EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello,

Someone suggested to me that I should keep my character's standing in mind when dealing with trade hubs. I'd like to make sure I understand the implications of what I'm doing as a new player so I don't make mistakes that will be hard to undo. Specifically, I'm noticing that my standing with the Amarr and Caldari is going down as I play through missions (I'm playing as a Minmatar character and am doing missions for the Minmatar and Gallente). I'm concerned that this might be a problem when I eventually head over to Jita.

I gather the actual worries are

• Being attacked by NPCs in areas I'm disliked if my standing goes below a threshold.
• Higher costs when using particular trade hubs.

Are these valid concerns? Are there others?

Is there anything I should be doing to minimize these problems? I've heard that I should pick up the Diplomacy skill and think about doing missions for all four factions.

Thanks!

Yes, those are valid concerns.

What you can do to mitigate:

- use trade alts to shop and private contracts to move the goods to an accessible area
- use the other trade hubs
- train the Diplomacy skill to gain a standings modifier and delay how many missions until the attacks happen (-2.0 standings).
- preserve your empire standings and only do missions for NPC corp standings.

You progress to higher level agents within a corp by building standings with that corp. Every 16 missions you also get offered an "important" mission that will affect your standings with all empires (because they hate/love each other). Corps don't hate each other; so basically you can do regular missions and decline the "important" missions. Also, decline missions that send you against the Navy elements of another empire; only accept missions that send you against mercenaries, pirates, drones, etc. You can see all this info in the mission window, and you can decline 1 mission every 4 hours from each agent, with no penalties.

Yep, those are the valid concerns,
once you -4 (?) with a faction their navy will spawn next to you should you be still for something like 15 + seconds in thier space.
Its fine if you just want to pass through and use the hubs but for any pve or pvp this could be either an massibe inconveniance and/or a death sentance.

My chosen profession (mercenary) requires that i be able to operate in all regions and i had my gallente and minie standings tanked to hell and back when i started, took me a couple of weeks solid to get to the point i was no longer kill on sight in their space.

Its a serious pain in the arse to get faction standing in the first place, its considerably worse when digging yourself out of the hole.
Its damn near impossible to get all 4 in high standinding but its reasoonable easy to keep them balanced.

The way to avoid taking a standing hit is to turn down any and all "faction kill" missions, these are the ones whereby you are required to kill amarr navy ships for example.

For your consideration ...

Caldari Navy: 9.54 before skill bonuses are applied
Faction Standing: No standing with any player faction.

How: Decline all player faction missions (see mission briefing icon) and all storyline missions.

Note that you can only decline one mission every 4 hours with an agent. You can use another agent while you wait. If the mission briefing states "every 4 hours" then it is safe to decline, but if it states "within the next 4 hours" it means a timer is already running and you have to wait.

Knew you'd stumble in. Tag.

About as reliable as Chribba

Lots of standing will make your leg tired. However if you sit every once in a while this effect can be reduced.