Missions & Complexes

That's very true, Diplomacy lv 5 will turn -10 into -6. I thought about that as well but he posted, and I quote - "He is -6 something with these factions."

I figured that means he hasn't trained Diplomacy lv 5 yet. Hopefully he still has a couple of levels left to train.

As for grinding missions with SoE verses Minmatar or Gallente, I'm a firm believer that direct standing gains are better than derived standing gains due to getting a much larger amount of increase with the direct standing gain. Yes SoE will give derived standing increase to both Gallente and Minmatar but I think it's slower than going direct.

Besides that, if he trains Diplomacy and Social lv 5, it shouldn't take very long at all to get above -5.00 which is when he can enter Gallente / Minmatar space safely and start working the Event Agents listed in 'The Plan'.

I guess it all depends on the Eye Of The Beholder.

However, I do agree that SoE is definitely a good choice to help raise Gallente & Minmatar standings............

..............................after all Event Agents are completed of course.



DMC

Sorry to disappoint you but that was a bug which has been corrected by CCP recently. The way Faction standing increase was designed and implemented for the majority of time in this game = Faction Standing increase can not be shared.

As for buying Faction standing increase, ie, have someone else do the missions - that will still require you to log into the game, fleet up, talk to agent, warp fleet to mission site or make bookmark and give it to fleet, etc. Then when mission is completed, you will have to talk to the agent again, complete mission, then repeat the whole process again....and again.....and again, etc.

Hell, might as well just do the mission yourself and make some ISK / security status increase, unless of course you're just a market alt or an Industrial character that has no combat skills.

Anyway, thanks for posting.


DMC

It was fixed and unfixed many times. CCP keeps removing epic arc faction standing sharing, but it seems to revert after random patches.

They gave in to your petition? I'll have to do that next time. CCP has stated that it's not supposed to split and that it's a bug.

Ugg... Yeah, I gotta try that next time.

Just moving this thread to the front in case someone needs it.

I'm currently working on getting my Gallente and Minmatar Faction standing back up above +7 which will bring them close to equal with Amarr and Caldari. Then I'll complete the last few Empire Cosmos Agents.

I also needed to bump this thread to keep it from getting locked.





DMC

Yes, but:

You can share mission rewards until your character has the requisite standings to run L4s with that corp (5.0 modified), however you need at least -2.0 modfied with a faction to run any agent that's better than L1. So if your faction standings are below -2.0 you will need to whore L1s and the resulting storylines until you get there. And/or do L1 datacenter and COSMOS missions as well as career agents; stuff you read about in the guide.

Ifly Uwalk is correct. (Thanks)

Until the Gallente Faction is above -2.00 standing, you'll only be able to access level 1 Gallente Agents.

Training the Diplomacy skill will help a lot, especially if you're at -10.00 standing. Level 5 Diplomacy will turn -10.00 standing into -6.00 standing. Once you get the Gallente Faction above -5.00 standing, you can safely enter Gallente space and work the Event Agents listed in 'The Plan'.

The Social skill will increase the amount of standing gained for completing missions. Good luck to you.



DMC

Feanira Darr,

I'm not sure what your particular situation is at the moment, a little more info would help a lot.

The reason I said -6.00 modified standing with lv 5 Diplomacy on a -10.00 base standing is due to looking at my own stats of the Pirate NPC Factions who's ships I constantly destroy.



DMC

Ahhh, OK.

Well, when you do decide to fix your standings just remember that it won't take very long at all. Basically just train up the appropriate Social skills and work 'The Plan'..



Thanks for posting.


DMC