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Faction standing is the strongest NPC standing. Faction standing gives acces to all agents from all corporations belonging to that factions. This includes normal agents, COSMOS agents and epic arc agents (L3 for pirate epic arcs, L4 for empire epic arcs). Unmodified faction standing of 0.0 or higher is also requirement for joining the faction warfare.

~~With~~ corporation standings ~~it effects~~ the broker fees when trading in stations belonging to that faction

Most agents will accept either faction, corp, or personal standings to fulfill their requirement. That means, even if you have no corp standing with Caldari Navy, if you have faction standing with the Caldari State then you will be able to access agents using that faction standing. The exception to this is R&D agents: if you attempt to use your faction standing to access an R&D agent, you must also have the appropriate corp standing up to the agent's requirement -2. If a Kaalakiota agent requires 5 standing and you have 6 standing with Caldari State and 2.5 standing with Kaalakiota, you will not be able to use that agent.

The faction standings with corporation standings define the broker fees when trading in stations belonging to that faction.

:''BrokerFee % = 3%-(0.1%*BrokerRelationsLevel)-(0.03%*FactionStanding)-(0.02%*CorpStanding)''

Low enough faction standing will cause navy vessels to chase you down in high security space that belongs to that faction. As long as you pay attention you can travel through their space as they will not point your ship but just attack and web.

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| 8.5 modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction frigate BPC via a COSMOS agent.

| 8.5 modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction frigate BPC via a COSMOS agent. Corporation standings work too.

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| 9.2 modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction cruiser BPC via a COSMOS agent.

| 9.2 modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction cruiser BPC via a COSMOS agent. Corporation standings work too.

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| 9.9 modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction battleship BPC via a COSMOS agent.

| 9.9 modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction battleship BPC via a COSMOS agent. Corporation standings work too.

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==Corporation standings==

Corporation standing does not effect as many systems as faction standings. Corporation standing is most commonly used to get access to higher level mission agents and to lower broker fees with faction standings.

Corporation standing does not effect as many systems as faction standings. Corporation standing is most commonly used to get access to higher level mission agents and to lower broker fees with faction standings but corporation standings also affects broker fees as explained in faction standings section and refining in NPC station.

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| 8.5 modified || The corporation will offer you a faction frigate BPC via a COSMOS agent. Alternative to faction standings.

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| 9.2 modified || The corporation will offer you a faction cruiser BPC via a COSMOS agent. Alternative to faction standings.

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| 9.9 modified || The corporation will offer you a faction battleship BPC via a COSMOS agent. Alternative to faction standings.

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==~~Effective~~ standings==

==Gaining and losing standings==

Corporation and agent standings increase after each completed mission. Faction standings however are gained from certain missions only:

*Doing [[Tutorial missions]] for that faction: Small increase. This falls under the category of storyline missions and may only be done once. This includes the 15 career agents per faction.

*Being promoted in Factional Warfare: Increase.

*Completing a storyline mission: Small to moderate standing increase depending on the level of the mission.

*Doing [[Datacenter missions]]: Increase, with higher level missions granting more standing. These missions require turning in pirate tags, and may only be done once. To access higher levels requires higher standing, L1 can be done at any time.

*Doing [[COSMOS|COSMOS missions]]: Similar increase as hard storyline mission of same level. These missions are more complex than normal and may require special attention and research. They may only be done once. To access higher levels requires higher standing, L1 can be done at any time.

*Doing [[courier circle missions]]: One increase only, the first time you do the loop.

*Doing the epic arcs: Significant standings increase without a derived decrease in opposing factions' standings. This is the only way to gain faction standings without losing standings with other entities.

Corporation and agent standings are lost only when failing a mission. Failing a mission will also incur a hit on your faction standings. You also lose faction standings when you destroy a ship belonging to that faction. This standing loss is based on the value of the destroyed ship and does not hapen on all ships.

NPC standings are modified by various [[Skills:Social|social skills]].

===Derived standings===

Every time you gain faction standings from somewhere else than epic arc mission you will also gain derived standings. You will automatically lose standings with factions that dislike the faction and gain standings with factions that like them. The gains and losses depend on the [http://www.newedenlibrary.net/eon/faction_standings.shtml relationship between the two factions] and are usually smaller than the original standing increase. This makes it very hard to gain high faction standing with more than two empire faction or both pirate and empire factions.

===Recovering low faction standings===

You may find yourself in a situation where you have ruined your standing with a faction. This may be result of taking missions against that faction or taking part in faction warfare. The first problems arise at −2.00 standings as you can not take higher than L1 missions from the faction. The more serious issue comes when you hit −5.00 faction standings as the navy of that faction will start chasing you in high security space of that faction.

Quite simply, if you are below −2.00, you have very limited options. First, train Diplomacy skill to as high as you can. This will modify your negative standings upward by a certain percent. You can do all the tutorials, datacenters, and COSMOS missions for one time boost to standings, for both that faction and ones that are friendly with it for the derived standings. Remember even if Caldari State is −3.00, if Amarr Empire is −1.00 you will still have access to all the Amarr agents and can even run L4 missions for them which will eventually get you derived standing from storyline missions. If you have no more tutorials, COSMOS, or datacenter missions available, your only recourse are L1 agents (very small faction standing increases with storylines), playing the derived standings game, doing the epic arc, or joining Faction Warfare as detailed below. It's a long road to travel.

*Once you get to −2, you can again access agents with whom you have a high corp standing. Both corp and agent personal standing can be shared in missioning fleets, so this can be the fastest way to start doing high level missions for that faction. You will never gain or lose faction standing from other people's storyline missions when in fleets.

*If you are in a corp, the corp's relationship to each faction is determined by simply averaging all the member's standings together (ignoring members who do not have standing to that faction). This means that even with low faction standing, you may be able to join a corp that qualifies for Factional Warfare, and work your way up through the ranks to recover your faction standing.

*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. It is extremely difficult to get high faction standing (e.g. 5 or 6) with two opposing factions. It is almost impossible to achieve standings that high with all the Empire factions simultaneously.

==Skills==

NPC standings are modified by various [[Skills:Social|social skills]]. This results in effective standings that are higher than the unmodified standings. Almost all standings related requirements are based on effective standings but broker fees and faction warfare are based on the unmodified standings.

Skills that modify standings:

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* {{sk|Criminal Connections}}: 4% Modifier per level to effective standing towards NPCs with low Concord standing. Not cumulative with Diplomacy or Connections.

* {{sk|Diplomacy}}: 4% Modifier per level to effective standing towards hostile Agents. Not cumulative with Connections or Criminal Connections.

There are also one skill that increases the standings gains.

* {{sk|Social}}: 5% bonus per level to NPC agent, corporation and faction standing increase.

==See also==

* [https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/203217152-Standings Support page: Standings]

* [http://www.newedenlibrary.net/eon/faction_standings.shtml Inter-Faction Standing Relationships]

[[Category:Factions]]

[[Category:Game mechanics]]

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 Faction standing is the strongest NPC standing. Faction standing gives acces to all agents from all corporations belonging to that factions. This includes normal agents, COSMOS agents and epic arc agents (L3 for pirate epic arcs, L4 for empire epic arcs). Unmodified faction standing of 0.0 or higher is also requirement for joining the faction warfare.
-With corporation standings it effects the broker fees when trading in stations belonging to that faction
+Most agents will accept either faction, corp, or personal standings to fulfill their requirement. That means, even if you have no corp standing with Caldari Navy, if you have faction standing with the Caldari State then you will be able to access agents using that faction standing. The exception to this is R&D agents: if you attempt to use your faction standing to access an R&D agent, you must also have the appropriate corp standing up to the agent's requirement -2. If a Kaalakiota agent requires 5 standing and you have 6 standing with Caldari State and 2.5 standing with Kaalakiota, you will not be able to use that agent.
+The faction standings with corporation standings define the broker fees when trading in stations belonging to that faction.
 :''BrokerFee&nbsp;% = 3%-(0.1%*BrokerRelationsLevel)-(0.03%*FactionStanding)-(0.02%*CorpStanding)''
+Low enough faction standing will cause navy vessels to chase you down in high security space that belongs to that faction. As long as you pay attention you can travel through their space as they will not point your ship but just attack and web.
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 | Tax-free refining. (Confirmed that you need corp, not faction standing for this)
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-| 8.5 <br>modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction frigate BPC via a COSMOS agent.
+| 8.5 <br>modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction frigate BPC via a COSMOS agent. Corporation standings work too.
 |-
-| 9.2 <br>modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction cruiser BPC via a COSMOS agent.
+| 9.2 <br>modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction cruiser BPC via a COSMOS agent. Corporation standings work too.
 |-
-| 9.9 <br>modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction battleship BPC via a COSMOS agent.
+| 9.9 <br>modified || The empire factions will offer you a faction battleship BPC via a COSMOS agent. Corporation standings work too.
 |}
 ==Corporation standings==
-Corporation standing does not effect as many systems as faction standings. Corporation standing is most commonly used to get access to higher level mission agents and to lower broker fees with faction standings.
+Corporation standing does not effect as many systems as faction standings. Corporation standing is most commonly used to get access to higher level mission agents and to lower broker fees with faction standings but corporation standings also affects broker fees as explained in faction standings section and refining in NPC station.
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 | 6.67 <br>modified
 | Tax-free refining. (Confirmed that you need corp, not faction standing for this)
+|-
+| 8.5 <br>modified || The corporation will offer you a faction frigate BPC via a COSMOS agent. Alternative to faction standings.
+|-
+| 9.2 <br>modified || The corporation  will offer you a faction cruiser BPC via a COSMOS agent. Alternative to faction standings.
+|-
+| 9.9 <br>modified || The corporation  will offer you a faction battleship BPC via a COSMOS agent. Alternative to faction standings.
 |}
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-==Effective standings==
+==Gaining and losing standings==
+Corporation and agent standings increase after each completed mission. Faction standings however are gained from certain missions only:
+*Doing [[Tutorial missions]] for that faction: Small increase. This falls under the category of storyline missions and may only be done once. This includes the 15 career agents per faction.
+*Being promoted in Factional Warfare: Increase.
+*Completing a storyline mission: Small to moderate standing increase depending on the level of the mission.
+*Doing [[Datacenter missions]]: Increase, with higher level missions granting more standing. These missions require turning in pirate tags, and may only be done once. To access higher levels requires higher standing, L1 can be done at any time.
+*Doing [[COSMOS|COSMOS missions]]: Similar increase as hard storyline mission of same level. These missions are more complex than normal and may require special attention and research. They may only be done once. To access higher levels requires higher standing, L1 can be done at any time.
+*Doing [[courier circle missions]]: One increase only, the first time you do the loop.
+*Doing the epic arcs: Significant standings increase without a derived decrease in opposing factions' standings. This is the only way to gain faction standings without losing standings with other entities.
+Corporation and agent standings are lost only when failing a mission. Failing a mission will also incur a hit on your faction standings. You also lose faction standings when you destroy a ship belonging to that faction. This standing loss is based on the value of the destroyed ship and does not hapen on all ships.
-NPC standings are modified by various [[Skills:Social|social skills]].
+===Derived standings===
+Every time you gain faction standings from somewhere else than epic arc mission you will also gain derived standings. You will automatically lose standings with factions that dislike the faction and gain standings with factions that like them. The gains and losses depend on the [http://www.newedenlibrary.net/eon/faction_standings.shtml relationship between the two factions] and are usually smaller than the original standing increase. This makes it very hard to gain high faction standing with more than two empire faction or both pirate and empire factions.
+===Recovering low faction standings===
+You may find yourself in a situation where you have ruined your standing with a faction. This may be result of taking missions against that faction or taking part in faction warfare. The first problems arise at &minus;2.00 standings as you can not take higher than L1 missions from the faction. The more serious issue comes when you hit &minus;5.00 faction standings as the navy of that faction will start chasing you in high security space of that faction.
+Quite simply, if you are below &minus;2.00, you have very limited options. First, train Diplomacy skill to as high as you can. This will modify your negative standings upward by a certain percent. You can do all the tutorials, datacenters, and COSMOS missions for one time boost to standings, for both that faction and ones that are friendly with it for the derived standings. Remember even if Caldari State is &minus;3.00, if Amarr Empire is &minus;1.00 you will still have access to all the Amarr agents and can even run L4 missions for them which will eventually get you derived standing from storyline missions. If you have no more tutorials, COSMOS, or datacenter missions available, your only recourse are L1 agents (very small faction standing increases with storylines), playing the derived standings game, doing the epic arc, or joining Faction Warfare as detailed below. It's a long road to travel.
+*Once you get to &minus;2, you can again access agents with whom you have a high corp standing. Both corp and agent personal standing can be shared in missioning fleets, so this can be the fastest way to start doing high level missions for that faction. You will never gain or lose faction standing from other people's storyline missions when in fleets.
+*If you are in a corp, the corp's relationship to each faction is determined by simply averaging all the member's standings together (ignoring members who do not have standing to that faction). This means that even with low faction standing, you may be able to join a corp that qualifies for Factional Warfare, and work your way up through the ranks to recover your faction standing.
+*Remember that all this work will be hurting the standings of opposing factions, to the point where they tend to balance out between &minus;1 and 1. It is extremely difficult to get high faction standing (e.g. 5 or 6) with two opposing factions. It is almost impossible to achieve standings that high with all the Empire factions simultaneously.
+==Skills==
+NPC standings are modified by various [[Skills:Social|social skills]]. This results in effective standings that are higher than the unmodified standings. Almost all standings related requirements are based on effective standings but broker fees and faction warfare are based on the unmodified standings.
 Skills that modify standings:
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 * {{sk|Criminal Connections}}: 4% Modifier per level to effective standing towards NPCs with low Concord standing. Not cumulative with Diplomacy or Connections.
 * {{sk|Diplomacy}}: 4% Modifier per level to effective standing towards hostile Agents. Not cumulative with Connections or Criminal Connections.
+There are also one skill that increases the standings gains.
+* {{sk|Social}}: 5% bonus per level to NPC agent, corporation and faction standing increase.
+==See also==
+* [https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/203217152-Standings Support page: Standings]
+* [http://www.newedenlibrary.net/eon/faction_standings.shtml Inter-Faction Standing Relationships]
+[[Category:Factions]]
+[[Category:Game mechanics]]