Missions & Complexes

Sorry but I did not find this on the web on my first search.

For purposes of this brief discussion, let's pretend the only factions that exist in game are Caldari, Amarr, Mimatar (sic?), Gallente.

Is it possible to maintain high faction standings with the 4 empire factions by simply rotating every couple of months and running level 4s for a new faction? Or, is a storyline standing gain completely offset by an equivalent standings loss with the corresponding enemy faction(s)?

And definitely take advantage of it while you can (I think there are plans to make having excellent standings with all Empires next-to-impossible in the future).

It is far simpler. The current plan is you will start with neutral standing with the empire and friendly empires of your chosen race and -10 with the opposing empires. Additionally gaining standing with an empire opposed to your racial empire will require far more effort. A 75% reduction in standing gain is applied after all skills are taken into account when running for an opposing empire.

This will help balance the Empires and provide a more valuable environment for the racial empires and characters.

For now it is very much possible

As for the future: I'll believe it when I see a source, and round table doesn't really count, they just throw stuff out to see what sticks. I'd wait for a Dev blog or patch notes. Although at that point it is usually too late.

I did this some time back and can confirm over time you will get to + 5 with all factions. However, just after that the reduced positive increase you get balances out with the increased negative decreases (relative) so you kind of plateau and the only way to then increase all would be to steer clear of any negative derived faction standing actions and stick to Epic Arcs only (these don't have negative derived standings) and even in those you will need someone else (ie and alt) to kill a few ships in some missions to remove the associated negative hits from them.

I am very new to The Plan, but I do remember this being one of the small points of confusion in the (excellent) doc you wrote.

What is an Event Agent? You mention it in the paragraph above, but it doesn't appear anywhere in the listing you showed of what you've run. I'm pretty sure it's synonymous with one of the entries, but not sure which one.

Sorry - not trying to criticize, just a little confused.

Epic Arcs.

I used to run Minmatar every time it came up again till they broke it.

Also here, skipping storylines and against HS factions doesn't affect my standings at all, I can run missions where ever (however don't think I done more then 20 regular missions this year in total).

Standings increase come from epic arcs, started about 3 years ago with amarr and caldari at 4, gallente and mattar at -4ish


Amarr Empire 8.25
Minmatar Republic 7.40
Caldari State 7.38
Gallente Federation 7.31
Servant Sisters of EVE 4.99
Khanid Kingdom 3.78
Mordu's Legion Command 3.17
The InterBus 3.09
The Society of Conscious Thought 1.98
ORE 1.33
Jove Empire 0.92
Ammatar Mandate 0.53

All together, I've done each epic arc about 12 times so far. (Some timers I skipped because I was lazy and then I used SoE to boost lowest faction, usually the one I skipped)

Also, my two other toons have pretty much similar or better standings, one of them didn't take any hits on ammatar so its at 5.0 with them (this toon usually takes standings hits from Epic Arc targets, but lately I just tank them and don't shoot them at all.)