Loyalty Points

Loyalty Points

Loyalty points are part of the rewards for Missions (for the corporation your agent belongs to) and Incursions (in the case of CONCORD). You can also earn loyalty points for each of the four factions doing Factional Warfare. Loyalty points are gained for a specific corporation and will only be useful in stations owned by that particular corporation.

To see how many loyalty points you have, go to the Journal (either from your shortcut or the Neocom) then go to the Agents and Loyalty Points tab to see how many loyalty points you have. The information is presented per corporation and can be sorted by name or amount.

The Journal shows you how many loyalty points you have.

Improving loyalty point gains

There are skills that increases the loyalty point gain from missions, such as Distribution Connections (distribution missions), Mining Connections (mining missions) and Security Connections (security missions). Each level of the skill gives a +10% increase in loyalty point gained per mission, up to a total of +50% at skill level V. While there are no skill to improve the loyalty point gains from Incursions and factional warfare, you gain a considerably larger portion of LP/hour doing the larger headquarter sites and the faction tier heavily influences the reward for factional warfare activities.

Spending loyalty points

There are a few options available when it comes to spending your loyalty points. The most common use of loyalty points is to simply use them in the loyalty point store to get the ships, modules or items you want. Either for personal use or to simply sell the item on the market for ISK.

Before you spend your loyalty points you should always do a little bit of research. Even if a loyalty point store has an item you want, it might be more profitable for you to use your loyalty points on something that has a great ISK per loyalty point reward and use that ISK to simply buy the item you really want directly from the market instead. As weird as that sounds, it can often be very lucrative due to the way some items are in much higher demand than others, plus the effect of factional warfare on some items available in their faction stores (which usually means they can get the item cheaper than you can, thus pushing the prices down on the market).

The value of loyalty points

While supply and demand dictates current prices, you should be able to get at least 1,000 ISK / loyalty point and if you do your research and pick high value items you can stand to make much more. So when you do a mission and get an additional 2,000 LP on top of ISK for completing it, that roughly translates into an additional 2,000,000 ISK.

CONCORD loyalty points

Apart from spending it in the loyalty point store of CONCORD stations you can also convert it to loyalty points of another corporation. Most corporations have a 1:0.8 ratio (20% loss) but there are a few notable exceptions, for example the Sisters of EVE exchange rate is 1:0.4 (60% loss). You cannot exchange CONCORD loyalty points for loyalty points in any of the corporations involved with Factional Warfare or any of the pirate factions.

If you're looking to trade in items available from the CONCORD loyalty point store there's a Concord LP channel and mailing list ingame where sellers and buyers meet, see The "Concord LP" Public Trading Channel and Mailing List for more details.

You can convert CONCORD loyalty points from anywhere, assuming you have some existing loyalty points in the corporation, using the journal.

You can also use the Exchange LPs button in the top-right of the Loyalty Point Store window.

Loyalty point store

Loyalty points can be spent in any NPC station's loyalty point store. The store can be accessed through the station menu.

You can use quick filters from the drop-down menu or further refine the list by clicking the Edit Filters button.

You can quickly filter the results by Category, Group and Type, or by LP/ISK cost, items etc.

The range of things available in loyalty point stores vary, both on a faction/racial basis as well as on a corporation to corporation basis. You can usually guess what limits there might be from how offensive, militaristic a corporation is. A navy corporation like Ammatar Fleet will have more items, especially blueprints and combat related items available compared to other corporations, like say Ammatar Consulate.

You can find the exact items offered by corporations or stations from DaOpa's LP Stores Database page or use Fuzzwork's LP Store - Return of ISK page.

Item costs

Items in the store can have other costs associated with them, like ISK and items on top of the actual loyalty point cost. An implant, for example, usually costs both ISK and loyalty points while faction ammunition requires you to bring a batch of tech one charges to exchange them into faction ammunition, with the added cost of both ISK and loyalty points.

Item availability

While there are a lot of items that are available in a wide variety of loyalty point stores spanning across various factions, there are certain items that exists only in the loyalty point store of certain factions. Below is a list of common items available only in certain loyalty point stores.

Faction	Special items not available in other loyalty point stores
Amarr	Imperial Navy ships & items, Imperial Navy Command Mindlink (armour/information), Grail set (radar sensor strength).
Caldari	Caldari Navy ships & items, Caldari Navy Command Mindlink (shield/information), Talon set (gravimetric sensor strength).
Gallente	Federation Navy ships & items, Federation Navy Command Mindlink (armour/skirmish), Spur set (magnetometric sensor strength).
Minmatar	Republic Fleet ships & items, Republic Fleet Command Mindlink (shield/skirmish), Jackal set (ladar sensor strength).
CONCORD	Meta level Capital module blueprints, 2/4/6% Hardwiring implants, Command Mindlink (T2).
Sisters of EVE	Astero, Stratios and Nestor (or blueprint copies), Sisters probes & modules, Virtue set (probe strength).
O.R.E.	ORE modules, ORE Mining Director Mindlink (mining/shield), Harvest set (mining laser range).
Angel Cartel	Dramiel, Cynabal and Machariel (or blueprint copies), Arch Angel ammo, Halo set (signature).
Blood Raiders	Cruor, Ashimmu and Bhaalgorn (or blueprint copies), Blood crystals, Talisman set (capacitor emission modules)
Guristas Pirates	Worm, Gila and Rattlesnake (or blueprint copies), Guristas ammo, Crystal set (local shield boosts).
Mordu's Legion	Garmur, Orthrus and Barghest (or blueprint copies), Centurion set (range for electronic warfare modules).
Sansha's Nation	Succubus, Phantasm and Nightmare (or blueprint copies), Sanshas crystals, Slave set (armour).
Serpentis	Daredevil, Vigilant and Vindicator (or blueprint copies), Shadow ammo, Snake set (velocity).

Skillbooks from Loyalty Point Stores

This guide describes how to obtain skillbooks that can only be first-hand obtained through Loyalty Point stores.

Background On Loyalty Points

When running missions from an NPC corporation, the rewards typically consist of ISK and Loyalty Points. Loyalty Points are a specialized non-transferable currency that can only be spent at the Loyalty Point stores of the same NPC corporation that gave you Loyalty Points. Loyalty Point stores can sell items that are not otherwise first-hand obtainable by any other means, though some mission runners turn a profit by buying items from Loyalty Point stores and then reselling the same items on the open Market for a large quantity of ISK (thus effectively converting Loyalty Points into ISK).

To view what NPC corporations you have Loyalty Points with in-game, go to your NeoCom, click "Journal", click the "AGENTS" tab, and click the "LOYALTY POINTS" subtab. The list shown can be sorted alphabetically by corporation, or numerically by quantity of Loyalty Points.

To view what the Loyalty Point store of an NPC corporation has for sale, you must have at least one Loyalty Point with that corporation (meaning that you must have run a mission for them at some point in the past, else you will not be allowed to view what the Loyalty Point store has for sale). If this is true, then travel to a station owned by that NPC corporation, dock up, and click the Loyalty Point Store button in the Station Services window. The list of items you can see can be filtered, and by default only items that you can purchase right now are shown. However, you can change the view filter to show you everything available, regardless of whether or not you can afford it right now. All items require both ISK and Loyalty Points to purchase directly from the Loyalty Point store, and some items require additional items as part of the purchase. All items are required for the purchase, and lacking the necessary Loyalty Points, ISK, or items will prevent you from making the desired purchase. The selection of wares from all Loyalty Point stores of the same NPC corporation are uniform and constant; the selection only varies with the NPC corporation that owns that station, it does not vary with time or from station-to-station of the same corporation.

Loyalty-Point-Increasing Skills

In the Social category of skills are a set of skills that can increase the amount of Loyalty Points you gain when doing missions. For example, the in-game description of "Security Connections" reads "Understanding of military culture. Improves loyalty point gain by 10% per level when working for agents in the Security corporation division".

As of Incursion 1.5 there are only three agent divisions in the game (as opposed to 20 earlier) that offer missions to the player. For each division, there is one skill that affects all agents of the respective division, like in the following:

• Security Connections: affects Agents of the Security Division
• Distribution Connections: affects Agents of the Distribution Division
• Mining Connections: affects Agents of the Mining Division

Research and Development agents (who are related to Tech 2 production) are not affected by those skills.

The corporations that offer each of the LP-increasing skillbooks in their Loyalty Point stores are far too numerous to list here, and the reader is instead referred to here (may not be accurate anymore) for details.

Weapon Specialization Skills

In the Gunnery and Missile Operation categories are a set of skills with the word "Specialization" in them. These skills are prerequisites to mount Tech 2 modules of the type of weapon that they cover, and the skills increase the damage done by those modules. In the Drones category are also a set of skills with the word "Specialization" in them; these skills are needed to use Tech 2 drones of the given race. These skillbooks are first-hand obtainable from two general sources: NPCs on the open Market (for an ISK cost) and the Loyalty Point stores of particular corporations (for a Loyalty Point cost, but not ISK). Which corporations have which skillbooks on sale are listed below. It is worth noting that all of the corporations listed below also have the Military Connections and Political Connections skillbooks for sale (and therefore none of them have any of the other LP-increasing skillbooks for sale).

Amarr Specializations

The {Small/Medium/Large} {Pulse/Beam} Laser Specialization and Amarr Drone Specialization skillbooks are available from the Loyalty Point stores of all of the following, and only the following, corporations:

• 24th Imperial Crusade
• Amarr Navy
• Ammatar Fleet
• Blood Raiders
• Imperial Academy
• Ministry of Internal Order
• Ministry of War
• Royal Khanid Navy
• Sarum Family
• True Power

Caldari Specializations

The {Rocket/Standard Missile/Heavy Missile/Heavy Assault Missile/Cruise Missile/Torpedo} Specialization and Caldari Drone Specialization skillbooks are available from the Loyalty Point stores of all of the following, and only the following, corporations:

• Caldari Navy
• Corporate Police Force
• Guristas
• Home Guard
• Internal Security
• Ishukone Watch
• Lai Dai Protection Service
• Mordus Legion
• Peace and Order Unit
• Spacelane Patrol
• State Protectorate
• State War Academy
• Wiyrkomi Police Corps

Gallente Specializations

The {Small/Medium/Large} {Blaster/Railgun} Specialization and Gallente Drone Specialization skillbooks are available from the Loyalty Point stores of all of the following, and only the following, corporations:

• Federal Intelligence Office
• Federal Navy Academy
• Federation Customs
• Federation Defence Union
• Federation Navy
• Intaki Space Police
• Intaki Syndicate
• Serpentis Corporation

Minmatar Specializations

The {Small/Medium/Large} {Autocannon/Artillery} Specialization and Minmatar Drone Specialization skillbooks are available from the Loyalty Point stores of all of the following, and only the following, corporations:

• Archangels
• Brutor Tribe
• Dominations
• Guardian Angels
• Republic Fleet
• Republic Justice Department
• Republic Military School
• Republic Security Services
• Thukker Mix
• Tribal Liberation Force