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=== Overall recommendations === | === Overall recommendations === | ||
*Judge early in your career whether or not you want to stay friendly with all empire factions. There are some benefits to this (freedom of travel mainly), which must be weighed against the rewards of achieving excellent standing with one faction. | *Judge early in your career whether or not you want to stay friendly with all empire factions. The mechanism of [[NPC standings#Derived standings|derived standings]] makes this a non-trivial task. 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. Do not kill faction ships (decline those missions), and have a way to balance the effects of storylines once in a while. With good forethought, you can avoid the horrible grinding mess that it can be to recover extremely low faction standings. | *If you do want to keep faction standings balanced, the best way is to not let them drop in the first place. Do not kill faction ships (decline those missions), and have a way to balance the effects of storylines once in a while. With good forethought, you can avoid the horrible grinding mess that it can be to recover extremely low faction standings. | ||
*It is not difficult to keep positive standings (all above zero) with all the Empire factions simultaneously, even if running only normal missions. Just run missions for a faction when it approaches or dips below zero, and decline all missions which require you to kill an Empire faction's ships. Only the [[Epic arcs|L4 epic arcs]] (and the SoE Epic Arc) can be used to gain faction standing without losing other standings as a side effect. | *It is not difficult to keep positive standings (all above zero) with all the Empire factions simultaneously, even if running only normal missions. Just run missions for a faction when it approaches or dips below zero, and decline all missions which require you to kill an Empire faction's ships. Only the [[Epic arcs|L4 epic arcs]] (and the SoE Epic Arc) can be used to gain faction standing without losing other standings as a side effect. | ||