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Standings are broken!
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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2015-12-09 13:15:35 UTC
Xenuria wrote:
Imiarr Timshae wrote:
Xenuria wrote:
Some standings can be increased at the small cost of others but you will always be without max standing for every faction. It's just not mathematically possible, unfortunately.


That depends on your definition of "every faction". Many players in this context refer to the big 4 Caldari Amarr Minmatar Gallente as "Every faction". Epic arc mechanics allow you to be positive to all of these factions at once and significantly so.

You can also use the same mechanics to be high to all highsec factions such as SoE, Ammatar, Khanid etc by running storylines for these factions and getting extremely high with them while running Epic arcs periodically to keep "the big 4" high.

It takes forever but at least in the sense of "Every faction" excluding pirates and fringe groups like Thukker and so forth, it's very possible.


Show me somebody with 10.00 Jove Standing while also having at least 9.00 in all 4 major factions.



I am unclear why anyone would care about Jove Standing at all ?

Or is this a semantic argument based on the fact that "every faction" technically includes Jove?
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2015-12-09 17:43:30 UTC
Xenuria wrote:
Imiarr Timshae wrote:
Xenuria wrote:
Some standings can be increased at the small cost of others but you will always be without max standing for every faction. It's just not mathematically possible, unfortunately.


That depends on your definition of "every faction". Many players in this context refer to the big 4 Caldari Amarr Minmatar Gallente as "Every faction". Epic arc mechanics allow you to be positive to all of these factions at once and significantly so.

You can also use the same mechanics to be high to all highsec factions such as SoE, Ammatar, Khanid etc by running storylines for these factions and getting extremely high with them while running Epic arcs periodically to keep "the big 4" high.

It takes forever but at least in the sense of "Every faction" excluding pirates and fringe groups like Thukker and so forth, it's very possible.


Show me somebody with 10.00 Jove Standing while also having at least 9.00 in all 4 major factions.

Jove isn't one of the Empire Factions. There's actually only 8 Factions, otherwise known as Empire Factions, that control high sec systems :

1 - Amarr Empire
2 - Caldari State
3 - Gallente Federation
4 - Minmatar Republic
5 - Ammatar Mandate
6 - Khanid Kingdom
7 - The Interbus
8 - Concord Assembly

Gaining very high standings with the top 4 Empire Factions (Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, Minmatar) is easily obtainable, especially with the Epic Arcs. Over time the next 2 Empire Factions (Ammatar, Khanid) can also achieve high standings. Currently the only way to gain positive Faction standing with The Interbus is through derived standing gains. As for the last Empire Faction - Concord - there's no option available in-game to gain Faction standing.


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Ginnie
Doomheim
#23 - 2015-12-09 17:46:32 UTC
I have very low standing with the Gallente (-8) and Minmater (-7) because I do run faction missions. I think they are fun and very rewarding; the dog tags are worth a lot on the market because everyone is so concerned about their faction standings they don't run missions that drop them. High demand with low supply equals a nice profit margin.

IMHO, I am better off running missions for one NPC corp, or at least corps under the same faction, for the standing and LPs. It takes times to build up faction standing to at least 4 in order to run level 4 missions for any NPC corp under a particular faction.

But to directly respond to the original post, yes it is much easier and quicker to loose standing, then to build up standing. It's definitely not a 1-to-1 ratio.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
The Golden Serpent
A Drunken Squirrels' Conspiracy for Revenge
#24 - 2015-12-10 04:34:35 UTC
Think you can betray the Amarr Empire so lightly, think again!

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Owen Levanth
Sagittarius Unlimited Exploration
#25 - 2015-12-10 09:39:15 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
It's more realistic to get slapped for running missions for the enemy.

Why do you believe it would be more realistic to have it easier to gain standings?


Well, it wouldn't be realistic, but it would be nicer gameplay. Because let's face it, over the last years CCP has taken out most of the advantages high standings had, anyway. (POS, jump clones)

It's more sensible to make standings easier to achieve and hold now, since standings have dropped so much in value.
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