Missions & Complexes

I was looking into getting standings with all factions about 2 years ago. I did figure out that if you swap sides you can go up, but that didn't yield that much of an result. So found the plan, even though I did skip most of the stuff from there, I found out about L4 epic arcs and that they don't cause standings hit, so decided to skip every storyline and anti-faction missions and just do Incursions, Epic arcs and occasional regular missions. After 2 years, and countless epic arcs (2-3 toons doing them every 3 months, I'm guessing I completed each epic arc at least 15-20 times :D)

My main now has (unmodified)
Amarr Empire 7.82
Gallente Federation 6.49
Minmatar Republic 6.29
Caldari State 5.72
Servant Sisters of EVE 4.94
Khanid Kingdom 3.78
Mordu's Legion Command 3.17
The InterBus 3.05
The Society of Conscious Thought 1.93
ORE 1.33
Jove Empire 0.91
Ammatar Mandate 0.88

My alt has (unmodified)
Amarr Empire 8.38
Caldari State 8.09
Mordu's Legion Command 7.20
Ammatar Mandate 6.50
Gallente Federation 5.31
Minmatar Republic 5.10
Khanid Kingdom 5.01
Servant Sisters of EVE 1.81
The InterBus 1.61

Hello, I am trying to reach positive standing with each empire, and gain access to a lvl 4 R&D agent for each empire. I started with the amarr, and at the time I did not plan on keeping positive standings. So currently my highest standing is 0.91 for the Caldari. The lowest is minmatar at -1.94, I currently have access to lvl 1 R&D agents for the Carthum Conglomerate. I am going to begin using 'The Plan' in the hopes of reaching positive standings for each empire. I have a few questions regarding the point at which standings equalize. I am not planning on raising them all to 5.00 or above, and by positive I mean simply want to be welcome in each empire 0.04 as a low example would be fine with me. My question is how far do I need to go with the standings for each empire. I do not have access to lvl 4 agents for any corp, and in your opinion would i need to gain access to lvl 4 epic arc and cosmos agents to achieve this?. (also first forum post lol )

Is there an mission to boost caldari empire standings without killing the other 3 empire standings? Similar to how SOE missions boost gallante without decreasing other 3 empire standings.

Congrats.

I set a goal to get above 5 standings with all factions before crius so I could anchor a tower anywhere in Empire. That reason doesn't exist anymore, but I still want to accomplish the goal. I just wish CCP would quit nerfing the rewards that go with standings.

Do you have a recommended ship or class of ship for completing most of these missions?

A T2 fit Vargur and a T2 fit Cov Ops can do every mission in the Epic Arc except for some of the branch missions with courier stuff.

This man speaks the truth though, as all those ships are viable. However many people report their faction standings didn't change after the arcs. To each their own.

Wow, got some action happening in this thread again.

Thank you all for posting info here. It's definitely helpful and very much appreciated.


That's a very good question, not to mention also very important.

Since I'm Minmatar I only used Minmatar ships. Also I had completed the Event Agents listed in 'The Plan' before CCP did their Ship re-balancing so all of my ship fits were max fit using T2, Faction and Deadspace modules.

The main thing to remember is that the difficulty level of Cosmos Agent missions are actually a step higher than regular Agent missions. Basically that means a level 2 Cosmos Agent is actually equal to a level 3 regular Agent.

Having said that I can only list ship class, not specific names.

All of the level 1 Event Agents can be easily completed in a combat Frigate, best to use an Assault Frigate when you do the level 1 Cosmos Agents.

For level 2 Cosmos Agent missions I suggest a well fit Cruiser. I actually used 2 different types. A basic Combat Cruiser (T1) and a Force Recon Cruiser (T2), depending on the mission.

For majority of level 3 Cosmos Agent missions I used a T1 Battlecruiser.

For level 4 Cosmos Agent missions and also for the Epic Arcs I used a T3 Strategic Cruiser. (The only Epic Arc mission I can't complete solo is the final mission in the Caldari Epic Arc due to the perma-jam being done by Elite Cruisers. I have a Fleet member help with that mission.)

At various times depending on the situation I'd use other ships, such as a Shuttle, Industrial, Blockade Runner, etc. Some missions send you into Complexes that only allow a specific class of ship and other missions send you into low sec so a ship able to use a Covert Ops Cloak module is very helpful (Force Recon, Blockade Runner, T3 Cruiser). Also remember some of the missions require probing and some require Hacking so you'll need a ship capable of that while doing combat as well.

The Event Agent missions can only be completed once so best to be prepared with a large variety of ships to use including a Battleship. Also make sure you have some friends online and nearby cause some of the missions may require Fleet members to complete.

Sorry I couldn't be more specific, hope this is helpful and good luck to you.


DMC

Well, I've listed various walk-through guide links in 'The Plan' for most of the Event Agent missions. As such, it makes it a lot easier to complete them. I suggest you do a little bit of research and view them first before actually contacting those Agents.

Most of the required items can be obtained from Public Contracts and or Regional Markets if needed which makes it much easier to complete those missions. Just remember doing that can get rather expensive but greatly reduces the amount of time required to actually complete those missions.

I mainly only did that when the mission was against one of the 4 main Empire Factions, which wasn't too often. Most of the time I'd do some research first by viewing the various guides for a specific Agent and make a list of all items required to complete that Agents mission series. Then I'd go seek and secure those items first whenever possible before even contacting that Agent. Doing that allowed me to complete the missions and collect both the mission and bonus time rewards.

It also gave me a good idea on what type of ship to use as well.

Anyway, hope you have much success and good luck working 'The Plan'.


DMC

Hello and welcome to Eve.

Faction standings are a bit of a puzzle right at first but this Standings table makes it much easier to understand. Whenever you complete a Storyline or Event Agent mission, your Faction standings will change. Also destroying certain structures and NPC ships will affect your standings as well.

To build up Faction standing directly with Thukker Tribe requires completing storyline missions gained after completing 16 regular missions. There's also 7 Thukker Tribe Cosmos Agents available as well.

Just remember whenever you gain Faction standing directly with Thukker Tribe, you'll lose Faction standing with all the other Factions except Minmatar Republic. Thukker Tribe has positive standing with Minmatar Republic so they'll gain derived Faction standings indirectly whenever Faction standing is gained with Minmatar Republic.

In my opinion it's actually better to build up Thukker Tribe with derived standing gains from Minmatar Republic. I'd save the Thukker Tribe Cosmos Agents for later after gaining high standing with the other Empire Factions.

In order to access high level Thukker Agents, just maintain their Faction above -2.00 standing. For traveling maintain their Faction above -5.00 standing. The Diplomacy skill should be able to achieve that quite easily.

Good luck to you, hope this was helpful.


DMC

Be aware of the standings increase penalties that you get from storylines too... running for Minmatar will tank your amarr, amatarr and khanid standings.