Comments on: EVE Online: It’s Wabbit Season

By: Callan S.

Callan S. — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:25:54 +0000

What’s your overall goal in playing EVE, anyway, Tipa? With WOW you said it was to take down the old Onyxia and finish MC. What’s your goal in eve?

By: Toldain

Toldain — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:20:56 +0000

Some study of this is instructive. All their last 10 deaths have been in CVA space (KBP7-G and XHQ-7V). All their last 10 kills were in the Dodixie system, and in the last couple of days. I think they are “friendly” to CVA in the sense of willing to be cat’s paws. They will take contracts from CVA corps, while remaining officially KOS to CVA.

We are not being singled out. They are killing lots of other corps. We just made it on to someone’s list. I seriously doubt that they will hunt us down, especially while far away.

Sadly, trips to Dodixie have been highly profitable for me, and I’ll probably have to give them up. One is extremely vulnerable while docking.

By: Maineiac

Maineiac — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:21:34 +0000

I’m currently running SOE L4 missions in highsec and it’s completely possible to get up there without going into lowsec. The catch is, the agents are in Caldari space. The Forge to be exact. There are level 1 and 2 agents in Airaken and a level 4 Q0 agent in Osmon. I kept running L2 missions until I was eligible for L4′s but it paid off in the long run.

Now I have access to a L4 Q17 SOE agent in Gicodel, highsec Gallente space.

By: Magson

Magson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:09:25 +0000

There’s a Sisters of EVE station in Rens in Minmatar space. All 4 faction grant positive faction for work done for SOE, but they only offer Level 1 missions in Rens, so getting standings up with them would be a LONG slog. The rest of the SOE stuff is all in lowsec and in NPC nullsec — hard to get to, but I’m told it’s fairly worth it, if the standings are what worry you most.

I’m told you can also buy tags for a faction and turn them in at data centers in order to jump standings up as well, but I’ve never tried that and don’t know where these data centers are.

FWIW, I’m told that diplo 5 will take a -5 down to a -2, so if you’re below -5, the diplo skill won’t help anymore, though it should make it easier to restore a minimal standing, assuming you can get the related scores up from working for allied groups like you’re now doing.

By: Shirrath

Shirrath — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:27:30 +0000

If all else fails, every Empire faction likes the Sisters of Eve. Reaching them safely can be a problem, though.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:07:06 +0000

My standings are actually below -5 with both factions; my Diplomacy 2 is all that keeps me alive in that space. I’m not sure if even getting to Diplomacy 5 would get me above -2… it MIGHT. I just dunno….

By: Akura

Akura — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:44:08 +0000

often mercenaries get paid to wardec 0.0 alliances/corporations to disrupt empire logistics in preparation for an offensive in nullsec by those that employed the mercs.. at least, thats what happens to my alliance quite a bit – the monthly privateers wardec has become something of a running joke.

Welcome to 0.0 :-)

also – have you tried training diplomacy – if you get it to lvl 2 or 3 it should make up for your -2 standing and allow you to run lvl 1 agents for those factions you have slighted.