EVE General Discussion

Make friends with a Rorqual pilot.

Train the relevant social skills and be sure to run security missions from an agent in as low security status as possible. My experience is that you get more standings per mission that way but I could be wrong.

However, the LP rewards are substantially better. And make sure to blitz the missions, don't stick around to loot or salvage, it's not worth it. You could probably sell your bookmarks to one of the salvage corps. They pay you a share of the profits.

like others have said, train connections and social to at least 4, 5 if you can handle it. Also, do your best to not think of it as grinding standings.

I like to look at it as making explosions. Sure they're not the most fun explosions to make, but they are explosions!

you know what, if they had low sec npcs that dropped faction standings tags like they do sec status tags, i'd be tempted to go in to low sec when i get bored and try and find some tags.

edit: actually, **** that i'd be more likely to just run incursions and buy them since i doubt i'd find enough to make it worth my while... however they'd still be awesome and add content for some other scrub.

A good level 4 mission ship to run them ASAP with social skills and a weekend where everybody is told to f*ck off and leave you alone will do the job.

Sisters of eve is prob the easiest to grind, depending how experienced you are with null sec

ROIR has three lvl3 and one lvl2 distribution agents in the same station making getting story lines easy. The transport missions only lead to JC which is two jumps away. Sometime the missions lead to the other station within ROIR

Cargo is never more than 4000m3

The storyline mission is usually always that ore mission which they sell at that station
And sometimes they give you a combat mission that raises your corp standing by 13%


Having connections 5 and social 5 makes grinding that standing much easier as well

Sisters of eve also have stations in a lot of regions and all their stations have clone services



If you're only after standings for JCs look for a station that has many distribution agents, the whole point is to farm for the storyline missions

Making grinding standings bearable is impossible

unless CCP changes how missions work.
They should of removed most of the repeat mission agents and vastly improved and expanded COSMOS missions and epic arcs


Also, making storyline missions ACTUALLY a storyline mission would make sense

This may be a sandbox but theres no reason why this game shouldn't have a LONG playable storyline for each faction


CCP just being lazy and not looking at other successful games for inspiration/ideas

Look up "faction standings repair plan" for ways to boost your...faction standings if for some reason you absolutely insist on not using a convenient clone service.

If your logic is solo new-players/PvP-alts should be able to get jump clones with minimal effort why not just eliminate the standing altogether ?

TBH anyone in a sizable player corp should already have jump clone access and even solo PvPers hiding in a newbie school to avoid war decs can get a standing of 8.0 without too much effort. Many people have it with dozens of corps.

However if the standing needed actually is an issue, just eliminate it. Don't muck around fiddling with the amount, there will be always someone unhappy with it.

Lot of people in this thread don't understand the difference between faction, corp and sec status.
You can do the data centers to get faction standing high, put up a pos, still not be able to install a JC anywhere.
You can shoot rats until you go 5.0, still no JC availability.
You need 8.0 with the desired corporation to install a jump clone.
Estel Arador or plug yourself into that chair for a long grind.

2 fast routes:

1) rorqual - takes few minutes - no need to join anything - just be around the ship
2) factional warfare missions - takes only few days of light playing to get to 8 - caldari are easy and fast as you can do them in stealth bomber