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Note: this is a draft copy of Factional Warfare Standings

Factional Warfare Standings

The Amarr and the Caldari fight against the Minmatar and the Gallente.

Some pilots may be concerned that joining Factional Warfare will result in irreparable damage to some of their faction standings, either excluding them from half of Empire space for the rest of their EVE career, or forcing them to grind their standings back up. This page aims to clarify how your standings are affected by participating in Factional Warfare.

Actions that affect standings

Participating in Factional Warfare can impact your standings with the four NPC militia corporations (24th Imperial Crusade, State Protectorate, Federal Defence Union, and Tribal Liberation Force) as well as the four NPC empire factions (Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, and Minmatar). Your standings with your NPC militia corporation change irrespective of whether you enlisted in Factional Warfare as a solo player or as part of a corporation.

Note that even though you are at war with two of the four empire factions, your standings with them don't actually drop merely by joining Factional Warfare; they only drop through actions you might perform (see table). Since all the standings-affecting mechanics are purely optional (e.g. you are not forced to capture complexes just because you have enlisted in Factional Warfare), you can control how much you want to affect your faction standings.

	Friendly		Allied		Enemy		Allies of enemy
	Militia corporation	Faction	Militia corporation	Faction	Militia corporation	Faction	Militia corporation	Faction
Killing enemy militia (in NPC corp) (3)						/
Killing enemy militia (in player corp)					/	/
Killing allied militia	/	/
Killing friendly militia
Killing faction NPC (complex) (4)	/	/		/		/		/
Killing faction NPC (mission)						(2)		(2)
Capturing complex		/		/		/		/
Destroying i-Hub
Completing mission		/		/		/		/
Declining/failing mission				(1)
Being promoted	/			(1)		(1)		(1)
(1) These standings changes are smaller, as they are only caused by the inter-faction relationships. (2) Depending on the mission; not every NPC kill decreases your faction standings. (3) Killing an enemy player who is a member of the NPC militia corporation (i.e. who joined Factional Warfare as a solo player, and not as part of a corporation). (4) Killing the NPCs defending complexes ("plexes").

Promotions

When your standings with your NPC militia corporation reach an integer number (i.e. 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 etc), you receive a "promotion", which is reflected in a higher "rank" (visible on your character sheet). The first time you reach a new rank, you also receive a one-off bonus to your standings with your faction (and a corresponding drop in your standings with the enemy factions).

Joining Factional Warfare

Keep in mind that, in order to join Factional Warfare, you need a faction standing of 0.0 or higher (without taking social skills into account). If your standing is too low, you can run missions for a corporation belonging to that faction (the storyline mission you get after running 16 regular missions raises your faction standing), or run the one-off COSMOS and Data Center missions.