EVE New Citizens Q&A

When doing security missions, you need to pay attention as to whom the enemy is. If they're putting you up against Amarr or Caldari, then naturally, your standings will drop. To ensure your standings with other factions don't drop, you'll want to only accept missions where the enemy are the NPC pirate factions; Serpentis, etc.

If memory serves, Sisters of EVE security missions, have a verrrrry small chance of faction (Amarr, etc) killing missions. So you may wish to consider them. Unless I'm wrong in my recollection, in which case, ignore what I've said.

The tags you've been collecting are used in conjunction with LP (loyalty points) to buy certain items. Federation faction modules may require ISK and an amount of tags, to purchase.

You may decline a mission once every 4 hours without standings penalty.

Repairing your standings with these factions isn't too difficult. There are several skills under the Social tree that will help in this.

'Question about standing'




Answer about standing: it's not as easy as sitting

Thanks for the responses. I trained a couple levels of diplomacy and that helped. I was surprised to find out it has an immediate effect. I though it would only be for future missions. So now they still don't like me but it's not so bad. I'll work "the plan" later when I have a better understanding about how things work. When ever that is.

To avoid standings loss in the future, you can:

1. Refuse missions that send you against the other Empires; only do missions against drones, pirates, or neutral mercs. As it's been said above, each mission will have the insignia of the opponent you're facing in the "Objectives" area towards the top. Just decline such missions.

Right-click the agent and Show Info, then switch to the agent's "Notes" tab; you can type up a comment in there that is just for you (nobody else will see it). Put in the date and the time when you refused the mission.

You can refuse a mission from each agent once every 4 hours, with no repercussions. So check, if it's bad refuse, note the time, wait 4 hrs (do missions for other agents in the meantime).

2. Only do "regular" missions for the agent, refuse the "storyline / important" missions that are offered every 16 regular missions. The important missions are very rewarding, but they also change your standings with the empires.

You can Show Info and follow the info pages from the agent to his/her corp, to its empire, to the Standings tab for the empires. If Amarr Empire hates Minmatar Republic with a hatred of -5 and viceversa, that means every time you gain +0.1 points with Amarr Empire for doing an important mission, you also lose -0.05 with Minmatar (and probably -0.02 with Gallente) because they hate each other.

If you do just regular missions, you only gain standings with the NPC corp that owns the agent, and they don't hate each other. You can have +10 with Caldari Navy and +10 with Gallente Federation Navy and 0 with Caldari and Gallente, and reap pretty much all the benefits. Jita station is Caldari Navy, Dodixie station is Federation Navy, you get tax reduction at both places.

EvE Survival can help you determine which missions are against one of the 4 major factions. It has a lot of other useful information as well.

Mission Drone says: "Ginnie, you killed my father, prepare to die!"

Beware that standings are cached, and you may need to logout-login to see a change, or worse, for that change to be effective.

Example: back when one needed standing to anchor a control tower in hisec, I did missions until I had 7.0 standing, but I still couldn't anchor in a 0.7 sec system. When I logged-out and back in, I immediately could.

That could make more of a difference when you find NPC want to shoot you. [EDIT: of course logout safely in a station, or use the ESC menu option to logout safely in space.]

This word "inconceivable", I don't think it means what you think it means.