Missions & Complexes

THORAMAN,

Thanks for asking but sadly the answer is no, you can't turn in tags to them every 3 months. Almost all of the Event Agents listed in 'The Plan' can only be completed once in the life of the character.

The only exception to that rule are the Epic Arcs which can be completed every 3 months.


DMC

Estella Osoka,

Thanks for posting. That's pretty good sound advice, especially about doing research beforehand. The part about gaining Corporation standing for access definitely pertains to all of the other Event Agents.

However, Cosmos Agents are an exception.

Unfortunately Cosmos Agents only accept Faction standing (modified by Social skills) for access. They also require a higher amount of Faction standing compared to all of the other Event Agents.


DMC

THORAMAN,

That's a very good question which requires two answers.

The first answer deals with the percentage of standing gained from completing missions. That percentage amount is fixed, IE, that's what the agent gives for that mission. Your Social skills will increase that percentage up to a set amount.

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Standings_mechanics

Using your example, you gained 0.5682% with Caldari and 0.1968% with Amarr. The primary standing gain was Caldari with Derived standing gain to Amarr. The amount of standing gained from those percentages is based on the actual amount you have left from your current standing to +10.00 standing. As your standings get closer to +10.00, the actual amount of standing gained get's smaller even though the percentage amount stays the same.


The second answer deals with the derived standings graph. Keep in mind the top graph 'In-Game Inter-Faction Relationships' is read from the top down and the bottom graph 'Derived Inter-Faction Standing Modifier' is read from left to right.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130310042624/http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Standings#Standing_Relationships

Caldari has +5.00 standing towards Amarr.
Amarr has +7.00 standing towards Caldari.

If doing missions for Caldari, it will continue gaining standings with Caldari up to +10.000 Faction standing. However, the Derived standing gains from Caldari to Amarr will only go up to +5.000 standing. After that no more Derived standing gain from Caldari to Amarr.

Now if doing missions for Amarr, it will continue gaining standings with Amarr up to +10.000 Faction standing. However, the Derived standing gains from Amarr to Caldari will only go up to +7.000 Faction standing. After that no more Derived standing gains from Amarr to Caldari.

It take's a bit of time to get your head warped around how it works. CCP definitely doesn't like making things easy. Anyway, I hope this helps.



DMC

EDIT :
The same applies to the negative Derived standing hits.

Completing Caldari Event missions will incur negative standing hits with Minmatar down to -2.000 and with Gallente down to -5.000 Faction standing. After that no more negative standing hits are incurred for gaining Caldari standings.

Shamash Nergal,

Thanks for posting. I think what you're asking is will 'The Plan' get you +8.00 Faction standing with Amarr and Caldari without making Gallente and Minmatar drop to -5.00 or lower standing.

Short answer, I'm not sure. The Faction Standing Repair Plan is basically just a plan which can be customized and worked to fit each players specific situation. You don't have to follow it to the letter or constantly work it if it's not needed.

Having said that, if you train up the Social skills and run all of the Amarr and Caldari Event Agents listed in 'The Plan', I see no problem getting close to or above +8.00 standing.

Of course you'll have to watch your standings with the other Factions and running the Level 1 SoE Epic Arc can definitely help keep them above -5.00 standing. The main thing to remember is don't destroy Faction ships / structures since that will definitely drop those Factions below -5.00 standing.

Anyway, hope that helps and good luck to you.



DMC

Good question.

There's a few missions but the majority of the encounter missions are against Pirate / Merc NPC's. Also most of the mission locations are in the static Cosmos Complexes. A few of the missions are in a Deadspace area which will spawn when the offer is accepted.

The trick to running Cosmos is first research the agents mission series. Usually the mission objective is to acquire a specific item. Doesn't matter how. Most items can be bought from Public Contracts and or Regional Markets. Cosmos missions are mainly seek and secure.

When you talk to an agent, don't accept the mission offer, just let it stay offered in your journal. The offer will stay for 1 week which gives you time to seek out and acquire the mission objective. After that if more time is needed you can accept it which gives you another week. That's a total of 2 weeks to actually complete the mission. The 2nd, 3rd, etc parts of the mission series will be offered automatically in the journal. Just do the same thing with them. Let the offer stay in the journal and go collect up the required item. After you get the item, accept the mission offer and collect both mission pay and bonus reward.

The guide links in 'The Plan' makes researching the agents fairly easy. Since you only need to keep Gallente and Minmatar above -5.00 standing, destroying a few of there ships shouldn't be a problem and if needed, you can always work some of their Event Agents.


DMC

Vira'li,

An easy way to check if you've accessed an agent in the past is to open the agents info box and check the standings tab. It will show the agents standing towards you. If it's 0.00 (neutral) then you haven't accessed the agent. Any other amount shown, either positive or negative, means you've accessed that agent in the past.

Since Avrue Auz is a level 1 agent, standing for access isn't a problem. While doing those missions you will be introduced to another agent - Mamo Guerre - who's mission series must be completed first to finish the mission series for Avrue Auz. You can check info on Mamo Guerre standing towards you as well for verification.

Having said that, sometimes agents tend to be lazy (bugged) and a GM can usually get them working again.

Right now your best option is to file a Support Ticket (petition) in game asap and hopefully a GM can fix the problem.

Hope that helps and good luck.


DMC

Audemed,

Thanks for posting that question.

Training Diplomacy level 5 will raise a -10.00 standing to -6.00 standing. Also don't forget to train up Social which will increase the amount of standing gained for completing missions. Criminal Connections will increase the current positive Pirate standing which will help gain access to higher level agents much faster.

As for actually gaining Pirate Faction standings, you can either grind level 1 missions + Storyline for Serpentis or continue running missions for Angel to gain derived standing gains towards Serpentis. On that note there's also Angel Cosmos Agents that will help raise Serpentis Faction with derived standing increase.

Eventually you'll get Serpentis Faction up above -2.00 standing to access their higher level agents.

Good luck to you.



DMC

There are too many variables to calculate time. But it doesn't take long, with Social 5 and Connections 5, starting with no base standings (but w/ Connections 5 that's 2.0 to start with all corporations), I went from 2.0 to 5.20 with 33 missions and 2 storylines. Standings gains are diminishing returns, meaning the closer you get to 10, the harder it is to raise the standings.

They do not "degrade" unless you get negative standings from some other source (e.g., you run a storyline for an opposing faction).

am I right in saying in t he social skills, social V is the only must have skill before starting a standings grind? The others dont effect total gain from missions, just helps the modified standings?

oh I agree, that and diplomacy I think it is I feel are must have, I just meant the skills I needed before I fired the first shot or did my first rookie missions etc.