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Portia Calderi
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.02.20 16:00:00 -
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I'm interested in raising my standings with the Amarr Empire as quickly as possible. What is the best corporation to run missions for, beside the Data Center agents?
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Ki Tarra
Caldari Ki Tech Industries
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Posted - 2009.02.20 16:24:00 -
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Any Amarr corp for which you can get missions.
You need storyline missions: so pick the type of regular (courier/kill/mining) mission that you can complete the fastest so that you get storyline missions as often as possible.
Also the higher the level of mission the bigger the standings increase.
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Irdia Freelancer
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Posted - 2009.02.20 20:16:00 -
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Social skill raises standings (including factional standings) increase 5%/lvl and is well worth training.
If looking just at best standings returns then the best agent is the highest level and ignore the quality (have only done to level 4 myself.) Some people say run the lower level agent at higher quality - I say run the best level as quality doesn't change how many missions between storylines, and higher level storylines have better factional standing increases.
Missions of the highest level that can be done quickly are the best source of standings. Eg Research agents are effective at raising your factional standings. They give no isk/lp or factional standing by themselves yet can be completed in like 2 minutes so are the best factional reward in getting you towards that next storyline faster. If you have to fly 15 jumps to get to the agent then its too much effort so if careful can find a good level 4 agent with research agents next to it. Research agents can give a mission about every 16 hours so for most playerrs this will be once a day. Not all corps have research agents - look around. Courier missions are generally also done very quickly taking an ave of about 5 min once you have an industrial (Amarr industrial the best starter, lvl 1 amarr industrial with expanders and no rig is over 13,000 cargo space in a bestower).
After those come all the encounter missions the block-heads reject as they consider them a low isk return. Even a new player (in a T1 battleship) can quickly start earning 25+ mil (starter, it gets better) an hour missioning while at the same time getting regular lvl 4 storylines for faster factional standings gain. Some block-heads consider only doing a select few level 4 encounter missions as they can't see the 'total picture' being net isk return. Can cash lp in for over 3000 isk/lp if you look and spend a tiny amount of effort while block-heads will cash their lp in for a tiny fraction of this. Other Block-heads consider only the bounties of ships, ignoring loot, salvage. This makes many a mission a poor return to a block-head while others still find those same unprofitable missions very profitable. Even lvl 4 courier missions in high-sec can exceed 25 mil/hour returns and can be done by any player with an industrial! Many a block-head would consider over 25 mil an hour a good return but they reject such missions as they are 'unprofitable'. Is all wrecks worth looting and salvaging? No, but it comes down to the player to find the balance for themselves.
Data centres missions (do like 5 missions to get factional standing increase) while giving factional standings, they are slow in that if you have nice 'campers' you might have to wait a while or hope can buy stuff in contract. The cosmos guides etc lists an order and you will find the required factional standings in even the early agents can jump to like 5.0 requirement - quick a lot so can't do till already have good factional standings. Turn in tags, generally a large amount of tag purchasing required.
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g0ggalor
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Posted - 2009.02.20 21:20:00 -
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iirc, the faction standing doesn't increase until after the next downtime. So don't get discurated if you are grinding missions like crazy and you don't see a budge in the standings.
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