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New Trader, standings questions
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Chung Ju-yung
Doomheim
#1 - 2011-12-15 05:58:48 UTC
Hello folks. I have decided to start my career in EVE as a trader because the eve market seems to be much more rich than any other mmo I have experienced. I played EVE previously for a few months, mostly running missions and shooting other players, but this time around I want to get into the economic side of gameplay to see how I like it. After reading the evewiki faq and visiting the eve university webside, I have a few extra questions to pose regarding standings that effect my tax rate.


  1. Is it advisable to maintain newbie faction neutrality for any amount of time?

  2. Are there any guides to building balanced corporate and faction standings without a heavy investment in combat skills?

  3. Would I be able to find assistance in standings from a corporation?

  4. Are there any new trader channels or guides that I should be aware of, other than the eve wiki faq (which I have read)?


I do have a few isk left over from my previous character so if anyone is especially helpful I will be glad to toss a few thousand isk your way as a reward. =)
EmmaFromMarketing
Prospect Theory
#2 - 2011-12-15 09:03:33 UTC
1. Is it advisable to maintain newbie faction neutrality for any amount of time?

IMO it is a good idea to keep all the factions neutral or positive - simply so that you can move around in all faction space if required. You can get high NPC corporation standings without negatively affecting your standing to the opposing factions if you don't do many storyline missions and skip faction missions.

2. Are there any guides to building balanced corporate and faction standings without a heavy investment in combat skills?

Not that I have seen - the best guide to standings that is on the forum is the Faction Standing Repair Plan, you can find this in the first page or two in the missions and complexes subforum. There is a lot you can do with low combat skills but combat missions do give faster standing increases.

3. Would I be able to find assistance in standings from a corporation?

While I can't really see a reason why a player corp would stop what they are doing and sacrifice their own time to boost your standings (this is a rather blunt way of putting it, but you get the idea) there are player corps that run missions, etc for standings/isk

4. Are there any new trader channels or guides that I should be aware of, other than the eve wiki faq (which I have read)?

I would recommend Isktheguide 2.0, free 400 page PDF, check on google. The section on trading is basic but explains all the market skills and very basic knowledge.

Other than that have a look in channels ingame for several channels which are mostly people putting up contracts, join scc-lounge channel, subscribe to the Bulk Trade mailing list, Traders Academy corp have a friendly public chat, spend some time reading the Market Discussion subforum for more info on the above.
Toshiro GreyHawk
#3 - 2011-12-15 09:19:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Toshiro GreyHawk
As to lack of combat skills - you can just keep doing Level I missions and raise your standings that way - you just won't get paid much for them. As you get your standings up you can accept Mining and Distribution missions that are higher without a lot of skill involved.

Courier missions - which the distribution agents give out now - require only a modest amount of cargo space you could get with even a basic industrial.

I've not run Level IV Mining Missions but I have run Level III Mining Missions in a .9 system and easily handled the rats with a destroyer or the drones on my miner and the amount of ore you are required to mine is trivial.



So - if you're just running them for standings - rather than as a source of income - it's not a problem. If you want to run Level IV Combat Mission's for income - then you're going to need more skills.

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Chung Ju-yung
Doomheim
#4 - 2011-12-15 19:34:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Chung Ju-yung
Thank you for the input thus far.

I do realize it is in my best interest, as a flexible trader, to keep my faction standings on the up and up. My goal is to have a jump clone in each major hub region eventually and sort of rotate as opportunities arise. I am not keen on using missions as an income source, but as I understood it, there were very few other methods available to increase standings (although having read the faction repair plan, I see there are a few other options). I will likely use L1 distribution missions to get a feel for the pace of standing gains and see if a substantial investment into industrial ship skills is worth the time short-term. My current skill plan calls for front-loading trade skills and picking up the ship skills much later (as I hope to do most of my trading remotely and via contract).

It's all on paper at this point since I am still working on career agent mission.Oops