Crime & Punishment

Well I don't know how much sec status you lose per kill cause I never cared but to get it back to neutral you can gain clone tags and hand them in to concord stations for sec status. Or you can carebear it up and kill rats for dank sec status ticks. -5 will see you perma flashy in highsec. There is also a scaling thing for sec status of systems but again I've never bothered to learn it

As long as you leave the pods alone (where concord keeps records), the sec status losses are small.

Pods are the sec status killer. Stay away from them and you can have quite a lot of fun without doing too much damage to your sec status. I always managed to keep my sec status between -2 and 0 by 'PvP-ratting' in between looking for fights in losec. Find a ship that works both in PvP and against the local 'rats, and you should be golden.

Also, podding pilots who are in NPC corps delivers a standings hit to you relative to that corp. This applies even if you're shooting them under non-criminal circumstances (i.e. killing flashy pods in hisec, killing pods of people who aggressed you in losec, etc.). Not really a big deal, but it's something to be aware of if you ever plan on doing missions for said corp.

Jan has a Concord Office quite near Jita.

Use your staton-trading alt to get ISK
use ISK to buy tags.

do whatever you want... jump clone in (now that standings are not necessary for clones) and spend ISK on tags and sec.

going from -10 to "can fly everywhere" takes less ISK than 1 Plex. (before the Plex changes)
No problems!

Don't!
It's that simple.

At 0.3 I think you can agress neutrals 4-5 times before you'll be awarded a nice minus to complement your sec status.

Best way to manage sec status: Stop worrying about it.

Hint: pushing sec status further towards 0 if you are already above -2 is wasted time and ISK. There is no ingame reason for, except roleplay (a carebear) maybe. I keep my status in check with tags and avoiding pod kills in empire, but only because I'm living in highsec currently.

There are really 2 parts to this.


Sec status w/ CONCORD. It's well documented and straight forward. The easiest way I have found to keep full access to HS is pretty easy. Run missions. Yeah really - that's the easiest way. Here's the thing that makes it work - You and say 5 of your pals do some naughty stuff and wear down you sec status (yeah). You and all your buddies just find a suitable place and blitz some lvl 4s together in the same fleet. Watch the magic happen. It's like 3 random Lvl 4 missions to erase 2 ganks. So your gank team does their stuff - say 4-6 ganks. Hop in interceptors and run to the mission hub and blast through 20 or so missions as a group (which goes really fast) and you're all set. I feel the bigger problem with HS ganking is the kill rights. No matter how careful I think I'm being there is at least once / week that someone would activate kill rights on my ganknado and wonk it at an inconvenient time. This only works if you're doing selective ganking (mission cream puff, freighters and so on).

If you're a CODE or codelike ninny and wonking every barge you come across seems fun- that's a whole other thing. In that case - fly your crappy little fast ships, ignore CONCORD, facpo and everyone else and mindlessly wonk barges all day long or until the deep immersion role playing just becomes too much to bear. Whatever - you guys are special snow flakes and no amount of common sense, therapy or medication seems to snap some of you out of your fantasy. To each his own.


NPC faction standing. If you're wonking players PODs in npc corps - you take hits there. On the one hand if you're never ever planning on needing npc faction standing, don't worry about it. On the other hand - you never know what you'll be needing. Why I keep my eye on it - FW. I've never been into it. I've never joined it. I've always had better things to do. Next patch/release/expansion - FW may be the coolest space place ever. It would make me super sad to miss out on that as I repair my npc faction status. PLUS - if you **** off galente enough, they will hassle you every time you enter their space. I think the only way to regain npc faction status is by doing stuff for them. There aren't caldary tags that you can buy. To me playing one faction of vs another is a big PITA and something I don't generally want to learn about or deal with. That being said, I don't POD npc corp players unless they somehow earn it.

Sure, but the lower the sec status the less you lose from kills. Hence the cost optimal is staying at the edge. An average 2h lowsec roam costs me one transporter clone tag to repair.

EDIT: the tags to get closer to 0 are more expensive than those to get up to -2 from below (of course ).