EVE New Citizens Q&A

heyaa guys, kinda new here...nice to meet ya all

so i was planning to be a mission runner and there's some questions about it...

currently i rolled as gallente and naturally both caldari and ammar are my enemies which the standing was already given at -2 when i start the game

if somehow i want to grind sec mission, should i just ignore the missions against one of those 2 or should i preserve whatever left i have between the two factions??

i mean what are the actual impact for the longrun?

thanks guys

I agree with Tau Cabalander, you should have started out with neutral standings towards all Factions.

Are you sure you're looking at the correct standings? To view your Faction and Corporation standings open Character Sheet - select 'Standings' section - click 'Liked By' or 'Disliked By' tab. To view the details for those standings, right click on a specific Faction or Corporation and select 'Show Transactions'.

If after a few days you are indeed -2.00 Faction standing towards both Amarr and Caldari Factions, then you've probably been doing a lot of Anti-Empire encounter mission from Security Division agents.

Considering you're Gallente, that doesn't surprise me at all. From my years of experience I've noticed that the Gallente Federation offers a lot more Anti-Empire encounter missions when compared to all the other Empire Factions.

Usually the first thing said to players in your position is stop killing Empire Faction NPC's. Of course that also includes declining encounter missions offered against Empire Factions. The best course of action right now is to train up the Diplomacy skill to reduce your current negative Faction standings back to neutral. For more info about repairing and or boosting Faction standings, check out 'The Plan'.

Anyway, hope this helps. Good luck to you and welcome to Eve.


DMC

None at all.

Your bloodline only influences five things:

• Your looks
• The system you start in
• The skills you start with (but those can be trained in a few hours)
• The NPC corp you end up in when you leave your current corp
• Which free Rookie ship you get when you end up in a station without a ship

... unless you run into a couple of role players who pretend to hunt "traitors"

Me too started as Gallente in the past. These days the Hybrid weapons weren't as good as today.
So changed my paths to Minimatar and later on to Caldari weapons and ships.

The Drake got a little nerf, yes. But it's still a good ship. Works still good with a passive shield tank.
Meanwhile there exist a faction variant of the drake (Drake Navy Issue) which is a bit better.

Hahaha.

Even after the slight nerf, the Drake is still an extremely tough cookie. A Drake can tank lvl 4 missions with "only" a passive tank. Unless you completely ignore triggers, no lvl 3 mission should ever bring you below 50% shields. (Disclaimer: assuming a T2 tank and Caldari BC 5.) Also, I wouldn't think of it as "only passive tanking" - passive tanking doesn't mean that you use the ship as is, you fit rigs and modules to increase your passive recharge rate ~sevenfold - and then you add resist modules on top of that to double or tripple your effective recharge rate. In the end, a "passive" tank may be stronger than some active tanks.

Resists are the resistances in the 4 damage types.

This.

Missions usually deal specific types of damage, tanking just those damage types by increasing these resists are a lot more efficient then going for an Omnitank.

If you don't want to go the dark way (means to fly missions for the pirate factions or for Tukker, Syndicate) later,
its no Problem to run missions against these.
EoM and Mordu's is no problem at all.

And if you decide later for the dark side, then the Faction Standing Repair Plan includes information to increase the standings to the pirate factions at the end of the document.