Security status

For system security statuse see System Security

Standing and status

Your personal standing with each of the different factions decide whether they like you or not, to the point where they'll send their faction navy after you if your standing drops low enough. In addition, your overall security status also decides whether the faction police will hunt you down or not.

In short:

• CONCORD forces deal with criminals.
• Faction police forces deal with outlaws.
• Faction navy forces deal with people who have low faction standing.

Security status

Security Status is a measure of how law abiding a pilot has been recently. It does not however show how law abiding a pilot may be in the future, or has been in the past.

This value ranges from -10 to +10, with a pilot losing security status for criminal offences, and gained for destruction of NPC pirates and turning in clone soldier tags at security offices -- however, it is significantly difficult, not to mention pointless, to raise security status above +5.0 as this is the cap for gains by killing regular NPC pirates.

Effects of Security status

Having too low security status will have effects on your life in high and low security space.

Low security status

Once your security status reaches -2.0 you are flagged as having a low security status to all pilots, often called a "banana" for the default yellow indicator.

Outlaw

Once your security status drops to -4.95 or below you become an outlaw, also commonly referred to as "perma flashy".

It means anyone can attack you at any time without CONCORD interfering, even in high security space. It also means that assisting you would be a criminal offense, even for your own corporation members. That means anyone who needs to assist you would have to turn their safeties off to assist, and in the process temporarily become a criminal for fifteen minutes. In highsec this means that CONCORD will destroy you if you assist an outlaw, even though they leave the outlaw alone (it is the faction police's job to hunt outlaws).

Travel restrictions

Once your security status drops below certain thresholds, the empire faction police will start hunting you when you enter high security system. Any cloaking device fitted to your ship will also be disabled based on the same criteria, so you cannot cloak up to avoid the faction police.

• Security status of -2.0 or below means you'll be attacked in █ 1.0 systems.
• Security status of -2.5 or below means you'll be attacked in █ 0.9 systems.
• Security status of -3.0 or below means you'll be attacked in █ 0.8 systems.
• Security status of -3.5 or below means you'll be attacked in █ 0.7 systems.
• Security status of -4.0 or below means you'll be attacked in █ 0.6 systems.
• Security status of -4.5 or below means you'll be attacked in █ 0.5 systems.

You'll have a few seconds before they arrive and while the faction police is formidable, they are not as strong as CONCORD and can sometimes be handled and often avoided if you're flying a reasonably agile ship. Players with negative ratings can fly through all systems in a capsule, as NPCs will not attack pods, but if you're an outlaw, anyone can target and destroy your pod without repercussion.

In CONCORD-claimed systems (like the majority of the Sanctum constellation in the Genesis region) the faction police will show up wearing CONCORD colour, but they are not overpowered like the regular CONCORD police is. The CONCORD faction police are no stronger than any other faction police and can be dealt with just as you would any of the others.

Changing security status

Losing security status

There are several ways to lose your security status, all concerning unprovoked actions in low and high security space.

• Aggressing a capsuleer ship (small hit)

Modification: 2.5% * System security * (1 + (Target's security - Aggressor's security) / 100)

Aggressor's new security status: (1 - Modification) * (Aggressor's security + 10) - 10

• Destruction of capsuleer ship
• Aggressing a capsule

Modification: 25% * System security * (1 + (Target's security - Aggressor's security) / 100)

Aggressor's new security status: (1 - Modification) * (Aggressor's security + 10) - 10

• Destruction of a capsule (major hit)
• Aggressing an npc ship or structure

Same modification as for capsuleer ships, substituting 0 for the target's security status

As you can see above, security status penalties are directly proportional to System Security. System security is shown in game with a precision of one decimal point but the true value is much more precise. There is also a percentage modification of the penalty equal to the difference between the aggressor and target's security statuses, as much as 15% between a -10 and +5 capsuleer (in practice reduction by this is limited to 10% because -4.95 and lower capsuleers are outlaw and can be attacked without penalty). Because losses are percentage movements towards -10, this is fairly inconsequential in practice.

Remember that these actions always lead to you getting either a suspect or a criminal timer, depending on which action you chose to engage in and the security level of the system you're in. Not all suspect or criminal offences will result in a security status hit however. Stealing from a can will flag you as a suspect, but you won't lose any security status. Criminal acts in low security space doesn't incur the wrath of CONCORD unless you decide to jump into high security space before your criminal timer runs out.

Raising security status

Main article: Repairing security status

There are numerous activities that raise your security standing.

• Running missions against pirate factions (you gain security status from the high bounty rats).
• Killing high bounty belt rats, a.k.a. belt ratting, in low and null security space (the larger the rat, the higher the increase).
• Running Incursions.
• Turning in security tags to CONCORD in low security space.

Sentry guns

Whenever you lose security status through suspect or criminal offences in low or high security space, any sentry gun on grid will engage you. The sentry guns will continue engaging you for as long as you remain on grid.

No aggression is carried over after leaving the grid where you performed your initial act, so even though you're still a suspect or a criminal there's no further aggression from those or other sentry guns once you warp offgrid. Just remember that a new act of aggression that causes you to lose more of your security status, such as continuing to pod someone in low security space after initial aggression, would trigger another response from present sentry guns. But they too can easily be reset by bouncing to an offgrid tactical and back.

Sentry Gun	Offensive data
	Damage 440 hp 80 140 80 140    176 dps (2,5 second cycle)    500km optimal + 50km falloff    0,4 tracking speed
Amarr Sentry Caldari Sentry Gallente Sentry Minmatar Sentry (identical stats)

All sentry guns are invulnerable and you can't even lock them up, "Target is invulnerable".