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Fastest way to grind up standings for an alt
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Arboledaw2
Sakura Holdings
#1 - 2011-10-26 22:46:49 UTC
So account 1 has my main, who has good combat skills and can easily run L4 missions in his Raven. He's got some smaller/faster ships for lower level missions.

I have toons on account 2, with absolutely no combat skills, that I'd like to get up to a 5.0 standing with an R&D corp (Carthum, think that's the name). My primary toon on account 1 already has 5.0 standings with this corp and there are L4 mission agents in the corp. Which do you think would be faster:

A - Fleet up primary and alt. Have the primary get and complete L4 missions and split the rewards. Rinse and repeat till alt has 5.0 standings with the corp.

B - Fleet up primary and alt. Have the alt get L1 missions, the primary actually does the work to kill all the baddies, alt turns in the mission and does not split the rewards. As standings for the alt increase, use L2 mission agent, then L3, and finally get up to 5.0 standing.

Hope my question makes sense...
Nadine Le'Slut
The-Four-HorseMen
#2 - 2011-10-26 22:51:07 UTC
A is much faster

dont forget to get social skills up asap
Arboledaw2
Sakura Holdings
#3 - 2011-10-26 23:05:51 UTC
OK, that's what I was hoping because A will bring in some more ISKies than B as well. Thanks for the tip on the social skills as well.
Goose99
#4 - 2011-10-27 01:14:48 UTC
Standing gain shared in a fleet of 2 is halved. It's a good idea to grind alt up to standing of 3 instead of 5, then pull lvl3s and not share rewards in fleet for full standing gain. For a high skill toons, lvl4s will give more standing gain than lvl3s for the same amount of time, but not if lvl4 gains are halved and lvl3s are not.
Prophet Mandalore
#5 - 2011-10-27 02:18:56 UTC
Get the social skills, and then do A.
Kesshisan
#6 - 2011-10-27 07:28:00 UTC
There is a faster way:

Have your main share rewards with your alt until the alt has >5.00 standings with the AGENT. At that point the alt can get missions from that one agent (but not any other agent in the corp.) Then pull all missions with the alt and stop sharing.

At this point the alt will need to warp in the fleet/squad, so the alt will need to undock and travel to the system. It adds a bit of extra logistics, but you are no longer splitting your rewards, instead the alt takes 100% of the standings gain.

This works exceptionally well with L3 agents if you have a ship which can blitz level 3s.
Zyrbalax III
Goldcrest Enterprises
#7 - 2011-10-27 10:13:46 UTC
I'm doing pretty much the same thing myself right now. My alt is an industrialist though, so I'm running security missions with my main and sharing rewards, while the alt runs mining missions in the background and keeps the rewards from that. Lvl 3 mining missions being pretty easy to afk (so far!).