Gartel Reiman
Civis Romanus Sum
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Posted - 2009.01.27 08:57:00 -
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 Originally by: Bo'Tox
Faction standings do go up with missions but only VERY slowly (could be around 0.0001, so It will take alONG time!)
Faction standings only go up with storyline missions. They do not go up at all with 'regular' missions (though you will lose opponent faction standing in some missions that require you to kill their ships).
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Do agent missions to increase tyour standings with that agent and corp. Related corps will also have a standings increase
No they don't. Running missions for a corp will only increase your standings with that corporation (if you show your standings to any corp you can right click to "show transactions", showing exactly when it changed, by how much and why). There is also no game mechanic for "related" corps.
If you want to start running missions for a different corp, you will do this either by working up your standings from their initial level, or via your faction standing. Chances are what might have happened here is that you have Connections 3+, and by doing a storyline mission you gain an effective faction standing of 1.2 or more, and thus can run low-level missions for any Caldari corp.
Though the point still stands, you will only get corporate gains for interacting directly with that corp (usually just through running missions).
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Remember though, that you need to have Social to L3 and Connections to l3 too to get any significant standings increases....
That's kind of misleading too. Social improves standing gain by 5% per level, so Social 3 will mean each standing increase is 15% higher - that's good, but I wouldn't exactly call it the difference between "significant" and "insignificant". And Connections has absolutely no effect whatsoever on standing increases; all that Connections does is give you a flat boost to your base standings with that corp (so at Connections 3 you effectively start with a 1.2 standing instead of 0.0), after that all standing increases happen at exactly the same rate regardless of what you have Connections trained to.
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When you do 16 missions for a Particular level agent then you will get a Storyline of the same level.
It doesn't have to be the same agent, or even the same corporation either. Every time you complete your 16th mission of a particular level for a particular faction's agents, you will get a storyline mission of that level for that faction. Thus you don't need to worry about "breaking your chain" or anything like that.
For example you can run say 10 level 2 missions for Kaalakiota, 5 level 1 missions for Caldari Navy, a dozen level 1 missions for a Gallente corp, and then come back to run 6 level 2 missions for Caldari Navy - the sixth will make that up to 16 Caldari level 2 missions, and you will get a level 2 Caldari storyline mission (from the nearest Caldari storyline agent to where you handed in that 16th mission). You could also then go and run 4 more Gallente level 1 missions at any point in the future and get offered a level 1 Gallente storyline. |