Missions & Complexes

I just got back up to hisec and was running through distribution missions to fix my standings with a couple factions. So i'm no longer shoot on sight.

I thought awhile ago CCP fixed missions where you only get the specific missions for that agent type. I.E.. Security gives kill missions, mining gives mining missions and distribution gives transport missions.

I'm trying to blast through lvl 1 distributions but found i need to bring a whole fleet of ships to do these. It's been giving me mining, combat and just a little bit of transport

WTF? >.>

Seriously why would a distribution agent give his hauler Combat missions? Shouldn't that be deferred to security agents lol

The problem you're probably facing is that there are some multi-part mission that are mostly couriers with occasional combat or vice versa. As the missions come as a chain, they can't really be split up. I don't think CCP really thought this through during the mission change, so either decline multi-part missions or just suck it up with a variety of ships like you said. :)

This kind of problems only occurs on Level 1 distribution.

I also needed to farm standing and I used Distribution on 2 account simultaneously (DUAL SCREEN POWA) and started from level 2 missions. I NEVER get combat mission during the tons of missions I made. But I already heard about level 1 fight mission in distribution so it should quickly stop, just farm until level 2.

The only "lot of combat mission" I get was a storyline 1/10 (that influenced my standing by 22%, so I switched from 4,5 to 5,5 (I also loled hard)) given after a few level 3 distribution mission.

The agent should give you all hauling missions if he's a distribution agent. But the storyline agents have never been fixed to give only missions that match their type. So 1 in 16 missions will still be random no matter what you do.

The lower level missions are filled with those multi-part missions. I don't think they occur on L3 missions, and unless things have been changed they do not exist in L4 missions. The trick is find a specific NPC standing to focus on so you can get up to L4 missions faster which will also bring better faction bonuses.

I have an extensive list of which NPC corps had the highest number of level 4 distribution agents but wrote these hard to read notes about a year ago. I think Freedom Extensions leads with 28, followed by Amarr Trade Registry at 22, Imperial Shipment Storage at 18, and Expert Distribution with 17 agents.

You need to do one level one mission for Connections skill to work, and then train Connections 3.

Example: 0.01 base standing

Connections 0: 0.01 + 0 * (10 - 0.1) * 0.04 = 0.010
Connections 1: 0.01 + 1 * (10 - 0.1) * 0.04 = 0.406
Connections 2: 0.01 + 2 * (10 - 0.1) * 0.04 = 0.802
Connections 3: 0.01 + 3 * (10 - 0.1) * 0.04 = 1.198 <= You can do level 2 missions!
Connections 4: 0.01 + 4 * (10 - 0.1) * 0.04 = 1.594
Connections 5: 0.01 + 5 * (10 - 0.1) * 0.04 = 1.990

Odd prime numbers:

Any : Level 1
1.0 : Level 2
3.0 : Level 3
5.0 : Level 4
7.0 : Level 5

http://eve-agents.com/

i'd love to just train connections, but seeing as my raw standings with gallente the faction im trying to fix is -8.76 thats not going to work. I've pumped up diplomacy to 4 and got it down to -5.76. Not worth training to 5 though personally. I have more importants skills to train so i'll pump through missions for it. If its just lvl 1's having this error that explains why i'm now just seeing it. I've done distributions before but those were always 3 or higher.

It wasn't just the storylines or multi-missions that have odd ones, but it toss in a single combat mission here and there. Thankfully it is lvl 1 so a cheap frig is all i needed to haul over to assist in running through them. They are unfortunatly too common to skip the every 4 hours. and until my standings drop below -5 im stuck picking off single agents instead of running in mass lol.

Thanks for the help everyone 07