And its great that CCP does not agree with you (I hope they will not in future either). And if "this grinding is insane" for you, most probably you can do other things, that are not / do not seem insane for you. Well... ruining your standing was the greatest insanity to start off and if you ruined it, most probably it happened because you thought: "reading guides and gathering information is for sassies and it's insane waste of time - there should be easier way to do that" so you went straight for shooting and blowing things. You had other options and made your choice .

The main thing which makes this game really good is that you have free choice and the choices you make bring you consequences.

DMC if your goal were to bring an empire faction straight from 0.0 to 5.0 as quick (fewest gameplay hours) as possible, what would the method be?

I'm thinking its buy all the affordable data center tags for the faction of interest, and its main ally, and turn those in. Then buy the lv 2 cosmos items for both factions on contract and turn those in as well. I think in this case the circle agents and 'starter' agents would generally be a waste of time. I wonder if that would be enough, assuming you had the relevant social skills trained to V.

How to fix Concord standings?

Well, that's pretty close.

When your standings are neutral or a little bit negative, the amount of standing gained from completing the low level Event Agents (Career, Circle, Data 'Cert' Agents) actually equals out to be quite large.

The path I'd take to quickly gain a significant amount of positive standing would be to first complete the 3 level 1 Data 'Cert' Agents along with the Storyline Agent mission (Name on the 'Cert'). Next step would be to complete the rest of the Data Center Agents.

Of course those steps should be done for the Allied Faction as well.

For example :

Work the 3 level 1 Data 'Cert' Agents for Minmatar along with the 3 level 1 Data 'Cert' Agents for Gallente. Then after completing those Agents, work the Storyline Agent mission (Name on the 'Cert') for both Factions, then complete the rest of the Data Center Agents for both Factions.


DMC

I didn't do the math on this one, but I think you would be better off doing faction ally first and getting your main factions standings in the process, then after ally is done, then swap to main faction agents. I've noticed that when ever I did fast raising like this if I picked Amarr empire and did their agents first, then Caldari agents, I would end up with more Caldari standings in the end.

Please note: In the Standing Relationships graph that's linked above, the 'In-Game Inter-Faction Relationships' graph is read from the top down and the 'Derived Inter-Faction Standing Modifier' graph is read from left to right.

Maybe CCP has run out of glue.

It took a while, but a new shipment has just arrived!

In other words, thread stickied.

Hey,

Thanks for the reply. It's low broker fee's that I need. I was thinking about refining at a later date though.

thanks for the confirmaiton on the missions.

I guess the same would apply to any mission.... ie. Once the Trader can take L4's then Barrak here can complete them. Though.... that is a tough grind to 8.00!

What impact do standings have on trading?

The Market Order Broker Fees paid on placing a standing Market order are influenced by a pilot's standings (unadjusted by skills) to the corporation that owns station at which he or she is setting an order, and the faction of that corporation. Sales Taxes are not influenced by standings, nor are Contract Broker Fees.

See also a chart illustrating the effect of positive standings on Market Order Broker Fees.

A stealth patch in early 2010 changed the relationship between Market Order Broker Fees and standings; the formula is now: BrokerFee % = (1.000 % GÇô 0.050 % +ù BrokerRelationsSkillLevel) / 2 ^ (0.1400 +ù FactionStanding + 0.06000 +ù CorporationStanding), where FactionStanding and CorporationStanding are each in the range GÇô10.00 to 10.00. Note that faction standings have more than two times the impact of corporation standings.

The minimum broker fee rate payable with Broker Relations at Level V and maximum standings is 0.1875%; the maximum, with no skills and horrible negative standings it's 4.000%.

Standings do not influence the price demanded by NPC corporations for their items (BPOs, skill books, &c.).

I think you're asking about getting a Storyline mission offer. If so then the answer is yes. All types of missions, regardless if from regular Agents or Event Agents, are added to the 16 mission completion count.


DMC

Please note: In the Standing Relationships link, the 'In-Game Inter-Faction Relationships' graph is read from the top down and the 'Derived Inter-Faction Standing Modifier' graph is read from left to right.

Hello and thanks for posting.

As for your question - Yes you could do that and like you said, slowly bring them all up equally. The key word here is 'Slowly'.


DMC