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Missions in Caldari space
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Zash Faye
Coven Research inc.
#1 - 2013-02-27 07:30:40 UTC
Last night I started grinding my way up to level 4 missions with a character for the Caldari Navy faction and I noticed about half the level 1 missions I did (if not more) were against Gallente. A lot of these mission rats dont have a bounty but drop tags... That means I have to loot them otherwise I miss out on fair amounts of isk while grinding towards level 4 missions.

Now my questions: does this change in level 2, 3 and 4 missions? Or will there still be loads of Gallente missions that drop tags... And if that is the case, in what space or for wat faction should I be doing missions to get mostly rats with bounties instead?

Thanks for any replies & tips!
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-02-27 08:26:03 UTC
Doesn't matter what level it is, all Empire NPC's will have no bounty and almost always drop Navy Tags. The Anti-Empire encounter missions will also give you negative standing hits for ship kill.

Now if you want to collect bounties on NPC's (Pirate Factions), then decline all Anti-Empire encounter missions.


DMC

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AGSeeker
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2013-02-27 08:50:36 UTC  |  Edited by: AGSeeker
DeMichael Crimson wrote:
Doesn't matter what level it is, all Empire NPC's will have no bounty and almost always drop Navy Tags. The Anti-Empire encounter missions will also give you negative standing hits for ship kill.

Now if you want to collect bounties on NPC's (Pirate Factions), then decline all Anti-Empire encounter missions.


DMC


Small addition:

If u decline Mission, then there will be a 4 hour timer until u can decline another mission without standing hit. (this is per agent)

If u decline another Mission in these 4 hours, then u will get astanding hit on the npc corp the agent works for and on the agent.
Zash Faye
Coven Research inc.
#4 - 2013-02-27 09:41:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Zash Faye
Thanks for the replies. I am aware of the standing hits when declining more than 1 each 4 hours. I also am aware of the fact that empire faction missions give tags and not bounties. So basicly your replies didn't actually answer my question.

The thing is that I used to have a character that had access to lvl 4 missions in Amarr space for the Ministry of War and as far as I remember, he used to have missions with bounties about 80% of the time which are mostly against Sansha's and Blood Raiders and a bit against Angels/Gallente Federation. I was thinking that perhaps missions from Caldari Navy are mostly against Gallente Federation and not Guristas. Or am I just unlucky and might this be different with a lvl 2,3 or 4 agent?
Ylariana
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-02-27 10:50:29 UTC
Dont quote me but I seem to remember seeing more Cross-Faction missions at lower levels too, though this may have simply been due to the speed at which you can tear through the L1/2 missions if youre fit correctly.

Be wary of ignoring the faction hits for those - its MUCH harder to repair faction than it is to damage it.

The higher level missions still generate cross-faction jobs but since each mission will take longer (eating up more of the 4hour refusal refresh) declining them is less of a headache.

The part I love is where you get two cross-faction jobs in a row effectively locking that agent for 4 hours if you cant afford to lose the agent and corp standing for refusal.....
Ylariana
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-02-27 10:52:38 UTC
Additionally, Cald Navy does provide missions against Guristas/serpentis/Angels etc. You may see more of one rat flavour than others based on where in space you are running the missions.

I've never tracked the ratio as all I care about is the cash/loot/standing, not the name of the mark that i'm paid to kill (resist fitting options aside, that is)
goldiiee
Bureau of Astronomical Anomalies
#7 - 2013-02-27 11:03:22 UTC
I always believed the large amount of faction missions provided by lower level agents was a game design. The worse you make your standings early on, the harder you have to work to get them back later on, it adds in a safety margin to retain players that are trying to figure out the big puzzle; Gives them goals .

Things that keep me up at night;  Why do we use a voice communication device to send telegraphs? Moore's Law should state, Once you have paid off the last PC upgrade you will need another.
Zash Faye
Coven Research inc.
#8 - 2013-02-27 12:53:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Zash Faye
Thanks for your replies, these comments were quite usefull.

About fixing the faction hits: I have a character that was -9.36 with Gallente Federation due to doing all Amarr and Caldari Cosmos missions + massive amounts of lvl 4's and lvl 5's. Obviously I couldn't enter Gallente space anymore and fixed this by getting Diplomacy to 4 and doing the lvl 1 datacentre agents in Minnie and Gallente space. This fixed my effective standing to about -3,5. So not to bad.

But more on-topic: I will post how the grinding through level 2,3 and 4 missions goes as well to see if I notice any differences. But yeah, lvl 1 missions are easy blitzable.
Dante Uisen
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#9 - 2013-02-27 13:01:25 UTC
Zash Faye wrote:
Now my questions: does this change in level 2, 3 and 4 missions?


I think so, i also use to get a lot of the Gallente missions while while doing the level 1-2 Caldari navy missions. I'm not sure if it changed because i changed agent, or because it just naturally changes in the higher missions.
Hakaimono
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2013-02-27 18:36:47 UTC
Sisters of EVE have a L4 agent in Caldari space and they rarely give missions against Empire rats.