EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello and welcome to Eve.

As you already know, completing Anti-Empire encounter missions for Tags to use in the Loyalty Points Store will definitely make you an enemy rather quickly causing Faction NPC's to attack. They're basically a nuisance and if you don't loiter in the area, you can pretty much evade them. However just remember you'll be hard pressed to do anything else other than quickly travel through that Factions space.

To counter that train up the Diplomacy skill when needed to stay above -5.00 Faction. That will allow you to enter enemy space without being attacked by their Faction NPC's. Eventually though the Diplomacy skill won't help and you'll have to either remain an enemy or complete some missions for Event Agents to regain Faction standing.

The 'Faction Standing Repair Plan' has various options and steps listed as well as guide links for Event Agents. The main thing to remember is 'The Plan' can be customized to fit your specific situation. You don't have to follow it step by step if you don't want to..

For example = If you just need a couple of quick injections of positive standing gain, then just complete the Data Center 'Cert' missions followed with a couple of 'Tag' missions if needed.

Hope this helps, good luck to you.


DMC

In all honesty it comes down to what you want to do in the game in what it sounds like you are doing there is no significant benefit or loss to having a negative faction standing as you are running missions. But if you choose to do something else, such as incursions or live in a wh this will hamper your flying as it will restrict movement and logistics. Most player who expect to end up with negative standing do it on an alt to allow mains free passage for pvp, or use hauling alts. Remember if you choose to change your game play you'll have to deal with the consequences.

For fun mostly, what's the combat power of the faction ships? Can they be dealt with? Do you collect a tag or two?

I have been -10 with the Minmatar Republic for the past 5 years or so. The only drawback I've ever noticed is the fact that if you undock and suffer a sudden lag spike or crash, you'll probably lose your ship to the NPCs. Shopping in Rens hasn't been that troublesome in battlecruisers and below.

The NPC ships get more powerful in higher security space, e.g. 0.5 NPCs are tanked quite easily whereas the damage and energy neutralization in 0.9 and 1.0 is insane. The NPCs have also exhibited broken E-WAR (broken webs and un-cancel-able warp) but I'm not sure whether that is still the case.