I run missions in Caldari space waiting for the family and I to have skilled up our new toons and, unexpectedly, I got shot at entering Gallente space.
I checked my rep, I was at -5.6 or so. Running Caldari missions comes at a price!
So I tried running lvl1 distribution missions for Gallente after increasing my diplomacy skills and… it is way too slow. Every 16 missions I get a storyline one for a whooping +0.12 standing increase… while losing Caldari rep at the same time which means it’s no bueno to reach the +5.0 needed for the next epic arc.
I need to travel everywhere with this toon to retrieve my PI stuff, so I’m looking for some way to fix this standings issue without waiting 3 months to run the Sisters of EVE Epic Ark or wasting millions in insignas trade.
Any clue?
P.S.: when I last played this game 18 years, I never had this problem since I was living in null, but I think the system is way too harsh for people who live in Empire.
Train Diplomacy skill if it’s not already, then do the above suggestion. In the future, do not take missions that make you kill Empire ships (Caldari/Gallente/Amarr/Minmatar), that is how you got to your current problem.
The venerable “Standings Repair Plan” by DeMichael Crimson is still handy:
And the United Standings Improvement Agency (USIA) is a service that can help also:
In general, it’s best to read mission text descriptions and check the Faction icons of whoever they’re sending you against as the objective. If it’s against a faction you don’t want to lose standings with, decline it. It’s best if you work from systems with multiple agents in them so you can get multiple options.
Create three new Alpha accounts, 9 toons total. Run the SOE Arc on all 9 of them, up until the very last mission against Dagan. Purchase the weekend fleet pass for all three accounts for like $3.75 USD each, total of around $12 USD. Finish the Arc on each toon while fleeted up with the character you are trying to raise standings on. Do that for all 9 of them.
And presto. You have a huge standings increase for slightly less than the cost of a single month of Omega. Running the SOE Arc 9 times on your main character would normally have taken you over 2 years. With this method, it takes 2 days.
The links that @Kezrai_Charzai posted will definitely help a lot…
As for advising which specific steps to do, it would be very helpful if you posted your standings with the 4 main Factions along with the skills and levels you’ve trained in the Social Skill group…