Missions & Complexes

Your standings towards the corp have no effect on your rewards, those are dictated by the system's security rating.

Corp (or faction?) standing used to be used for anchoring POSes in highsec. Other than that so long as you meet the minimum requirements for missions, positive standings don't do much.

Yes, I do have a 3 jump circle with 5 agents I jump to in a leopard, so it's pretty fast, but still not fast enough , I skip most of the faction missions and chain missions and boy do those like to keep popping up for me. But if there is no other isk or LP bonus to your tribe, faction or agent standing then I might start burning them to a minimum.

Might try burners eventually but it seems like you really have to have some super fit for those, the right ship, the right gear and the right money for each type of mission. Sounds like a lot of work to set them up, unless people posting are doing overkill with their prep.

Yes and no. Personally I'd say my prep is primarily for speed rather than 'minimum required to run the mission'. But reducing the bling requires you up the skill points or make sacrifices elsewhere. You can do Team burners in a T2 fit garmur for example but you really do require some serious skill specialization. Heck some of the burners I currently do in T2 or cheap DEDspace fits. It'll require some digging as it's been discussed a dozen times in the main burner thread but a number of the burners can be done with enough skill points in T2 or cheap fits. One of the biggest expenditures for example is the warp speed implants and they don't eve do anything for making it easier to run burners. Replace those with tanking implants and you can reduce a lot of the bling at the cost of speed.

No, I'm not referring to Level 4 missions as the tougher more rewarding missions that are offered due to having high Agent standings.

Each Agent level has both easy and tough missions available. When first working with an Agent, they will offer easier less rewarding missions with longer travel time and as the Agent standing gets higher, the Agent starts offering tougher more rewarding missions with shorter travel time.


DMC

For mission cherrypicking, having 5.0+ faction standings means you you only need to keep corp and agent standings above -2.0 Effective. With diplomacy V, your base corp/agent standings can drop all the way down to -5.0 (which is -2.0 effective).

This is incredibly useful because you gain more standings and lose less standings as they get lower and lower with every % gain/loss.

So with 5.0+ Faction standings and Diplomacy V, you can mass-decline all the "Pirate Extravaganzas", "Worlds Collide", and "Intercept the Saboteurs" time-waster missions and selectively run the short-and-sweet "Dread Pirate Scarlet"s and Burner missions instead.

If you're content sitting through every agonizing mission, then I guess this isn't of much use to you, but this standings mechanic a god-send for any avid Mission Blitzer like myself.

You do lose some faction standings every time you decline a mission but that amount is always 0.0165% or something, regardless of mission value, which is a trivial amount that can be easily fixed with a single run of "Materials for War Preperation" every blue moon.

Sort of funny I got the damsel for the first time in months yesterday and thought that was a good break in the same ol. I do get a lot of burner missions though, it's tempting to start them but ship buying money is completely being siphoned elsewhere atm.

faction standings substitute agent standings in the agent conversation window so I'm assuming it just uses that. On one hand I kinda want to say I noticed it as my standings dropped, although that could easily be explained by a bad run of RNG as well, would need a very large sample size for any conclusive result.