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Standing gain comparison L1 solo vs L4 shared?
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Karla Rooks
Albidus Corvus
#1 - 2011-09-08 11:28:10 UTC
Hi there,

I was wondering whether there is any knowledge on my following conundrum:

I have two chars flying as damage and support. now the older (dmg) char has enough standing to access L4 security agents, while the younger pilot can talk to L1 only.

so the goal obviously would be to gather enough standing with my younger char to get L4 agents as well. Now my question would be: is it faster/better to do 2 or 3 L4 missions and share the reward/standing thus getting specfic agent-standing and to a lesser degree corp/faction standing as well - or let the young toon accept L1 mission of which I could probably do 6-7 in a row and reap the reward alone. the agent-specific standing would be ignorable in this case, but what about corp/faction increase to ascend to L2 or L3 agents of the same corp and eventually all over the faction?

reason for the thought is the the increased frequency of storylines I would get on the young char for completing more L1 missions in the same timeframe compared to L4 missions, thus making corp/faction-standing progression faster.

thoughts?
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#2 - 2011-09-08 11:52:25 UTC
Level 4 Blockade and Worlds Collide, split 3 ways, will give my alt 1.1% standings gain. L4 story lines are extremely variable - the one I can see in my alt's history gave her a 0.6% standings gain (again, split three ways).

A solo level 2 courier mission (I know, not really a fair comparison) gives my alt a 0.16% standings gain.

I don't have a L2 storyline mission to compare to.

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Firebolt145
The Hatchery
RAZOR Alliance
#3 - 2011-09-08 21:54:20 UTC
When I first got my mission alt in a ship to mission in, I shared standings from my main to get it agent standings so I could at least start making some money (lvl <4 missions aren't worth doing, period). Then I did lvl4 missions the slow way (doing them all efficiently) until I had enough faction standings.

Then I finally started making money.
Peregrine Shae
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2011-09-09 04:31:08 UTC
A corporation I got involved with had a couple of nights of running L4 missions to help boost up some of the new people. In sharing the rewards for those mission, I can already access L3 missions for that corporation without any Social skills.

I do not remember exactly how many missions it was, but I do know that my standing with that corporation is significantly higher on that character than it is on a new character I have on another account who ran multiple sessions of L1 and L2 missions.

Personally, I would split the rewards for a while (and maybe train some levels in Connections). Your new character will gain access at least to that agent's L4 missions at a decent pace.
Karla Rooks
Albidus Corvus
#5 - 2011-09-09 06:48:40 UTC
ok ty :)

I did a small trial yesterday, can't remember the exact numbers, but indeed to shared gain of the L4 missions was big enough to screw L1s. My main concern where the storylines to boost faction standing alongside, but I guess this can wait until I got the specifi agent standing high enough. and as this was tremendous, compared to corp-standing gain (i.e. +0.28 standing with the agent but +0.14 with the corp) without any social skills, I will keep sharing until the gent standing is at 5.0X.

anyhow, thanks for helping with the decision!
Potato IQ
Doomheim
#6 - 2011-09-09 07:24:25 UTC
I’ve been through this requirement a few times for different pilot/corp requirements

Share standing from lvl 4’s until lvl 3’s are made available, then run lvl 3’s with the pilot your working on. This is the quickest method I found, especially if you get a storyline with the same corp. Pure blitz on the 3’s offers a gain of at least 1 to your standing running the 16 missions for storyline requirement in around 2 hours, based on what you are offered, 3 hours at the very most