EVE General Discussion

on most missions there will be an icon in the description identifying what faction you will be primarily fighting against. only select missions that have you flying against pirate factions if you want to keep your empire standing high.

other ways to keep your standings up is to run the SOE arc which gives you a decent boost to faction standing without any associated negatives. you can also run the various empires epic arcs, which will boost your standing to them with minimal drop to the others.

http://eve-survival.org/ gives detailed mission info including what faction standings (if any) will be affected.

Read the description of the mission when it's given to you. You'll learn where in there it tells you who you're going up against. If you're going against one of the four empires, skip that mission if you don't want to lose standings.

Standings are useless unless you're wanting to run Cosmos missions for storyline modules and blueprint copies.

Let Bob sort them out?

So, I am trying to get back the standing I lost before I knew how to decline missions that involved killing faction ships.
After grinding 16 missions, I got a storyline mission from the Minmatar Republic:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=822839542

It sure looks to me like it will cause me to lose standing with Amarr, completely defeating the purpose.
Do I decline this and do I have to do yet another 16 level 1 missions to get another?

Edit:
Err, maybe this isn't a storyline mission. The storyline ones end up in your email right? I think this is a plain mission offered from a storyline agent.

I don't know from the top of my head which missions are storylines, however, if you didn't get an eve mail from an agent that is clearly labeled as storyline agent, then it's just a regular mission. And by the looks of things you would be shooting Amarr, so yes - if you don't want to lose Amarr faction standing, then you may want to decline this one. I would however recommend to read up about the mission on eve-survival.org. There are some missions where you can get away without actually killing any faction NPCs and still finish the mission.

But, you're in wrong space or atleast using the wrong corp and agents if you're trying to mend your Amarr standings.
You need to be doing missions for Amarr or their allied faction Caldari, but focus on doing missions for an Amarr related
corp for now.

Check Eve-agents here: http://eve-agents.com/index.dxd?AgentName=&System=&Region=10000042&Corporation=-&Faction=500003&Division=22&Level=1&Skill=-&Locator=-&Storyline=-&FWAgent=-&Sort=7&Direction=0

Edit: Copy didn't use my selections for Distribution.

Well the bolded bit got me in the wrong direction then, my bad:

"Fleshbits L'Splatter wrote:
So, I am trying to get back the standing I lost before I knew how to decline missions that involved killing faction ships.
After grinding 16 missions, I got a storyline mission from the Minmatar Republic:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=822839542

It sure looks to me like it will cause me to lose standing with Amarr, completely defeating the purpose.
Do I decline this and do I have to do yet another 16 level 1 missions to get another?

Edit:
Err, maybe this isn't a storyline mission. The storyline ones end up in your email right? I think this is a plain mission offered from a storyline agent."

I don't believe the faction standing boost reward from the SOE Epic Arc can be shared with other characters via fleeting up. Only corp standing gains during normal missions. Because storyline faction standing gains/losses are always incurred by the person accepting the mission, not anyone else in fleet.



Tried to reply to this already but it appears the forums ate my reply. ;_;

In short, the only ways to avoid damaging your standings are:

A) to not run storyline missions... just keep running regular missions (that don't target other empires) and decline ALL storylines.

B) if you want to run storyline missions but you want to keep your standings as even/positive overall as possible with all 4 of the main empires, you'll want to switch between running missions for Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, and Minmatar agents.

This is the path I chose, I periodically run some missions for Cal Navy, then Fed Navy... for Amarr Navy, then Republic Security Services. etc. Because every storyline mission completed = that faction standing rises, the ally faction rises a bit, the opposing factions both drop (the main "enemy" of your mission agent's faction drops more). Now, the gains should be higher than the losses, which is why circulating between all 4 empires = overall raising your standings with all 4 of them over time.

C) SOE Epic Arc will raise your standings with just 1 of the factions at a time (it doesn't boost the other ally faction but it doesn't drain the two opposing factions, either). But as others have said, there's a 90 day timer on it. I tend to try and run it 2-3 times a year at least... running it 4 times a year (the max) is hard to time correctly/remember to do, in my experience.