EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi all

I've started grinding standings for a new corp that has multiple agents in the same station. My question is: Is it worth grabbing multiple missions to do at the same time ("safety" aside), or should I dedicate to a single agent at a time? In my case, there is one lvl II agent and three others that are lvl I. What is the standing with a single agent for? Storyline missions?

Except that I already train the skill to increase it, you can see I don't know much about the standing mechanics...

Adding to what was already said, Faction standing over-rides Corporation standing which over-rides Agent standing for access.

Basically that means :
With high Faction standing, all regular Agents in all Corporations within that Faction will be available for access.
With high Corporation standing, all regular Agents within that Corporation will be available for access.
With high Agent standing, only that Agent will be available for access.

All regular Agents will accept either Faction or Corporation standing for access. All Agents look at and accept standings modified by Social skills. Each regular mission completed will give both Agent and Corporation standing increase.

If using Corporation standing to access Agents above level 1, the Faction must also be above -2.00 standing.
If the Faction or Corporation standing drops to -2.00 or lower, only Level 1 Agents will be available.
If the Agent standing drops to -2.00 or lower, then no more access to that agent even if it's level 1.

Required standing per Agent level :
Level 1 = N/A
Level 2 = +1.00
Level 3 = +3.00
Level 4 = +5.00
Level 5 = +7.00

Storyline Missions :
Completing 16 regular missions of the same level for the same Faction will result in a Storyline mission being offered. Those 16 missions don't have to be with the same Agent or with the same Division. Completing a Storyline mission will give Faction, Corporation and Agent standing increase.

There's a couple of exceptions to what I posted above, ie, Cosmos Agents and Research Agents.

Cosmos Agents :
These Agents require higher standing for access compared to regular Agents and will only accept Faction standing for access. Most of their missions can only be completed once in the life of the character. Their missions are tougher than regular missions, ie, a level 1 Cosmos mission is like a regular level 2 mission, etc. Completing these missions will give a large Faction standing increase with a little Corporation and Agent standing increase.

Research Agents :
These Agents require both Faction and Corporation standing for access. Their missions are offered once every 24 hours and are mainly Courier or Trade, ie, deliver or pick up a specific item. Reward for these missions are double Research Points which can be redeemed for Data Cores which are used for Manufacturing / Invention. Completing these missions will gain both Corporation and Agent standing increase.

All completed missions add to the count for Storyline mission offer.

Agent and Corporation standing is usually easier to gain than Faction standing. Event Agent missions will quickly increase Faction standing. Remember, gaining positive Faction standing with a group of allied Factions will also incur negative Faction standing hits with their enemy Factions. The amount of negative standing incurred is about half of the positive standing gained. Basically it's 1 step forward, 1/2 step back.

Check out 'The Plan' for information on repairing negative Faction standings.

You only need +5.00 or higher standing to access level 4 agents. Nobody can state the specific amount of missions needed to complete or the amount of standing gained per mission due to various factors involved. Those factors include:

Agent location = A difference of 0.1 in system security level from 1.0 down to 0.0 translates into a 10% increase in rewards.
Agent division = Security, Mining, Distribution, R&D (Security division gives the most standing increase)
Agent type = Basic, Factional Warfare, Storyline, Event (Storyline and Event Agents give Agent, Corporation and Faction standing increase)
Mission type = Encounter, Mining, Courier (Encounter missions give the most standing)
Standings = Higher agent standing gives increased rewards per mission
Social skills = Higher level trained reduces the time spent to gain standings

These various Social skills will modify your Agent, Corporation and Faction standings.
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Item_Database:Skills:Social

Connections skill will raise your current positive standings with Empire. (4% per level)
Criminal Connections skill will raise your current positive standings with Pirate. (4% per level)
Diplomacy skill will raise your current negative standings with all. (4% per level)
Social skill will increase the amount of standings gained for completing missions. (5% per level)
Negotiation skill will increase mission reward and agent effective standing. (5% per level)
Fast Talk skill increases amount of Security Status gained for killing single most highest bounty Pirate NPC every 5 minutes. (5% per level)

Three different skills increase amount of Loyalty Points gained for completing missions per specific Agent Division. (5% per level)
http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=909

Security Connections
Distribution Connections
Mining Connections

Basically you can easily and quickly access high level agents. How fast depends on the amount of time invested and the factors listed above.

Sorry for the information overload, good luck to you.


DMC

1. agree with Xerc ... you are an overachiever DMC.

2. Have they changed the storyline mechanic now? I was always under the impression it was 16 misions of the same level with the same agent type - so a L2 distribution and L1 security would be different "storyline pools" (though 2 L2 security would fill the same "pool")

I don't think this was covered: you only ever need to run one level 1 mission to gain access to level 2 missions IF you train Connections 3.

Example: 0.0001 standing

Connections Level 0: 0.0001
Connections Level 1: 0.400096
Connections Level 2: 0.800092
Connections Level 3: 1.200088

question, is the level of the storyline mission determined by all of the 16 missions you done or is it dependent on the last mission you did?

thanks

I'd expected it to be this anyway.

I read it all and it helped me. This is a newbee section. It is hard to overload us with USEFULL information. ;)

Being a new player here, should I train up connections skill first? then seek out my agents to run missions for?

i have -5 standing with Gallante so everytime i try SOE missions i got blow up by Fed Navy if a mission in Gallante space, is there some way i can do to fix the standing ? ( was trying to do epic arc to fix the standing but navy keep blow me up )

In addition to the above, I will point out that someone aiming for faction standings is better off grinding L3 agents since those missions are over faster, so you get to the story lines sooner, and the story lines aren't blitzed by every capsuleer and their drone so the rewards are still quite high.

Also should you choose to idle away on courier missions, you will need 4200m3 for the largest of L3 courier missions, 1000m3 for the smallest (ie: blockade runner with rigs or expanded cargo hold). L4 courier missions require over 6000m3, I haven't run them for a long time because the ships required are so doggone slow. In Rubicon this gets worse since blockade runners will be so fast!