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The faction standing with corporation standing define the broker fees when trading in stations belonging to that faction.
BrokerFee % = 3% - 0.1% × BrokerRelationsLevel - 0.03% × FactionStanding - 0.02% × CorpStanding
The faction standing also has the most serious effect if it gets too low. At -5.00 faction standing navy vessels will chase you down in high security space that belongs to that faction. As long as you pay attention you can travel through their space as they will not point your ship but just attack and web.
| Standing | Effect |
|---|---|
| −5 modified | You are “kill on sight” anywhere in that faction’s space. NPC Navies will spawn and attack you. Note that unlike Concord, Navy ships will not warp disrupt or scram you. |
| -2 modified | Agents of that faction will no longer speak to you regardless of corp or agent standing. Except L1 agents, these will continue to be available. |
| 0.0 unmodified | You may join Factional Warfare for that faction. |
| 1.0 modified | Access to all normal L2 agents of that faction. |
| 3.0 modified | Access to all normal L3 agents of that faction. |
| 5.0 modified | Access to all L4 agents of that faction. |
| 7.0 modified | Access to all L5 agents of that faction. |
Faction standing is also required for all COSMOS agents. The standing requirements for these agents are different than for normal agents. These agents don’t care about your corp standing.
| Standing | Effect |
|---|---|
| 2.0 modified | Access to L2 COSMOS agents of that faction. |
| 4.0 modified | Access to L3 COSMOS agents of that faction. |
| 6.0 modified | Access to L4 COSMOS agents of that faction (not all). |
| 7.0 modified | Access to L4 COSMOS agents of that faction (not all). |
| 8.5 modified | The factions will offer you a special COSMOS mission (faction frigate BPC or implant). |
| 9.2 modified | The factions will offer you a special COSMOS mission (faction cruiser BPC or implant). |
| 9.9 modified | The factions will offer you a special COSMOS mission (faction battleship BPC or implant). |
Corporation standings
Corporation standing does not effect as many systems as faction standings. Corporation standing is used to get access to higher level mission agents and to lower broker and reprocessing fees in NPC station. Corporation standing towards the resource wars corporations is also needed to gain acces to higher level wesource wars sites.
| Standing | Effect |
|---|---|
| -2 modified | Agents of that corporation will no longer speak to you regardless of faction or agent standing. Except L1 agents, these will continue to be available. |
| 1.0 modified | Access to all normal L2 agents of that corporation. L2 resource wars. |
| 3.0 modified | Access to all normal L3 agents of that corporation. L3 resource wars. |
| 5.0 modified | Access to all normal L4 agents of that corporation. L4 resource wars. |
| 7.0 modified | Access to all normal L5 agents of that corporation. L5 resource wars. |
| 6.67 modified | Tax-free refining. |
Agent standings
Agent standings are the weakest NPC standings but also the fastest one to gain. This standing allows you to take missions from that one agent with whom you have standing even if your faction or corporation standings are not high enough as long as both of them are better than -2.00.
| Standing | Effect |
|---|---|
| -2 modified | This agent will no longer speak to you regardless of faction or corporation standing. Except L1 agents, these will continue to be available. |
| 1.0 modified | Access to L2 agent. |
| 3.0 modified | Access to L3 agent. |
| 5.0 modified | Access to L4 agent. |
| 7.0 modified | Access to L5 agent. |