Faction Warfare Loyalty Points

Overview

Loyalty points are the reward for performing activities in faction warfare. They are by far the hardest part of faction warfare, mostly because they are extremely misunderstood by new players.

In this guide, we are going to go over two ways to convert your loyalty points to ISK:

1. Brokers — selling loyalty points directly to folks that convert them in volume, typically making 10–25% margins.
2. DIY — using the loyalty point store to convert loyalty points into ISK for yourself.

Both styles are valid, so we'll let you make the decision.

The loyalty point store allows you to convert loyalty points into items that you can sell on the market. Our net formula (after sales tax and freight) is:

ISK/LP ≈ (market × qty − sales tax − ISK cost − other cost − input freight − output freight) / LP cost

Sales tax is 3.37%. Freight is Red Frog style at 45M ISK per 1.5B cargo (3%) on Jita ↔ Amo for both inbound inputs and outbound sales.

The best way to understand this is to look at an online tool. Fuzzwork’s LP store is the classic external table. We prefer our tool for the same information, because it's much more accessible to new players.

Recommendation

Although we recommend everyone try to convert their own loyalty points at some point, we recommend the following path for all new players.

1. Use a broker for your first 250M ISK. You will generate this in one day, and it will provide you the capital you need to convert your own loyalty points.
2. Use high volume, lower value offers to convert your first billion ISK. You can do this in your first week of faction warfare.

Please, don't try and maximize your loyalty point conversion tactics on day one — it's fairly complex and you need capital to do it. Much like yourself in your 20s: your income stream is your best moneymaker, not your capital. The best thing you can be doing for your first 5 billion ISK is running small complexes.

Brokers

Overview

If you want fast ISK without the hassle, sell to a broker. We recommend pilots start with this if their alliance supports it, because it's usually better for new players to just keep running complexes.

There are a few known brokers out there:

Be extremely careful of scams — loyalty point scams are fairly common. Only use trusted sources.

Example flow

1. Join the Minmatar Fleet Discord
2. Go to our loyalty point store page
3. Press Sell Loyalty Points
4. Select the type and amount
5. Follow the instructions in the thread

Important: There is no loyalty point ledger, so you will need to provide screenshots of the steps for the broker so that they can confirm you sent the loyalty points.

Systems

To convert your loyalty points, you need to travel to a system with a loyalty point store for your faction.

Unless you are in Caldari State, you will likely need to move your goods to a major trade hub (usually Jita) to sell them. Do not move large volumes of goods yourself. New Eden is littered with Iteron Mark V wrecks worth a billion ISK where new players wanted to do everything themselves on their first day.

Use a freight service to ship goods, where it makes sense:

• Red Frog Freight (usually 1–2% of cargo, meaningless margin to you)
• PushX (similar prices)

If you insist on moving things yourself, we recommend sticking to low volumes (under 25M ISK) of Navy Cap Booster 3200 / Navy Cap Booster 800 and various datacores.

Stores

Once you get to a store, you'll need to purchase an item so that you can sell it on the market. This is where those online tools come in handy.

1. Go to our loyalty point store tool
2. Select your currency
3. Select Buy for your first conversions

From here, you'll see a table of offers that you can convert. There's a few things you want to look out for.

1. Volume. The most common pitfall people hit is buying something that looks like it converts at a great price, but only a few sell every single week. You'll be stuck selling the same thing for months, and it won't move.
2. ISK/LP. This is the rate that you get by converting this item.
3. Other cost. This is the other tricky part — some items require other items, and ISK, to convert them. If you don't have capital, you can't take advantage of some offers.

We recommend various sized cap boosters, datacores, and small (frigate, destroyer, etc) blueprints for players to start with. You can sell the blueprints on public contract — just undercut people until you get the hang of it.

Example flow

Note: This only works for Minmatar.

1. Travel to Hek VIII - Moon 12 - Boundless Creation Factory
2. Purchase an Iteron Mark V
3. Purchase a few million ISK of Cap Booster XXXX
4. Move them to the Hek VII - Tribal Liberation Force Logistic Support
5. Convert them to Navy Cap Booster XXXX
6. Move them back to Hek VIII - Moon 12 - Boundless Creation Factory
7. Sell them locally on the market

Don't chase the ISK dragon too soon. You're going to make hundreds of billions of ISK in loyalty points over your ISK career; saving a few hundred million at the start is meaningless. Focus on items that require no upfront capital, especially if they can be moved in a Sunesis or shuttle.

Pitfalls

• Paper ISK/LP — BPCs, rare modules, and low-volume navy hulls can still look rich and don’t clear. Our BPC rates assume you build the hull in Amamake (planner costs), then sell the hull — not BPC contract flips.
• Ignoring required items — navy upgrades that need a pile of T1 can erase the edge if you buy T1 retail in the wrong place.
• Dumping into a thin book — one large sell order can push you below buyback rates; watch the spread and recent volume.
• Wrong price side — planning on sell-side ISK/LP, then panic-selling into buy orders.
• Freight afterthought — navy caps especially: product m³ can dominate. Quote PushX/Red Frog before you commit.
• Skins, chips, packages, vanity — exclude them unless you have a specific buyer.
• Standing / docking — alts without TLIB access cannot cash out that character’s LP in that store.
• Opportunity cost — time spent manufacturing, hauling, and babysitting orders is real. Brokers exist so you can stay in fleets.
• Stale third-party tables — always refresh; militia meta and Jita prices move.