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Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2016.09.17 13:12:29 -
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Kzaji wrote:Thanks.
I'm pretty sure I don't want to lose standing with the empire just yet, maybe once I get the hang of things, or perhaps on another character.
There is no way to totally avoid this. You can only pick and choose your level of standing loss. There is such a thing as derived standings which means that most factions in Eve have a relationship with most other factions that is expressed in a number that is either positive or negative. If you look at the show info on any corp you can click on the faction and then see the show info on the faction. Go to the standings tab and you will see their relationship with other factions.
If you look at Caldari State they are -2.0 with Minmatar Republic and -5.0 with Gallente Federation. That means for every 1.0 increase in Caldari Standing that you Achieve you will go down with Minmatar by 0.2 and down with Gallente by 0.5. However Caldari has a 7.0 standing towards Amarr empire but Amarr only has a 5.0 with Caldari which means the same 1.0 increase in Caldari will get you 0.5 increase with Amarr but a 1.0 increase with Amarr will get you a 0.7 increase with Caldari. That is assuming that I am reading all the "<" and ">" correctly.
Something also worth noting is that all standings increases are expressed as a percentage of the difference from where you are to perfect which is 10. So at zero the percentage is equal to the increase if you move the decimal one place. Lower than zero and you move faster and higher than zero and you move slower.
So if you study one of the standings charts that are out there you can do things like run missions for SoE which give you decent increase with Gal and Mini while barely scratching your Amarr / Caldari standings and then run some Amarr or Caldari missions to balance it out for example.
Also note that only storyline missions affect your faction standings when you turn them in and only faction standings have this relationship. However non-storyline missions can be faction kill missions meaning running missions for a faction's Navy they will occasionally ask you to kill an opposing faction's ships. In many cases you will receive a faction hit for each ship killed.
Also each empire faction has an epic arc mission line which are almost a free pass on the negative standings hit to opposing factions but can only be run once every 90 days or so.
Kzaji wrote:
I'm a bit lost with the LP stuff, I was just expecting to earn enough to get by with bounties, loot/salvage and rewards from L4 missions, as I had read in other threads. Though they were dated, is this no longer a possibility?
In most cases looting / Salvaging isn't worth the time. If you want max isk / hour you speed run missions. Completing as many as possible in as short a time as possible to get the most LP. For me I enjoy looting and salvaging so I always loot and salvage but I am more concerned with fun than max isk.
Kzaji wrote:
Null sec exploration was okay, but I got tired of scanning sigs down to find another WH, and when eventually finding a relic site I often failed hacks. Probably a lack of skills but as a taster, I got pretty bored.
I was just looking at eve-agents and saw that the Theology council has a few multiple agents for each level mission, was going to run them. Is there any reason not to and to instead do SoE? Is SoE much different? Their agents are more spread out.
Skills will help with hacking but also flying the right ship and having the right mods helps. Further learning what you are doing helps a bit also as those little numbers that pop up mean something and if you learn how to read them you can get better at it.
IDK anything about Theology council. SoE has good isk to LP because they don't have that many high sec combat agents and they have really good stuff in the LP store. They are technically a pirate faction that exists in high sec. The four main empire factions give out lots of LP through faction warfare so their prices get a little diluted by that. |