EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi. I'm new to EVE, but have read and followed along some of the metagaming for a couple of years. What interested me more than anything was the market system. So I installed the game this weekend, pitted around with the new player missions, and got a feel for the UI. Anyhow, to leave out most of my gushing remarks about how beutiful the sandbox is to a newbie, I found out that the optimal setup for trading in the major stations is to have perfect (10?) standing with the owner's faction and corporation along with the accounting and broker relations skills I have already begun to train up. If the 2011 guide I read is still accurate, that means I am seeking said standing with the Caldari and their navy agents.

So while I wait for the latter skills to complete, i'm looking for any kind of efficient means of getting those standings. Bear in mind that I'm only capable of flying a basic frigate ship and don't have much in the way of mechanical or engineering skills and the like since I am focused on getting those important trade skills trained. Ultimately I'd like to spend all day in a station or two playing on the market so to the extent that it is possible I would like to avoid training other skills for now.

Thus far my googling has not turned up much that I can readily access except for level 1 missions which aren't moving the standing number up much at all. Another forum post I found here indicated that factional warfare also raises standings, but I don't know how that mechanic works. I found an excellent post called the "faction repair plan," or something which was very helpful but seemed to indicate doing missions that were well beyond my capabilities.

At this point I am a bit miffed, though I understand that all gaming has an element of grinding to it. By my estimation there would appear to be several thousand missions in my future if I want to attain the standings I seek with the skill set I will have in under a month's training time. So without undue solipsism, I have to ask you veterans: is there a better way to build this mouse-trap or have a set an unrealistic goal for myself? I've seen some characters previously advertised on the bazaar subforum that have low skillpoints and very high standings. I don't know how this is done, but I would like to think it indicates some hope for me yet.

Sorry to be so long winded! Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

The fastest way is probably faction warfare. If you can blitz level 4 FW missions, you get promotions very quickly, which provide a pretty big faction boost. It will trash your standings with the opposing factions, however.

Faction warefare will make half of the Eve your enemy. Who can shot you even in high sec without CONCORD interferience. Which means serious problem with logistic. So ono your place I would forget about FW and go do tutorial missions for each 12 sets of agents in Eve.

Do not forget, that you will always lose some minor standing against gallente and minmatar when you gain some standings for caldary and amarr. But you will lose much more standings if you will do security missions against other faction (like killing amarr ships for minmatar missions). Yet security missions is the best way to grind standings after you finish tutorial grind. Each 10 missions in tutorial gives you standing and each 16 missions of other kind will also give you standing. Security misssions gives the most. Then mining missions, distribution missions give you least standing, but it is faster to finish 16 distribution missions, then 16 security missions.

My suggestions:
1. go to following systems and do all tutorial there:
Amarr
Deepari
Pasha
Conoban

Caldari
Uitra
Jouvulen
Akiainavas

Gallente
Couster
Clellinon
Trossere

Minmatar
Hadaugago
Malukker
Embod

dotlan map is your friend here

2. go to Simela and start doing Sisters of Eve security missions in there. Most profit via SoE loyalty points and each 16 missions you will get standings for your faction. Ignore any mission, that will require to kill faction NPC

eve survival is you friend here

3. after you home standings will get high enough do COSMOS missions to get standings for the other factions. You should be able to do so, sinse security missions for SoE will give you enough PVE combat experience.

wait -- don't (market) taxes work the same way as most of the others --> 6.67 and you're at zero (for that half, still need accounting/broker relations/etc)?

No.

IIRC, adding 14 points of corp standing halves your broker fees without limit, and adding 6 points of faction standing does the same. (Logarithmic scale).

no

BrokerFee % = (1.000 % – 0.050 % × BrokerRelationsSkillLevel) / 2 ^ (0.1400 × FactionStanding + 0.06000 × CorporationStanding)

You need both faction and corp standing at 10 to have 0 broker fee.

really ?

lol, I thought it was on a 6 month cycle

makes the process slightly faster then

This

(I cannot believe no one linked the faction standing repair plan. )

OP's subject: What is the fastest possible way to get high standings with a faction?

If you just want the standings, you join that faction, run a few missions, and then leave FW. Then, you join the allied faction, and do the same. The rate at which you can run FW missions, and the size of the boosts you get from promotions, makes it really quite without equal for quickly raising standings.

http://imgur.com/Q3fer2U

(I was already at rank 3, so the first/smallest adjustment is 3->4 and the largest was 8-9).

All told, those took about 3 or 4 hours of work, and the adjustments are basically enormous compared to pretty much anything except an epic arc.

The only real hitch is that you need, or at least really, really want, a stealth bomber, but if you can fulfill that criteria, FW promotions will absolutely crush any other means of raising standing that I'm aware of, in terms of adjustment-for-time-invested.

Yeah. Actually running FW missions are much faster than the epic arc, even. If cash is no object and you don't care about the opposing or pirate factions, buying FW standing turnins is the fastest way to go by a long shot.