The Ploy: Gallente Path

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The Ploy: Gallente Path is a guide to completing The Ploy for those who have high Gallente Federation Faction Standing.

You can follow the Gallente Path only if you have enough Unmodified Standing:

Required Standing	Connections IV	Connections V
Gallente	3.74	3.17
Caldari	1.55	0.93
Minmatar	3.60	3.03
Amarr	1.09	0.46

EVE Online displays only Effective Faction Standings. To help you calculate the Unmodified Faction Standings use Chris Halsky's Sheet to calculate the required Standings from Effective Faction Standings.

Step 7: Deviating from the Path

• Skip Step 3: Career agents - you can skip ?some? Career Agent Missions if you have ?high enough? Faction Standings

• Skip Step 5: Re-balance Standings - If your starting standings are higher, or other means of standings gain are available

You can skip some Storyline missions and replace them with Career agents, COSMOS or Datacenters - again, important thing is to achieve desired results. The best way is to check Google Spreadsheet, as it's required to simulate whole process.

Step 3: Career Agents

Complete any two out of three Career Agent Mission chains for each Empire in the following order:

1. Caldari
2. Amarr
3. Caldari
4. Amarr
5. Gallente
6. Minmatar
7. Gallente
8. Minmatar

Do this to keep both Caldari and Amarr Faction Standing high while at the same time reaching 5.0 Faction Standing with both Gallente and Minmatar so you can start their Epic Arcs.

Step 4: First Epic Arcs

With  Connections V and 3.81 Unmodified Standings or  Connections V and 4.10 Unmodified Standings you are able to start Gallente and Minmatar Epic Arcs. Run them both, while avoiding faction standing losses (Minmatar has unavoidable standing loss of 0.004 with Amarr, it's included in Ploy calculations). This will push Gallente and Minmatar to 4.75 - which allows us to lower them in next step, while gaining standings for Caldari and Amarr.

Step 5: Re-balance Standings

This is the tedious step. Right now storyline missions give very small net standings gains, they only shift them around. What you need to achieve are (minimum) the following standings:

Gallente - 3.81
Minmatar - 3.81
Caldari - 3.00
Amarr - 2.30

To get to that point, you need to run 7 Storyline missions with 1% reward - faster storylines to farm come from L2 Distro missions. Simply run L2 distro missions for Major and Minor enemy factions, either swapping them every couple of missions, or start with Major enemy and run it until Chosen faction drops to 3.96. If you choose corps required for Step 6 - it will shorten whole process
Another option are L3 Security missions - there is one missions chain ([New Frontiers]) and one Storyline mission chain ([Kidnappers Strike]) with very good standings rewards.

With this step Gallente and Minmatar are complete - you should have effective standings for both above 5.0.

Step 6: Final Epic Arcs

To Close the gap for two remaining factions, you need:

• Caldari- run faction Epic Arc
• Amarr - run faction Epic Arc, then SoE Epic Arc - the order is important if you started with minimum standings!