Should I try to have positive standing with all four major factions?

This is a simple question, but I can't find a decent answer.

I have recently started to play Eve Online as a Caldari capsuleer, and I am currently doing lvl 3 missions in a Drake.

As I didn't pay much attention to faction standings at the beginning, I am now at -2.03 towards the Gallente Federation, and I'm starting to wonder if I should try to get this standing positive again.

As far as I have understood, the only reliable way to gain faction standing, apart epic arcs or factional warfare is doing storyline missions, which is going to take some time to go from -2 to 0.

So, does it really worth it to manage to get a positive standing towards all four major factions ?

Solution 1:

I've thought of this myself after realizing that my gallante standing was -7 (running with a Caldari mission corp will get you there pretty fast), and eventually decided to just pump up my social skills. Its quicker then trying to get your standing up, and unless you've completely buggered your standing with a faction you shouldn't be killed on site if you happen to wander into space claimed by a faction that doesn't' like you too much.

The only time I'd worry about having great standing with all four factions is if your character is going super hardcore into industry(and I mean 100% non-stop indy character). If you're in EVE for the pew pew, just keeping your faction standing around the -2/3 area for everyone is good enough to not have your ships popped on sight should say, a war target fly through space that you'd get popped on sight for.