EVE New Citizens Q&A

Yes.

Look up the faction standing repair plan. I would link it for you but my phone is pants.

Is there no other way to do this? I dont wanna lose and turn negative on other faction while trying to get my gallente faction to positive.

Can you post your faction to player standings with all four empires, we can then offer better advice.

Post them not including the effects of the Diplomacy or COnnections skills.

heres my current standings.

Caldari 8.85 ( 8.63 )
Amar 5.79 ( 4.99)
Minmatar -3.28 ( -5.81 )
Gallante -6.67 ( -9.10 )

I like the idea of running SoE missions to raise gallante and minmatar standings. Will this be viable? not sure if this is actually a good way to fix my standings considering I have such a terrible standing on gallante and minmatar. I just want enough standings to be able to fly in gallante and minmatar airspace without getting blown up by their navy. I also wonder how long it would take?

My social skills.

Connections 4
Criminal connections 3
Diplomacy 4
Distribution connections 2
Fast talk 3
Mining Connections 2
Negotiation 3
Security connection 3
Social 5

I forgot how much standing is needed to avoid agression from the faction navy, is it -4? I wont get blown up below -3.99?

Ah thanks, I have diplo 4 and still have my Gallante standings at -6.67. Any idea how long it would take to get that below -5 running SoE missions?

That 8.63 Caldari faction standing is a significant asset. Think carefully before you sacrifice it. (Not saying do not, just be aware you are losing something of value).

Order of checks:
1. Faction to NPC Corp.
2. Personal to NPC Corp.
So once you have 5.0 faction, you can run level 4 missions for any corp in that faction.

Only personal standing is checked for jumpclones and reprocessing.

I typically aim for 8.0 corp standing, and ignore faction standing unless it falls below -2.

They have removed most of the benefit of having a high faction standing. SoE barely touches Caldari. He won't barely even notice the difference.

He'll still have access to JCs as I am sure with a faction standing that high he has multiple corps above that and he will still have access to all locator agents unless he goes down below I think something like 6. He can run SoE for a good long while without having to worry.

So that the OP knows standing increases are expressed in a percentage and that is a percentage of the difference from where you are to perfect so the lower you are the more that it is. Example if you are 0 with a faction and you do a storyline that gives you a 10% increase that is 10% of the difference between 0 and 10 which is to say 1. Now if you are 5 with a faction and get a 10% increase from a storyline then the difference from 5 to 10 is 5 and 10% of that is 0.5.

It's for market broker fees primarily.

Faction to player standing makes up 70% of the broker fee factor, corp to player makes up 30%. I have a good Gallente standing and an outstanding Federation Navy standing (7.5 and 9.99 respectively IIRC) which gives me a considerable advantage when trading in Dodixie 9-20 over my trade rivals there. It's like having the benefit of trading the Broker Relations skill to 8 (I have it trained to 5). On the flip side, if I trade at Jita, I have to put up with broker fees that are more in line with what a person with Broker Relations 2 would get, and that was *expensive* for me putting up a few multi-billion ISK sell orders lately.

Not saying you shouldn't sacrifice some of that Caldari standing to push up Gallente a bit, just be aware that the price for doing so is non-zero. The decision is yours. I would pay a billion ISK to improve my Gallente standings from 7.5 to 9.0 if the option existed.

SoE missions will not cripple your Caldari standings but will knock them down a little. Again, it's your call. Try one of them, see how much it messes with you.