Repairing security status

Although the majority of security status losses occur due to hostile acts, such as piracy or griefing, you can sometimes lose a few points from accidental activities. Repairing this security status loss can be a tedious process but with a few alterations to your method the time taken can be shortened.

Security status gains are achieved by killing NPC’s from the various pirate corporations (Guristas, Sanshas, Serpentis, Angel Cartel, etc). Note that Faction rats such as Amarr or Gallente will only give faction standing changes, not security status.

Security gain mechanics

A security status gain occurs for the HIGHEST value outlaw NPC you kill within a 15 minute time period PER SYSTEM.

Each rat is worth a certain security percentage. There doesn’t seem to be any hard data as to what each rat is worth, but the harder the rat is to kill, the higher it is.

To find out the actual security gain for each rat, times the difference between your security status and 10.0 by the security percentage of the rat.

So, for example, if your security status was -0.5 and the security percentage value of the rat you killed was 0.2%, then the calculation would be:

Security gain = 10.5 x (0.2/100)

              = 0.021

Note also that you can maximize your security standing increases by training the Fast Talk skill - each level trained provides a 5% bonus to effective security rating increases.

The quick method

While all NPC rats from missions, deadspace complexes and belts will give you a security status gain, to gain security status quickly we take advantage of the gain timer being system based. Find yourself a nice chain of systems to rat in – 10 systems long should be enough. Find a rat in the first system and kill it. Jump to the next system. Find a rat in the new system. Kill the rat and jump to the next system. Keep doing this until you are back in your original system. If you time it right, you should only get back to this system after the original 15 minute timer is up. Keep it up until you get the security status gain you want or you get bored and go do other things.

Which systems should I do it in?

As stated above, the harder the rats are to kill, the more security status gain they are worth. Systems that have a lower security rating have harder to kill rats and thus are worth more personal security status gain. The most common guidelines suggest killing BS rats in 0.0 space, but obviously you should take all normal precautions for travelling in lowsec or nullsec space. Killing ratting ships is a speciality of many lowsec PC pirate corporations, so beware. For small security status repairs low end highsec such as 0.5 systems yield valuable enough rats over time.

The mission method

Find any questing hub area with 3-5 level 3 or level 4 security missions nearby. Only accept missions that have non empire faction targets as empire targets don't give you a security gain.

1. Run a mission until you kill a reasonably high level rat.
2. Note what time you killed you the high value rat and what system you killed it in.
3. Warp off with the mission unfinished to a different system and pick up a new mission
4. Run the mission in the manner of the first mission. Decline or delay any missions that take you to a system that you've killed a high value rat in the last 10-12 minutes.
5. Continue in this method until the first mission's rat security gain takes effect(15 mins) and then return to the first mission and continue this process.
6. Repeat the same for each of the missions you currently have in progress.

This method is probably slower than general ratting but it's a lot more fun. It also has the side benefit of earning LP and corp rep.

Example:

1. Republican fleet level 3 security mission in system A.
2. Kill battle cruiser level rat in the first pocket.
3. Warp off to second republican fleet security mission hub and pick up a new mission.
4. Run mission in system B until you kill a battle cruiser rat.
5. Warp off to third republican fleet security mission hub and pick up a new mission.
6. Run mission in system C until you kill a battle cruiser rat.
7. 15 minutes after you killed a battle cruiser in A, return to system A and continue with the first mission until you kill a battle cruiser level rat.
8. Repeat

Note: Remember to decline or delay any missions sending you back to a system that you have a security status gain timer going on. Also skip any empire faction missions.