EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I know Faction standings can override NPC Corp standings for missions etc. Do they prevent sentries from firing on you in highsec? Example, I get to -6.0 with Wiyrdomi Corporation, this means that Wiyrdomi station's sentry guns will shoot at me as soon as they see me. If I have 0 or positive standing with the Caldari State, will this override my negative standings with Wiyrdomi?

Furthermore, can someone confirm that I will not be locked out of hostile stations?

Thanks

Do they? When was that changed?

You pose a very good question which probably should be addressed by CCP.


I do know that you can have positive Faction and Corporation standing and still be attacked by NPC corp station sentry guns for attacking it's property, such as the NPC Industrial Caravans you see leaving various stations in high security. Doing so will give you a Criminal Countdown timer which will last for 15 minutes after your last shot. They don't send any ships after you but you'll definitely lose Corporation standing and probably lose your ship as well.

I'm not sure about this but I think during that CC aggro timer, you're not allowed to dock in any station owned by that specific corporation. If your ship warped away and then came back within range of their sentry guns while the CC aggro timer is still active, the sentry guns will fire on you again which I believe resets the timer back to 15 minutes. I think jumping into another system with the CC aggro timer still active will also reset it back to 15 minutes again.

I really don't know what would happen once you have -5.00 or lower corporation standing. Seems logical to think that specific Corporation would consider you an outlaw, allow you no access and open fire on you even if you had high Faction standing. I've never heard of this ever happening but since this is Eve I wouldn't doubt it.

However, there is the recently added agent availability clause - all level 1 agents being available to all regardless of standings. The question is does that pertain only to Faction standing or does it also include Corporation standing as well? If it does include Corporation standing, then stations would allow you access and not fire on you even if you have -5.00 or lower Corporation standing.

Now if this statement is true -

- Then the only way to gain access to their level 1 agents would be to fleet up with someone else and share mission rewards for a while until you've gained above -5.00 Corporation standing. That would in effect nullify the recently added agent availability clause.

As I said, this is something that CCP needs to clarify.

Well, your friend was probably able to dock due to being in his pod since NPC's don't shoot at pod's.


As for getting info on this, might get a Dev reply to this thread within the next day or two. Also there's the petition option. Just make sure you file it in the right category. Of course that will take a few days to a week, maybe even longer, to get a reply.

Here's an excellent guide on how to successfully attack NPC Convoy's.

http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Guide:Attacking_Convoys

Bull*beep* found on the internet tends to be bull*beep*. Station guns shoot you when you got a global or a timer towards the station holder. Standings are ignored but by guns and for docking rights.