EVE New Citizens Q&A

There is no low standing that restricts trade but a low standing will result in faction police and militia personnel firing at you in Jita which is a 1.0 system the standing is -2.0


Also don't do missions that kill Caldari and Amarr that will limit damage to faction standing.

Correction -5.0 is when standings effect whether factions can fire upon you.

train the skill diplomacy iirc to raise negative standings.

Yes most of this information I already knew what I was unclear on was Factional standing for getting in and out of Jita.
With that said I think Diplomacy might be my temporary answer, although to be fair I am farther away from -5.0 then I am -2.0

Long term though I fear I will not be able to have good standing with both Calrdari andGallente because many of the missions you have to blow up the others ships.

That's why most players work with several agents at a time, more or less.

When you decline an Anti-Empire encounter mission from your initial agent and he offers you another Anti-Empire encounter mission, just close the offer via the little 'X' at the top of the box and go work with another agent. That offer will still be listed in your journal with which you can check the cool down timer via mission details.

When the 4 hr cool down period is done, go back to the initial agent.


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Actually, you can fairly easily. If you're doing missions, simply decline the ones that want you to destroy ships from one of the four empires. Use the faction standings repair plan linked above to...repair your faction standings. I was once -9 to Amarr and it was very inconvenient for me as the wormhole I was in had an exit into Amarr space that would have been pretty handy for me except for the amarr navy messing with me. Using that faction standings repair plan and stopping with shooting anarr empire ships fixed that. Amarr love me now. I'd probably get an invitation to the Empress' spacegarden party. It's all good with both the Gallente and Caldari, too, now (and Minmatar). You should check out "the plan".

I had 0 on diplomacy and in the time of this forum string I got all my 'bads' to 'good' except for caldrai which is really close to 0 now diplomacy is now at 2 so this seems to be the solution.

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Since I'm well qualified to answer both questions (I have -9.89 security status and around -8 with the Amarr Empire)...

1a. You can never be denied docking by any NPC station in the game regardless of standing. The only exception to this is if you are in Faction Warfare and the faction hostile to you owns the FW low-sec system (all high-sec and non-contestable system stations can still be docked in though).

Player made and owned stations (in null-sec) are a different matter altogether. They can deny docking to anyone who is neutral, hostile, or all of the above.


2a. Having low security status and low faction standing have almost the same result; the Faction Police (not the Navy which is reserved specifically for hostile Faction Warfare people) will chase you... growing ever more responsive and powerful the higher the security rating of the system is.
-4.5 and lower cannot enter 0.5 space without a response.
-4.0 and lower cannot enter 0.6 space without a response.
-3.0 and lower cannot enter 0.7 space without a response.
-2.0 and lower cannot enter 0.8 space without a response.
-1.0 and lower cannot enter 0.9 space without a response.

Typically you can avoid the Faction Police by flying anything faster than a nimble cruiser. Industrials... forget it. Even a cloaking system will not work.
In terms of damage... you can somewhat tank Police in 0.5 systems in a battlecruiser (not recommended)... in 1.0 systems we're talking about thousands of damage per second with scrams, webs, and Ewar (see: just don't do it).

Now here is where it gets interesting. Faction Standing applies only towards a specific faction. Security Status is universal between all empires.
And beyond that... having -5.0 or lower security status make you an "outlaw"... meaning that you can be legally attacked by other players... anytime, anywhere. Even when in a pod. Low Faction Standings will not do this.

As for CONCORD... they do not care. They will only respond when you have a criminal timer (i.e. you have shot a ship with no aggression, suspect, or outlaw flags in high-sec).


3a. Finally... Corporation Standings are a bit separate from Faction Standings. You can have very high standings with a corporation whose faction is completely hostile to you. So yes, you can get really good refine rates even though the NPCs outside want to shoot you.
However I do suggest you read some DEV Blogs about the coming changes to industry.

Thank you, ShahFluffers and Akita T. That answered my question perfectly.

I believe that little "quirk" was patched out awhile ago. Ahhh... suiciding your own fleet of "outlaws" into CONCORD systems... good times...