2014-02-08 05:58:03 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
..., if your standings drop far enough with one of the four main factions they tend to shoot at you when you're in their highsec space.


Can that be fixed by mission running?
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#7 - 2014-02-08 06:07:11 UTC
Silver Dagger Kondur wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
..., if your standings drop far enough with one of the four main factions they tend to shoot at you when you're in their highsec space.


Can that be fixed by mission running?


Yes, but even easier is just training the social skill called Diplomacy. With it maxed you'll be able to go anywhere with no worries, no matter how badly you tanked your faction standings..

Mr Epeen Cool
Silver Dagger Kondur
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2014-02-08 06:14:04 UTC
OK, thanks! Will add Diplomacy to my training queue!
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#9 - 2014-02-08 20:04:21 UTC
I have removed a rule breaking post and those quoting it.

The rules:
18. New player bashing will not be tolerated.

New members of the EVE Online community are encouraged to use, but are not restricted to the EVE New Citizens Q&A forum. This forum is specifically designed to provide a platform for those who are new to the EVE community to ask questions and learn more about EVE. More experienced forum users are encouraged to participate by assisting new players with helpful and courteous responses. All flaming, trolling and posts of a derogatory nature will be deleted, and will be considered a severe breach of the forum rules.

And to the OP, you might also want to take a look at this EVElopedia article.

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