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There are skills that increases the loyalty point gain from [[missions]], such as {{sk|Distribution Connections}} (distribution missions), {{sk|Mining Connections}} (mining missions) and {{sk|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|factional warfare]], you gain a considerably larger portion of LP/hour doing the larger [[Incursion sites#Headquarter sites|headquarter sites]] and the faction tier heavily influences the [[Factional_Warfare#Rewards|reward]] for factional warfare activities. | There are skills that increases the loyalty point gain from [[missions]], such as {{sk|Distribution Connections}} (distribution missions), {{sk|Mining Connections}} (mining missions) and {{sk|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|factional warfare]], you gain a considerably larger portion of LP/hour doing the larger [[Incursion sites#Headquarter sites|headquarter sites]] and the faction tier heavily influences the [[Factional_Warfare#Rewards|reward]] for factional warfare activities. | ||
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| + | 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 additional ISK. | ||
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| + | 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). | ||
==== Converting CONCORD loyalty points ==== | ==== Converting CONCORD loyalty points ==== | ||
Revision as of 13:25, 26 February 2015
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.
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 additional 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).
Converting CONCORD loyalty points
If you have CONCORD loyalty points you can also convert CONCORD loyalty points to another corporation's loyalty points. 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.
Selling CONCORD loyalty points
Besides converting CONCORD LP there is also a market for it with people offering isks for LP. Most trading is done via either the 'Concord LP' mailing list where sellers and buyers meet or the Public Trading Channel Forum. At time of writing this current price is 1100 - 1200 isk per one CONCORD LP.
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.
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.
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 [1] | Special items not available in other loyalty point stores [2] |
|---|---|
 Amarr
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Imperial Navy ships & items, Imperial Navy Warfare Mindlink (armour/information),  Grail set (radar sensor strength).[3]
|
 Caldari
|
Caldari Navy ships & items, Caldari Navy Warfare Mindlink (shield/information), Talon set (gravimetric sensor strength).[3]
|
 Gallente
|
Federation Navy ships & items, Federation Navy Warfare Mindlink (armour/skirmish), Spur set (magnetometric sensor strength).[3]
|
 Minmatar
|
Republic Fleet ships & items, Republic Fleet Warfare Mindlink (shield/skirmish), Jackal set (ladar sensor strength).[3]
|
 CONCORD
|
Meta level Capital module blueprints, 2/4/6% Hardwiring implants, Warfare Mindlink (T2). |
 Sisters of EVE
|
Astero, Stratios and Nestor (or blueprint copies), Sisters probes & modules, Virtue set (probe strength). |
 O.R.E.
|
ORE modules, 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). |
- ^ Some items will be available in pretty much all stations for said faction, while others may require a specific corporation within that faction.
- ^ Some of these items can appear as rare drops, so getting the item from the loyalty point store is not necessarily the only way to get these items.
- ^ a b c d These implant sets are exclusive to each respective factional warfare corporation, 24th Imperial Crusade (Amarr), State Protectorate (Caldari), Federation Defence Union (Gallente) and Tribal Liberation Force (Minmatar).
