The Ploy: Caldari Path

The Ploy: Caldari Path is a guide to completing The Ploy for those who have high Caldari Faction Standing.

You can follow the Caldari Path only if you have the required Unmodified Standings:

Required Standing	Connections IV	Connections V
Gallente	1.32	0.69
Caldari	3.85	3.28
Minmatar	0.12	-0.57
Amarr	4.17	3.63

EVE Online displays only Effective Standings. Chris Halsky's Sheet will suggest which Path you should take based on your current Standings.

Step 1: Career Agents

You need to achieve at least the following Unmodified Standings:

Required Standing	Connections IV	Connections V
Gallente	2.11	1.72
Caldari	4.30	3.93
Minmatar	1.36	0.93
Amarr	4.29	3.93

Complete any ten out of fifteen Career Agent Mission chains for each Empire in the following order:

• 5 Gallente
• 5 Minmatar
• 5 Gallente
• 5 Minmatar
• 5 Caldari
• 5 Amarr
• 5 Caldari
• 5 Amarr

Do this to keep both Gallente and Minmatar Faction Standings high while also reaching 5.0 Faction Standing with both Caldari and Amarr so you can start their Epic Arcs.

You can skip Step 1: Career Agents and proceed to Step 2: First and second Epic Arc if you have the required Unmodified Standings.

Step 2: First and second Epic Arc

Complete the Epic Arcs in the following order:

1. Penumbra
2. Right to Rule

Avoid destroying Gallente ships in Penumbra.

Step 3: Re-balance Standings

You need to achieve at least the following Unmodified Standings:

Required Standing	Connections IV	Connections V
Gallente	3.27	2.93
Caldari	4.11	3.82
Minmatar	2.63	2.66
Amarr	4.10	3.81

In addition, you will need 5.0 Effective Standing with:

• Caldari
• Amarr
• Gallente's Impetus Corporation
• Minmatar's Brutor Tribe Corporation

To achieve the required Standings you need to complete seven Storyline Missions:

• for Gallente Corporations for +1% Gallente Standing reward
• for Minmatar Corporations for +1% Minmatar Standing reward

To generate the Storyline Missions you can run missions for Gallente's Impetus and Minmatar's Brutor Tribe Corporations. This will simultaneously increase your Corporation Standings and allow you to start the Gallente and Minmatar Epic Arcs.

Instead of Storyline Missions you could do:

• Career Agent Missions
• COSMOS Missions
• Data Center Missions

Step 4: Third, forth and fifth Epic Arc

Complete the Epic Arcs in the following order:

1. Syndication
2. Wildfire
3. The Blood-Stained Stars in which you will side with Minmatar

Avoid destroying Amarr ships during the Church Of The Obsidian Epic Arc Mission. The Ploy assumes you will lose no more than 0.004 Amarr Faction Standing during the whole Epic Arc.