EVE New Citizens Q&A

For Level 3 missions it's typically recommend to use a Battle cruiser class ship or a Heavy Assault Cruiser. Alternatively you could use an Assault Frigate, Battleship, Command Ship or a Recon too.

As for doing security missions + FW sure you can do that. But note when you enter faction warfare you also enter a war with the 2 opposite factions so others might come in and attempt to kill you.

Leave you with this guide as well.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Missions_guide

With very few exceptions, your cruiser will die horribly in level 3s. A Battlecruiser is best.

You will never lose Security Status doing missions for Empire Factions (Amarr, Gallente, etc).
You CAN lose Faction Standing by doing mission against other Factions (Caldari Navy mission against Gallente for example).
Most people do such a mission against an Empire Faction once to see what it is and then never again. Note that you always want to do the storyline missions, even if they are against an Empire Faction.
The same thing applies to the Pirate Factions of course so if you plan to do mission for them in the future you don't want to do mission against them for the Empire Factions.
I think you can lose Security Status by doing missions against Concord for the Pirate Factions but I've never done any.

Faction War is an entirely different system and you can pretty much be assured that you will ruin your standing with your opposing faction over time. This can be fixed but it is a lot of work. If you never do missions for the opposing faction it is no problem to have low standing with them.

If you are afraid to be interrupted during your mission, using an AF would allow you to escape more easily. It's a bit slower than with a BC but it's fun !

Lai Dai also has a partner security corporation.

You can run missions for them as well.

If you're a noob, SP-wise or player knowledge wise, then no you should not try running level 3 security missions in a Caracal. It's underpowered for them. The "standard" is a Drake. Your Caracal may be able to survive if you speed tank a lot, but your damage output (damage-per-second) will be too low.

A T2 Caracal, the Cerberus, or the Navy Issue Caracal, might work for you. I've had a very easy time running level 3 missions in a Ceberus recently, but I'm not a noob, at least not in terms of SP. A Drake is just better, for a low SP pilot.

Distribution missions are very boring, but you can do them semi-AFK. I find mining missions nicer, because they're faster, or at least don't seem so slow to me, and I never get sent out of the system my agent is in, so I never have to reject missions (whereas security missions will often send you 3 or 4, sometimes 5, hops away, and sometimes that means visiting or passing through low-sec). But you really need a Mining Barge to run level 3 mining missions, and some mining skillz, whereas level 3 distribution missions (and level 4 too) can be done in any industrial (I've yet to get a distribution mission that didn't involve breakbulk cargo).

How do I pick a corp to run missions for? I'm not sure of what kind of criteria I should've been looking at.

I get that I need to look at the Lp store and where the agents are and all, and I know how to find where agents are, but what makes a good corp to run missions for? That's my real challenge.

Found this while doing more reading:

I'd still like some advice on picking good corps for mission though.

And how to spot a good mission hub.

Choosing a decent NPC corporation

Other things to look for:
* Agents in a region with a dominant NPC you prefer (for damage reasons or EWAR use)
* Security division agents, unless you really like doing mining and courier missions.
* System security - lower is better for rewards and bounties.
* Stations with multiple security agents, especially of the same level.
* Stations with security agents where the nearest storyline agent of the same faction is in the same corp (rare, so often I move to a less desirable agent to do mission #16, so I always get a storyline mission with the same corp).
* You are less likely to be bothered by other players while missioning in systems in the middle of nowhere.
* Systems with a low population, so you are less likely to be bothered by other players while missioning
* Dead-end systems with a single stargate tend to get less thru-traffic than a system with say 5 stargates.
* Systems further from lowsec, so the agents are less likely to send you there.
* Systems with free moons (for POS, if industry is your thing).


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