No.
You will get a standing hit every time you let an offer expire.

"Declining a second" has nothing to do with it.


Do not let offers expire.

In particular do not let storyline missions expire.

they got rid of that mechanic years ago. I've let probably a dozen or so storyline missions (and far more regular missions) expire with no standings hit. I play for a while then get busy and don't log in for a week. just check out my inbox: http://i.imgur.com/RF5X4CB.png

however if you accept the mission and let it expire, well then you get a standings hit. I think it is just as bad as if you fail the mission.

Confirming that this is wrong, wrong, wrong. Always has been. Please check this and don't spread the misunderstanding any further. Standings are complicated enough as is.

Do you mean that you get no standing hits, or negative standing attribution if you let a mission offer expire?

Until I see a Dev state otherwise, that doesn't prove anything, especially since everyone in that thread is concentrating on Corp / Faction standing. There's more than just Corp and Faction standing in this game, there's also Agent standing.

I've been playing this game for over 6 years and have never seen a Dev blog say regular mission offers that expire will not incur any standing hits. I remember when CCP changed Storyline offers to that mechanic which was quite a while ago, probably about 5 yrs.

When you let a mission offer expire, you lose Agent standing.

If you decline more than 1 mission offer from the same Agent within a 4 hr time period you lose Agent and Corp standing.

If you fail an accepted mission you lose Agent, Corp and Faction standing.

In fact, if you let a Cosmos mission offer expire you not only lose Agent, Corp and Faction standing, you also get locked out of accessing that Agent and possibly even other Agents that are included in the chain.

So yeah, please link the proof or better yet, just have a GM / Dev post and confirm it's true and I will gladly say I was wrong and you're right.