EVE New Citizens Q&A

Patience.

Don't rush through things, enjoy the trip.

For lvl4 missions and the arcs you need a well-skilled Battleship or Strategic Cruiser. Google for Epic Arcs and get to know what starting corp you need standing with.

Exploration can be very profitable indeed, but only with the right setup/skills and in the right regions (Sansha space). It's worth training, because scanning is a must have skill in New Eden, and bombers (easy cross train from covops) are fun too.

Nope, I don’t want to reach high or excellent standings with all factions. When I wrote “good” I mean above 5 with 2 main factions of interest and above 0 with others. Ideally - +5 with all factions.

I need it because I’m doing exploration, PI colony business, some missions. I want to farm R&D and LP to buy a specific corporation blueprints by starting missions from level 3 or 4, without passing all corporation reputation from 0 every time for different corporations. I need the ability to dismantle all colonies from high tax space (over 15%) which usually happens near main trading hubs and deploy them to whatever system I need. I want to exit null-sec through WH in secure high-sec space (because Ammar has so many systems, there is a great chance that you’ll appear there (due to my experience I have a 60% chance to appear there) and I don’t want to fly with a 70mil ISK frigate’s hull around high-sec space through low-sec. I want to practice trading and contracting-delivery also.

Currently I don’t want to participate in warefare, for example, due to my business here, knowing that reparation will take min 1 year (a huge limitation to gameplay). To develop an ALT for warefare? … lol.

Talking about current faction standings criteria – they are outdated, old-style and partially broken. They not corresponding to other in-game mechanics and I don’t know why the community not point to this issue for so long time. To be short on words, we need something like a capsuleer constitution, considering we have the mechanics like: turret tracking, falloff range, signature radius, missile explosion signature and even missile explosion velocity.

It’s wrong to lose like -2.4% of opposite faction standings after killing an enemy ship, turret, drone in your own high-sec system doing level 1 missions. No matter they are Ammarian or Caldari origin – they are criminals, terrorists; they are offenders and you are defender. If you kill their ship in low-sec or warefare systems you should lose more points (you both have the same rights in the contested territory). If you fly to the Ammarian space and starting to destroy their ships you should lose like current -2.4%, because you are offender, you are an antagonist.

I think all NPC should catapult in capsules or spacesuits after you destroyed their ship. The points lost per destroyed ship and killed NPC avatar should be respectively different. The same for capsuleers.

It will be good to introduce something like police departments where you can pay the penalties for your low illegal actions to repair standing (150% of destroyed ship cost, for example), but for high crimes you should pass something like current path. Something like you pay penalties for high driving speed in real life.

Now what we have? You in a level 1 mission can lose more standings than fleet members which participated in the “burn Jita” genocide…

Do you mean the CONCORD security rules which after breaking turns into 100% self-destroy and the faction standing rules which gives you a chance to run away at -5 and moreover nope at -9?

How about the station docking below -5 FS?

I have not read all of the replies so forgive me if I am redundant.

Level 4 Epic arcs give large faction standing increase with no derived stand penalty.

Each faction has a pirate faction which you can gain good derived standings increases with very little negative derived standing penalties from opposing factions.

The way that standings work is that it is a percentage of the distance from "perfect" which is 10. So at 0 a 10% gain would be 1 point. However at 9 a 10% gain would be 0.1.

Use Servant Sisters of Eve faction for an example:

Go under the "show info" UI and click on the "Standings" tab. Look under "Standings With Other Empires". You will see that Caldari State has a -0.25 relation ship with SoE and Amarr has a -1.0 with them. On the other hand Gallente Federation has 8.0 and Minmatar has Republic has 2.5. A relation ship of 10 means that for every percent that you gain with one faction you gain a percent through derived standing with the other. Likewise a -10 means you you loose on a one for one basis.

So for every standing increase that you get with SoE your Gallente will go up 80% as much while your Caldari will only go down 2.5% as much and your Amarr only go down 10% as much.

So if you do a little homework and a bunch of grinding standings can always be gotten back to positive.

that first set of transactions follows the derived standings +100% min, +80% gal, -50% amarr, and -20% caldari. I'm not sure anything should modify the base transaction as the actual standing change will change based on your current standing. Also not sure why every transaction would be slightly smaller in absolute values.


you seem to want fast, using r&d agents it will take you 3 years to farm the data cores you will go through in 3 weeks inventing stuff. I'd suggest going to jita and buying those datacores instead, let someone else do the hard work farming them.

soe lp may not be the flashiest but it is the easiest to farm, you will make more lp/hr in lanngisi than any other highsec. I don't have hard numbers on what the difference is but I'd guess you have to break 2k isk/lp to come close running normal missions, and way more if you are doing burners.


uhh where the hell did you get that idea? I'd say it takes maybe a few days to fix standings, although it is grindy. Also it is super easy to keep standings above -5 with the empire factions, so it is something that honestly almost never needs doing.