Skills:Social

Overview

Social skills provide modifications to your standings or rewards from NPC corporations. They are of most value to mission runners but are also of use to those seeking access to specific services from NPC controlled corporations and factions. (Jump clone services, lower costs for reprocessing/refining, POS anchoring...)

As you do missions for NPC corporations, your standings with them will go up. As you do storyline missions your faction standings will change for the faction a particular NPC corporation is part of.

Faction standing changes have both positive and negative effects so raising your standings with a faction will also effect your standings with those friendly to that faction as well as those hostile to it. Example: Raising your faction standings with Gallente Federation will also raise it slightly with Minmitar while lowering it slightly with Caldari and Amarr. The reverse also being true - raise Amarr, lose some Gallente faction standings.

These changes are where some of the social skill effects come into play. Others are specific to mission runners.

The social skills effect 3 different areas of your interactions with NPC corporations:

• Standings Modifiers (all modifiers are per level trained)
  • Social - 5% improved standings gains for all missions with NPC corporations.
  • Diplomacy - 4% effective standings increase with NPC corporations you have negative standings with.
  • Connections - 4% effective standings increase for NPC corporations that CONCORD likes and that you have positive standings with.
  • Criminal Connections - 4% effective standings increase for NPC corporations that CONCORD does not like and that you have positive standings with. (NPC pirate organizations)
  • Fast Talk - 5% bonus to effective security rating increases. (CONCORD sec status)

• ISK Reward Improving
  • Negotiation - 5% improved ISK payout from agents (per level trained) by raising their effective quality.
  • DED Connections currently does not exist in the game.

• Loyalty Point Reward Improving
  Loyalty Point (LP) reward improvements are broken down by corporate divisions. All are 5% gains, per level trained, in LP rewards while working for an agent from specific divisions.
  Each applies to 6 corporate divisions. Two of these skills apply per corporate division - meaning you can gain up to 50% more LP per mission by training both to level 5.
  • Bureaucratic Connections
  • Financial Connections
  • High Tech Connections
  • Labor Connections
  • Military Connections
  • Political Connections
  • Trade Connections

For a list of agent mission types and which skill effects them, please see: Agent mission types

Bureaucratic Connections

Improves loyalty point gain by 5% per level when working for agents in the following corporation divisions:

• Administration
• Archives
• Financial
• Internal Security
• Personnel
• Storage

Attributes:
Multiplier:	Bureaucratic Connections
Price:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="The skillbook for this skill costs Bureaucratic Connections ISK">Bureaucratic Connections ISK
Alpha max level:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="Alpha pilot can train and use this skill to at most level Unknown">Unknown
Prerequisites:	Corporation Management III, Social III
Notes:	*Bureaucratic Connections is purchased with Loyalty Points (LP) from NPC stores, so the price may vary wildly.

Connections

Skill at interacting with friendly NPCs. 4% Modifier to effective standing from friendly NPC Corporations and Factions per level. Not cumulative with Diplomacy or Criminal Connections.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	3x
Price:	200k ISK
Alpha max level:	II
Prerequisites:	Social III
Notes:

Criminal Connections

Skill at interacting with criminal NPCs. 4% Modifier per level to effective standing towards NPCs with low Concord standing. Not cumulative with Diplomacy or Connections.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	3x
Price:	200k ISK
Alpha max level:	II
Prerequisites:	Social III
Notes:	Namely Pirate factions: Angel Cartel Guristas Pirates Sansha's Nation Serpentis The Blood Raider Covenant

Diplomacy

Skill at interacting with hostile Agents. 4% Modifier per level to effective standing towards hostile Agents. Not cumulative with Connections or Criminal Connections.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	1x
Price:	200k ISK
Alpha max level:	III
Prerequisites:	Social II
Notes:

Fast Talk

Skill at interacting with Concord. 5% Bonus to effective security rating increase.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	4x
Price:	100k ISK
Alpha max level:	Alpha pilot can not train this skill.
Prerequisites:	Social IV
Notes:

Financial Connections

Understanding of Corporate Finances.

Improves loyalty point gain by 5% per level when working for agents in the following corporation divisions:

• Accounting
• Distribution
• Financial
• Legal
• Marketing
• Public Relations

Attributes:
Multiplier:	Financial Connections
Price:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="The skillbook for this skill costs Financial Connections ISK">Financial Connections ISK
Alpha max level:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="Alpha pilot can train and use this skill to at most level Unknown">Unknown
Prerequisites:	Negotiation III, Social III
Notes:	*Financial Connections is purchased with Loyalty Points (LP) from NPC stores, so the price may vary wildly.

High Tech Connections

Understanding of high-tech corporate culture.

Improves loyalty point gain by 5% per level when working for agents in the following corporation divisions:

• Archives
• Advisory
• Intelligence
• Manufacturing
• Surveillance

Attributes:
Multiplier:	High Tech Connections
Price:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="The skillbook for this skill costs High Tech Connections ISK">High Tech Connections ISK
Alpha max level:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="Alpha pilot can train and use this skill to at most level Unknown">Unknown
Prerequisites:	Science, Social III
Notes:	*High Tech Connections is purchased with Loyalty Points (LP) from NPC stores, so the price may vary wildly.

Labor Connections

Understanding of corporate culture on the industrial level and the plight of the worker.

Improves loyalty point gain by 5% per level when working for agents in the following corporation divisions:

• Astrosurveying
• Manufacturing
• Mining
• Personnel
• Production

Attributes:
Multiplier:	Labor Connections
Price:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="The skillbook for this skill costs Labor Connections ISK">Labor Connections ISK
Alpha max level:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="Alpha pilot can train and use this skill to at most level Unknown">Unknown
Prerequisites:	Industry III, Social III
Notes:	*Labor Connections is purchased with Loyalty Points (LP) from NPC stores, so the price may vary wildly.

Military Connections

Understanding of military culture.

Improves loyalty point gain by 5% per level when working for agents in the following corporation divisions:

• Astrosurveying
• Command
• Intelligence
• Internal Security
• Security
• Surveillance

Attributes:
Multiplier:	Military Connections
Price:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="The skillbook for this skill costs Military Connections ISK">Military Connections ISK
Alpha max level:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="Alpha pilot can train and use this skill to at most level Unknown">Unknown
Prerequisites:	Leadership III, Social III
Notes:	*Military Connections is purchased with Loyalty Points (LP) from NPC stores, so the price may vary wildly.

Negotiation

Skill at agent negotiation. Improves agent effective quality. 5% additional pay per skill level for agent missions.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	2x
Price:	60k ISK
Alpha max level:	II
Prerequisites:	Social I
Notes:

Political Connections

Understanding of political concepts and stratagems.

Improves loyalty point gain by 5% per level when working for agents in the following corporation divisions:

• Administration
• Advisory
• Command
• Legal
• Public Relations
• Security

Attributes:
Multiplier:	Political Connections
Price:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="The skillbook for this skill costs Political Connections ISK">Political Connections ISK
Alpha max level:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="Alpha pilot can train and use this skill to at most level Unknown">Unknown
Prerequisites:	Diplomacy III, Social III
Notes:	*Political Connections is purchased with Loyalty Points (LP) from NPC stores, so the price may vary wildly.

Social

Skill at social interaction. 5% bonus per level to NPC agent, corporation and faction standing increase.

Attributes:
Multiplier:	1x
Price:	30k ISK
Alpha max level:	III
Prerequisites:	none
Notes:

Trade Connections

Understanding of the way trade is conducted at the corporate level.

Improves loyalty point gain by 5% per level when working for agents in the following corporation divisions:

• Accounting
• Distribution
• Marketing
• Mining
• Production
• Storage

Attributes:
Multiplier:	Trade Connections
Price:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="The skillbook for this skill costs Trade Connections ISK">Trade Connections ISK
Alpha max level:	<span style="cursor: help;" title="Alpha pilot can train and use this skill to at most level Unknown">Unknown
Prerequisites:	Trade III, Social III
Notes:	*Trade Connections is purchased with Loyalty Points (LP) from NPC stores, so the price may vary wildly.