EVE New Citizens Q&A

I know I'm late to the party on this one... but there's your problem right there.

There is literally no benefit to positive pirate faction standing if you have the standings to operate in high sec. And yes, I mean LITERALLY. Even the pirate faction ships are obtained much faster by doing some high-sec missions and buying them off the market with the resulting isk than farming LP for the pirates, so your access to gear with positive Cartel etc is actually inferior, and pirates will always be red to you in aggression terms even if you've got 9.99 with them.

So... yeah. Ditch this goal entirely, it's a bad goal that's preventing you from doing what you want to do now in exchange for a future tradeoff that essentially doesn't ever actually pay off. I'm all for farming pirate rep up just for the hell of it, but only do it when you're already _doing something else that already puts you in the area_.

@ Lan Wang

Thanks for the information.

I did consider going into low-sec using a rifter to check it out. Then yesterday I added four +3 implants for a boost to the sp gain. Idea being to boost the sp to a reasonable level before discarding them probably by being podded. After which I wasn't going to replace them.

As for the serpentis if they're friends/allies I'll treat them as such.


@ Alleja DeSan-na

Thanks for the information and the link


@ Cellini Benvenuto

Only rep I wish to protect is Angel Cartel and their friends and allies. So yeah there is plenty of scope still left for at least keeping myself occupied for awhile, whilst training. Made easier of course once I decided it's unlikely that I'll be able to have good relations with all pirate NPC corps.


@ Lost Greybeard

Well it is a risk. Only have this character and don't intend to have any others. The account is by sub, so don't need to worry about earning enough to extend game time by PLEX.

All I really need is to be able to make enough to cover the PvP losses, which I'm sure will be quite a few especially to start with.

Once I leave high-sec I don't really see much of a reason to go back there.

The one thing that's a pity is that if you have good relations with an NPC pirate corp, their members should treat you as friendly.


@ Cyber SGB

Good advice, those channels could help as well as other channels. Might even mean that they won't all shoot at me when I get there.