EVE General Discussion

Since I primarily run research agents for Gallente Federation, my standing with the Caldari State have fallen pretty low. So I've been slowly working on some level one and two combat missions to help boost my ratings. So while doing a mission, I got a chat request, and attempting to be helpful with my limited knowledge, I replied and was asked if I was doing missions and if so, could this person join since they needed the faction too.

Since this is EVE and paranoia is a staple to this game, I was hesitant and attempted to look for information on if this was dangerous move or not. About a minute later, the person left the chat channel in disgust at my lack of speed in responding.

My first thought would be this person could run into my mission, steal what was required, and I would fail the mission.

So any comments or thoughts; or was I being too paranoid here?

They can do that without sharing a fleet, and fleeting doesn't help you with faction standing anyway.

Faction standing is only rewarded to the owner of the mission, and the only way to get one of those is to have make your mission counter go up — sharing someone else's missions does not affect how many missions you are considered to have run. At most, it helps speeding up the process so you can bang the missions out faster and get a storyline mission sooner, but that's about it.

From another MMO I was used to just blindly accept invites; somebody might need help after all.

Well, I learned from that particular mistake and share your paranoia since this event.

Got warped off & killed. That was the end of the story of my first retriever. But, have to admit I made quite a number of noobish mistakes.

I was in Amamake.
And the inviter had a -10 sec standing:)

Those are standard corp missions, not storyline missions.

Corp missions give you corp standing, which is shared (along with agent rewards and bounties, if you're on-grid at the same time). Faction standing from storyline missions is not shared — you have to get your own from your own missions, which are only triggered by your own mission counter.

Awesome, now I understand. Thanks, Tippia!

Just because you are paranoid, dosen't mean someone isn't out to get you.

Once again, a Riot Girl post, in juxtaposition with her signature, becomes comedy gold.

Welcome to EVE an MMO where nobody likes each other.

You can choose to share mission rewards and that will include the rep bonus for the npc CORP that you are both running missions for. However every 16 missions you will get a FACTION mission that gives a gain to faction rep. i don't know if this rep is sharable. I assume this is because whilst people are happy to share the former they are less happy to share the latter and do it later whilst not in fleet.

On a related note attacking fleet members is still a concord offense (unlike attacking corp members) so unless you are in a hauler/mining ship/ something bling there is no especial reason to be paranoid. Whilst a lot of people in EvE are indeed out to get you it is also true that there are a lot of helpful friendly people in the game. Forming in-game friendships and playing with those people is kinda the point of the game.

People often say don't fly what you can't afford to lose and this is true.
You should not take this to mean don't fly anything.
Likewise to get anything out of the game you will need to trust some people. Put limits on that trust (this can vary over time) but to trust no one is a sad way to play. Sometimes people will betray that trust and you will lose some pixels. Smile, learn any lessons to be learned and move on. A GF in local wouldn't go amiss either.