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Help wanted: Career path to 0.0 mission running
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Linkdead
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-06-17 23:46:18 UTC
I played from beta through 2008 and recently started back. I’ve been running level 4 in high sec for the last 3 weeks and have already grown incredibly board. I have great rep w/Mordu's Legion…used to do a lot of solo mission / mining in 0.0. After taking stalk in my eve experience I came up w/this:

  • Love: Running around in 0.0 solo doing missions
  • Hate: Being blowd…up in my pod

Pirates make the game fun! They add the mission ingredient in eve…real danger. I don’t have the RL skill anymore to outplay anyone. What would be the recommended course of action for my eve career to eventually get into 0.0 solo mission running?

On a side note, I had forgotten how much I enjoy the eve community. Seems like responses and support are of a much higher ilk than other mmos. Thanks!
Substantia Nigra
Polaris Rising
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2013-06-18 01:20:26 UTC
Linkdead wrote:

Pirates make the game fun! They add the mission ingredient in eve…real danger. I don’t have the RL skill anymore to outplay anyone. What would be the recommended course of action for my eve career to eventually get into 0.0 solo mission running?


Nullsec / lowsec / w-space PvE certainly has that extra danger element on top of the usual old mission-runner stuff.

I headed into nullsec mission-running via the Pirate Epic Arcs (unashamed advertising in my sig below). Those arcs are frigate-friendly (frigate-destroyer necessary), pretty darn lucrative, and a whole lot of fun because the player characters are the real risk not the NPCs. Having done each of those arcs a number of times, and build my kits and put them on the market, I took up residence in Curse and ran level 4 missions with various Angels corps for a while. I moved on from that but it was also a lot of fun and more education in the ways and the wiles of nullsec carebearing.

A year or so later it was brilliant when we [GENTS] did a fun invasion of Curse and sent all the bigtalking bullies, that had threatened little ol mission-runner me, scattering to the wind.

Curse is also a little easier to get into from hisec than the Mordus’ home territories, which are usually quieter but are presently seeing lots of war-related traffic.

I guess I am almost a 'vet' by now. Hopefully not too bitter and managing to help more than I hinder. I build and sell many things, including large collections of bookmarks.
Evangelina Nolen
Sama Guild
#3 - 2013-06-18 01:24:51 UTC
There really isn't any career path to 0.0 mission running cause, lets face it, not that many agents in 0.0.
Rovinia
Exotic Dancers Union
#4 - 2013-06-18 01:32:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Rovinia
First, look for which faction you want to do missions. Take a look at the LP stores, the faction drops/spawns and the territories they are in. Perhaps that will help you a bit: http://www.ellatha.com/eve/LP-Stores

Some factions make excessive use of their Ewar, so take that into consideration. Bloodraiders for example often have Tracking disruptors, which are harder to do in a turret based ship than in a missileboat.

Than grap a cheap ship (like a caracal) and start grinding standing for the faction you have chosen. You do that until the level 4 agent of your choice offers you missions. I did it by blitzing level 2's quite fast, worked ok for me.

You just need to mash your scanner from time to time when you do it and look out for scanner probes. That's the only way they can find you in your missioncomplex, so there is no need to get to a savespot for every traveler that pases the system. Just smash you scanner a bit harder. Its generaly pretty save if you do it right and don't afk too much.

Use a scout(!!!) when your agent sends you to other systems what will happen quite often.

I would also recommend a cloaking device on your ship, in cases you get camped in or the enemy is really stubborn at probing you in a system without a station to dock.

Fly save and have fun Smile
StainLessStealRat
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-06-24 09:15:01 UTC
Once you get L4's bring out a few Alts to use to pick up more missions, I try and get 4 blitzable missions in a system by rejecting until i get a missions i like.Doing this over 3 or more characters is the best way to increase your earnings and reduce gate jumps.

In a nullified cloaky tengu its close to impossible to get caught and you can blitz a good percentage of the missions.

The isk is in the LP so make a spreadsheet to work out the best L/P rates. generally 2,500isk/LP is the lowest you want to sell at.With a good spreadsheet and patience 10,000 isk/ lp is not out of reach.

Use redfrog to move your **** to jita for sale.

There is no career path, our training corp we have a noob who flys an average skilled caracal and has no problems as long as he is picky with his missions.
dexington
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-06-24 12:39:10 UTC
Linkdead wrote:
Pirates make the game fun! They add the mission ingredient in eve…real danger. I don’t have the RL skill anymore to outplay anyone. What would be the recommended course of action for my eve career to eventually get into 0.0 solo mission running?


If all you want to do is run missions outside hi-sec, you should consider low-sec. The two main advantage of low-sec, compared to null, is that you can't get caught in bubbles and you can run level 5 missions.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.