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Caldari Navy & Gallente
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Mertosk solette
Whares wally
#1 - 2012-05-06 22:04:28 UTC
So yeah I have been running missions for Caldari navy, which has been affecting my standings with Gallente -2.80 atm :(

My question is should I keep going and keep lowering my standings ? or start repairing my standings with them ?
Tau Cabalander
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Working Stiffs
#2 - 2012-05-06 22:14:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Your options:

A. Decline missions and storylines that require you to shoot player faction ships or structures (look for an Amarr / Caldari / Gallente / Minmatar faction icon in the mission briefing). You can decline once every 4 hours per agent (use multiple agents and/or multiple corps in the same faction). This will keep you from dropping further, though you will not get faction dog tag drops anymore (except from some mercenaries which are okay to destroy).

B. Repair your Gallente standing by doing storylines for Sisters of EVE, whom are so slightly negative to Amarr and Caldari that the loss is insignificant (whaever you gain with Sisters of EVE, you gain 48% of that to Gallente, gain 15% to Minmatar, lose 6% to Amarr, and lose 1.5% to Caldari).

C. Do storylines for Gallente corps, though this will quickly damage your Caldari standing of course (whatever you gain to Gallente, you lose 50% of that to Caldari).

I use options `A' and `B', as I primarily run Amarr and Caldari missions, and the Caldari epic arc Penumbra that requires you to shoot at Gallente ships. I try to keep Gallente and Minmatar above -2.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Faction_Standing_Repair_Plan
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=10212&find=unread

I have an alt with high Caldari Navy standing (over 9) and no negative or positive standing to any player factions, because he always declines player faction kill missions, and never accepts storylines.

If you do option `A' and accept storylines that are not faction kill missions, you will never drop below -5 (or -2 with Diplomacy 5), but only if your standing started undamaged. Player faction and structure kills (structures are more damaging to standing) are the only way to get below -5.
malaire
#3 - 2012-05-07 06:52:23 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
A. Decline missions and storylines that require you to shoot player faction ships or structures (look for an Amarr / Caldari / Gallente / Minmatar faction icon in the mission briefing). You can decline once every 4 hours per agent (use multiple agents and/or multiple corps in the same faction). This will keep you from dropping further, though you will not get faction dog tag drops anymore (except from some mercenaries which are okay to destroy).

You would need to decline ALL storyline missions since they allways affect faction standings.

When I was doing missions I declined normal missions against empire factions and ALL storyline missions, to keep standings.

You can see faction logo here: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1201/2012.01.09.13.24.14.jpg (If there is no logo there, that usually means drones or mercenaries, which don't affect faction standings. You can also right click on logo if you don't recognise it.)

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Tau Cabalander
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Working Stiffs
#4 - 2012-05-07 07:24:46 UTC
malaire wrote:
You would need to decline ALL storyline missions since they allways affect faction standings.

As I posted above, you cannot go below -5 (or -2 with Diplomacy 5) from just doing storylines. You have to shoot faction ships or structures to drop below that.
Aggressive Nutmeg
#5 - 2012-05-07 08:22:03 UTC
I decline all regular L4 missions against empire factions, but always do the storyline missions.

Yes, the opposing faction(s) take a standings hit in storyline missions but the bonus to friendly empire faction standings outweighs it.

As long as you do missions for opposing empire factions (which I do), in the long run you will have good standings with all empires.

It's a slow 3-steps-forward, 2-steps-back process but it suits my style of play for now.

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Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#6 - 2012-05-08 18:31:28 UTC
Option (D) is to just pick one or the other and deal with the faction of the one you don't pick going to ****. That's honestly what I'd recommend, while declining non-storyline missions against empire factions is definitely a good idea I would advise against micromanaging your standings as a new player.

Pick a corporation, get access to L3s/L4s (whichever you can run without too much trouble), then pick another corporation with the same empire affiliation, repeat. Don't get into sweating the small stuff until you've been playing a while, or even worry too much about when you screw up and, say, accidentally click "accept" on a mission you meant to decline. Worrying too much about it reduces the fun part of missioning, i.e. ganging up with newer players and blowing their enemies away while they tank.
Kalli Brixzat
#7 - 2012-05-08 20:21:23 UTC
Just decline or time-out all missions vs. empire factions. Yes, (example) the caldari storyline missions will **** on your Gallente rep. Will it be a lot? Nope. Over a long enough timeline, you can get it down to -5.0, but that's a LONG time. With your diplomacy skill, it would be nigh impossible to get below -2.0, with which you are still safe in Gallente space (i.e. not SOS).

When your rep get near -3.0, just go do some Sisters of Eve missions. A storyline or two and you're good to go. Not to mention that you can buy some SOE Core Probe Launchers for use or sale back in Jita.