A.) even if you just do distribution missions and kill no one as your caldari goes up your amarr will also go up and you gal and minm will go down

B.) This is a core part of the game you make a choice and live with the consequences

A thing regarding A) that I would like to point out is that unless you are killing a faction's ships, your standings towards any particular empire will not go below -5 and thus you will not reach "kill on sight" standings.

I have not yet seen my standings go down for the opposing factions due to my main faction standings go up. I'm talking regular L4 combat missions here. I always declined any mission that goes against any other empire since I realized that my gallente standings got so bad I couldn't fly thru their space. All I'm asking for here is a separation between agents who give regular missions vs NPC factions and agents who give missions against the 4 main dominant factions. It's not too much to ask..

A thing regarding A) that I would like to point out is that unless you are killing a faction's ships, your standings towards any particular empire will not go below -5 and thus you will not reach "kill on sight" standings.

my standings went to -7.98 with gallente for running caldari missions throughout my career :(

my diplomacy is trained to 4. Look this is a simple matter that should meet little to no resistance. The point is, having to decline missions simply because they are against a majour faction really sucks. That 4 hour cooldown timer makes me stop playing the game. Does that sound reasonable to you? This is an issue and it needs to be addressed. Not everyone plays in faction warefare. Not everyone plays in lowsec. Laugh and scoff all you want but I play the game mainly in empire and I'm sick of my standings going up and down they way they do.

Also, if I am not mistaken, Sisters of Eve is to fix your concord status, not your faction standings. I have done everything I can possibly do and now I'm stuck running hundreds of L1 missions to get the menial storyline missions that increase my standings by .04 each time. It's a brutal grind to fix standings. If you guys really LOVE the system the way it is then cudo's to you. At the very *very* minimum CCP should at least allow the selling of tags to L2 data center agents at a standing of below +1. Those agents should be available to anyone with a status of -5 or better. If I can't fix my standings any other way than grinding the hell outta L1 agents then there should at least be a way for me to buy my way up to better standings. Also realize these agents can only be used once in a lifetime.

But the ideal fix would be to fix the way empire missions are granted to begin with. My idea of moving factional missions over to agents that are specific to faction warefare should be looked at. If you are in to faction warefare then great. This system I'm trying to get across here would be better for everyone. Less frequent mission declines for the carebears, the guys in FW win, and the data center agents are used for their correct purpose. To increase the hell out of already positive standings.

Faction Standing Repair Plan

However, the ability to decline faction missions without an agent standing loss would be nice. You can get a few of these buggers in a row.

Your last post reminds me of a line from an old country song "if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all."
If your run of luck is that bad with mission agents perhaps it is time to find something else to do when you cannot PvP.

Agents from the same NPC tend to give missions from the same sub-set of the available pool, they also tend to fall into about the same frequency of giving out faction mission. Get a faction mission do not just move to another agent move to another NPC, and it is even better if you change to one that is not affiliated with the same faction. You claim to have been in this game since 2006 and yet you have not figured out one of the most basic aspects of running missions.

If you care about standings you should be rotating between factions anyway since doing so tends to keep you standings balanced. Any negative you take here balances out when you run them over there.

So welcome to the missions club, all of us face the same issues. We have figured out how to make it all work out for us, perhaps you are not really of the mind set to be a missions pilot.

Even though we all face the same issues we still say no to separating the faction missions out of the normal pool, having to deal with them is just one of the "risks" or hassles if you prefer of running missions.

Because having to leave my mission hub where I have all my fittings and ships to go 30 jumps to the next agent is extremely time consuming and not profitable. I get you guys feel like you are beating your heads against a wall here. But I am not standing down from my suggestions. CCP needs to look at changing the system in some way. I keep saying it. Deliver faction missions through agents that only give those missions. Eliminate the 4 hour cooldown time. Do *something* to change the system. At the end of the day running all around the galaxy to pull missions from one agent to the next because they are giving me faction based missions is incredibly time consuming and IMO not really an option. Instead of saying "you are right, I give up" I would like a CCP dev to read this post and at least consider changing it. Imagine if they did change it. in the short run it might hurt FW gankers. But in the long run it might actually be better for FW. They could create a whole system to support it. Even introduce a "faction warefare" starter agent. Give ppl the option to PVP the carebear way. Why is it so f*ing difficult for you ppl to get this. Yeah I hear what you are saying. Go from agent to agent. I've done that. It sucks. IT'S NOT AN OPTION. PPL leave the game for various reasons. Destroying their rep with a faction is one of them. Don't you realize there are ppl who play this game for the PVE content and have NO INTEREST in PVP? This suggested change would help the game immensely IMO. It would keep ppl from turning the game off. Every time I get another faction mission within my cooldown I come back to this thread.. angry.. ready to shut the game off.. and then I read you ppl saying how dumb I am for not spending hours flying around looking for the next agent. Instead of supporting the idea that hey.. maybe it could be different? I am not throwing this suggestion out to the community to scrutinize. I want the DEVS to see it and maybe act on it. If you hate the idea so much.. then maybe start your own thread.