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Which faction/corp standings are most/least important
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Lame Cobb
Caldari Montan AG
#1 - 2014-03-09 18:25:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Lame Cobb
I understand this can be fairly subjective. As Caldari I see Blood Raiders and Gallente standings dropping fairly quickly for obvious reasons. I figure I should raise Caldari Navy for better usage of Jita, and a few other corps in the area if that's where I'll be unloading goods for now. But as far as particular LP rewards or standings based benefits, is there any stand out things I should know?

I'm still not sure what this characters role will be exactly, so I'm just looking for broad information. I don't want to find myself doing 1000 Level 1 missions later on to fix a bad choice I made now.

Thanks for any help you can give!

Note: Not asking HOW to get the standings up, there is plenty of information on that.
Lord Battlestar
CALIMA COLLABORATIVE
Atrox Urbanis Respublique Abundatia
#2 - 2014-03-09 19:07:50 UTC
I have heard interbus standings are pretty useless, other than that it just depends on the market.

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#3 - 2014-03-09 21:31:12 UTC
It is more of a question, what are you doing and where are you doing that.


A miner wants good standings with the corporation that owns the station where he refines his ores.
A trader wants good standings with the corporation that owns the station(s) where he conducts trade.
A mission runner want good standings with the corporation that has a good number of high level agents where he lives.

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Lame Cobb
Caldari Montan AG
#4 - 2014-03-09 23:06:30 UTC
That's more or less what I figured. Just seeing if there were any that had any particular benefits beyond access to asteroids or markets. Those I'll find through experience. Thanks guys!
MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#5 - 2014-03-09 23:11:07 UTC
An industrialist/researcher in high-sec will want to have high faction standings in the faction space he wants to stand up a POS.

My personal opinion is that if you are going to grind a couple factions up and let the other two slide, go with Amarr/Caldari because it will allow you access to about 65%+ of high-sec no matter how much you anger the Galente/Minmatar.

One thing I would warn against. Don't just grab random missions from random NPC corps. Pick a couple and work with them. I made the mistake of 'mission roaming' where I was doing distribution missions to a station, then just grabbing the next closest distribution agent (regardless of who it was) and running with it. Now I have a lot of very low standings with lots of NPC corps that can have a negative effect on standings if I join a corp.

If you have no standing at all with a corp you are not averaged in to the calculation. This can be very important for some corps. In one group I was with they had 8.0+ standings with a small NPC corp that let members get jump clones very quickly. If you had a low standing with that corp you were required to get it higher if you wanted to join.

When in doubt, find a large NPC corp to work for to start. Some corps like Quafe (Galente) or Kaalakiota (Caldari) are actually all over the eve space while others like HZO Refinery are just in a small pocket of space.

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Thomas Builder
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2014-03-09 23:18:47 UTC
Standings with high-sec factions that own star systems (Caldari, Gallente, Amarr, Minmatar, Ammatar, CONCORD, The InterBus) are more important because if they get below -5, you will get hunted by the faction police. And of those, the four major empires are much bigger than the other three. (AFAIK The InterBus owns a single system.) And criminal factions are even less important, as they don't have a police and their NPCs will shoot you anyway, even if you have +10 with them.

Also, if faction standing drops below -2, you can only do lvl 1 missions for corps of that faction, even if you have +10 with the corp. It's thus generally a good idea to stay above -2 with the four major empires, if you like to keep your options open.

If you avoid combat missions against Gallente, your Gallente standings should drop much more slowly even if you work for the Caldari. Add a bit of diplomacy and run the SoE arc to repair the standings every 3 months and you should never drop below -2.
Qalix
Long Jump.
#7 - 2014-03-10 00:42:23 UTC
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Faction_Standings

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Missions

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Faction_Standing_Repair_Plan (is also good for standings in general)

What standings effect are included in the links. Basically, trading, mission agents, POS anchoring, jump clones, refining, and a couple of odds and ends like special BPCs for getting to 9.9 with a faction.
Lame Cobb
Caldari Montan AG
#8 - 2014-03-10 02:41:27 UTC
MadMuppet wrote:


One thing I would warn against. Don't just grab random missions from random NPC corps. Pick a couple and work with them. I made the mistake of 'mission roaming' where I was doing distribution missions to a station, then just grabbing the next closest distribution agent (regardless of who it was) and running with it. Now I have a lot of very low standings with lots of NPC corps that can have a negative effect on standings if I join a corp.

If you have no standing at all with a corp you are not averaged in to the calculation. This can be very important for some corps. In one group I was with they had 8.0+ standings with a small NPC corp that let members get jump clones very quickly. If you had a low standing with that corp you were required to get it higher if you wanted to join.


Oh man that's gonna be rough... I should have posted this on day one. My genius idea for LP gain efficiency in my first 2 weeks are gonna make that hard. I have standings with 45 different corps right now. Well this'll be fun!
Lame Cobb
Caldari Montan AG
#9 - 2014-03-10 02:42:37 UTC
Thomas Builder wrote:
Standings with high-sec factions that own star systems (Caldari, Gallente, Amarr, Minmatar, Ammatar, CONCORD, The InterBus) are more important because if they get below -5, you will get hunted by the faction police. And of those, the four major empires are much bigger than the other three. (AFAIK The InterBus owns a single system.) And criminal factions are even less important, as they don't have a police and their NPCs will shoot you anyway, even if you have +10 with them.

Also, if faction standing drops below -2, you can only do lvl 1 missions for corps of that faction, even if you have +10 with the corp. It's thus generally a good idea to stay above -2 with the four major empires, if you like to keep your options open.

If you avoid combat missions against Gallente, your Gallente standings should drop much more slowly even if you work for the Caldari. Add a bit of diplomacy and run the SoE arc to repair the standings every 3 months and you should never drop below -2.


Thank you. Those are things I need to keep in mind long term. Already did the SoE run for Gallente once so I'll just keep doing that as it becomes available.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#10 - 2014-03-10 04:06:56 UTC
J'Poll wrote:
A trader wants good standings with the corporation that owns the station(s) where he conducts trade.


Just remember that faction standings have double the impact on broker fees of NPC corp standings. Or so I'm told.

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