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EVE Online Corporation Standing Guide

Having a high standing with an NPC corporation in EVE Online can lower prices of refining and selling, give you access to higher-quality agents who will pay you more, and enable you to install jump clones in NPC stations. Read this article to learn how to quickly increase your standing with an NPC corporation.

Skills to train to increase corporation standing

Train Social, Connections, and Negotiation to improve your standing with agents and improve the standing increases you get from agents. Training these skills to level five as soon as possible is essential for quickly increasing your standing with a corporation.

Quickly increase standing by working for the best agent

Assuming you have chosen a corporation that you want to work for, look for the agent of that corporation who will give you the highest standing increases per mission. If you need tips on finding an agent, read the finding an agent article.

Standing increases per mission are affected by an agent's level and quality, as well as the size of the corporation you are working for, your current standing with the corporation, the difficulty of the mission, and the level you have trained your Social skill to. Be sure to train Social to level five as soon as you can. There is a more detailed explanation of how standing increases are calculated below.

Quickly increase standing by doing encounter missions for the corporation

Encounter missions are more difficult than courier or mining missions, so if you are going for quick standing increases, encounter missions are the ones you should try to do. Some agent types give more encounter missions than they give of other types, so you should seek those out. In particular, Command agents, Intelligence, Internal Security, Security, and Surveillance give mostly encounter missions.

Your ability to do difficult missions is going to be limited by the type of ship you can afford to buy and have the skills to pilot. In general, a frigate should be sufficient for missions from level 1 agents, but for level 2 you should use a destroyer or cruiser, a battlecruiser for level 3, and a battleship or Tech II ship for level 4.

If you're serious about getting high standing with NPC corporations, train up as soon as possible for piloting a battleship or Tech II ship.

Do 16 missions for the corporation, then complete the important mission for a big standing increase

After doing 16 missions for a corporation, you will be offered an Important Mission, via EVEmail, that will give you a big increase in standing for that corporation, and a standing increase for the faction of that corporation, if you complete it.

Be warned, however, that every time you turn down a mission for an agent of a corporation, you reduce the important mission counter by one. In other words, if you have completed 11 missions for a corporation, but turn down the next one that the corporation offers, the game considers you to only have done 10 missions for that corporation.

There is no way to reset this important mission counter except by completing a storyline mission.

It's important, therefore, to turn down as few missions for a corporation as possible. To avoid having to turn down missions, be sure to have the appropriate ship type that you'll need for the level of missions you're attempting (see above), and be sure you'll have enough time to devote to any mission you might be offered.

Move on to a new agent if a higher-quality, higher-level one becomes available

To ensure that you're getting the biggest standing increases that you can possibly get from each mission you complete for a corporation, keep checking the agent list in that corporation's information window to see if you have better agents available. Travel to that agent and start doing missions for him or her, but move on again if a better agent becomes available.

The formulas for standing increases

Here is how the standing increases are calculated:

What this means is that the secret number that the game has assigned for the difficulty of the mission that you completed is added to either 1 (if you have not trained Social), 1.05 (if your social skill is trained to level 1), 1.1 (if social is at 2), 1.15 (if social is at 3), 1.2 (if social is at 4) or 1.25 (if social is at 5).

Then that number gets multiplied to the agent's efficiency divided by the corporation size. Corporation size is a number between 0 and 1. Larger corporations are therefore harder to gain standing in.

The agent's efficiency is determined using the agent's level and agent's quality in the formula above. Because of the way the formula works, a low-quality agent of level 2 is always going to be more efficient than a high-quality agent of level 1. Therefore, it is best to use an agent who has the highest level and quality that you can reach.

Finally, the corporation standing increase is used to determine your new standing. Take your old standing and add it to 10 minus the old standing (use -10 if you failed a mission or have otherwise lost standing) multiplied by the corporation standing increase.