Faction Standings: Difference between revisions

In the vast majority of cases, when you gain faction standing you will lose derived standings from factions that dislike them and gain derived standings with factions that like them.&nbsp; The exact amount of hatred or friendliness depends on the two factions' relationship and can be found on a chart like this: [http://www.newedenlibrary.net/eon/faction_standings.shtml http://www.newedenlibrary.net/eon/faction_standings.shtml]<br>  

*Shooting that faction's ships during a mission or complex: Significant standing drop based on the value of the ships destroyed.  

*Doing [[COSMOS missions]]: Increase, with higher level missions granting more standing.&nbsp; These missions are more complex than normal and may require special attention and research.&nbsp; They may only be done once.  

*Doing the SoE [[epic arc]]: You will be able to choose a faction at the end and you are granted standing with that faction.&nbsp; This does not negatively affect your other factions.&nbsp; Can be redone approximately once every 3 months.  

*Quite simply, if you are below -2, you have limited options.&nbsp; First, train Diplomacy skill to as high as you can.&nbsp; This will modify your negative standings upward by a certain percent.&nbsp; You should do all the tutorials, datacenters, and COSMOS&nbsp;missions you can, for both that faction and ones that are friendly with it for the derived standings.&nbsp; Remember even if Caldari State is -3, if Amarr Empire is -1 you will still have access to all the Amarr agents and can even run L4 missions for them which will eventually get you derived storyline standing.&nbsp; If you have no more tutorials, COSMOS, or datacenter missions available, your only recourse are L1 low quality agents (very small faction standing increases with storylines), playing the derived standings game, doing the epic arc, or joining Faction Warfare as detailed below.&nbsp; It's a long road to travel.  

*Remember that all this work will be hurting the standings of opposing factions, to the point where they tend to balance out between -1 and 1.&nbsp; It is extremely difficult to get high faction standing (e.g. 5 or 6)&nbsp;with two opposing factions, let alone all the empire factions.

*Judge early in your career whether or not you want to stay friendly with all empire factions.&nbsp; There are some benefits to this (freedom of travel mainly), which must be weighed against the rewards of achieving excellent standing with one faction.  

*If you do want to keep faction standings balanced, the best way is to not let them drop in the first place.&nbsp; Do not kill faction ships (decline those missions), and have a way to balance the effects of storylines once in a while.&nbsp; With good forethought you can avoid the horrible grinding mess that it can be to recover extremely low faction standings.

*[http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Standing http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Standing]

*[http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1263174 http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1263174]