Missions & Complexes

A lot of people would recommend doing missions for Sisters of Eve because of the rewards (new battleship in next patch) amongst other things. However, due to the popularity of those agents, it's gank central around there at the moment.

I never did any missions yet I dont have 5.0 standing with anywhere.

my recomandations would be to run security missions and check the lp store to run for someone where u can get good money for your lp's. And i would also try to avoid main mission hubs that way dangers of ninjas and suicide is also reduced.

If you use missile boats or plan on getting a marauder in the future, I find that Sasoutikh is pretty nice. Relatively quiet and has two level 4 agents for the Theology Council there. Also, there are Balginia in Minmatar space, and Torrinos in Caldari space to look into as they have a good agent distribution in the area.

I can't vouche for Torrinos though, never been there and its adjacent to null space, so you may occasionally get one of those evil pirates coming through, But the other two areas are decent.

IDK of any similar places in gallente territory but would love to find one myself as many of my freinds crawl around there.

EDIT: Just noticed you mentioned a Rattler.. those are pretty general purpose and do ok anywhere you chose, not really excelling in one region over another, imo.

rattler is probably your best and safest ship to do soe in as it can be buffer fit out the wazoo and so long as you dont fit faction or ded space or officer items you will be 100% safe.

remember buffer + resists is your friend agains cuicide gankers. just dont use a mtu or drones set to agressive.

One upside of missions is that they're available throughout hisec. However if missioning is your primary thing, and then you should mission where the best rewards are. That means finding corporations that have valuable loyalty points. Navy corporations are everywhere and offer level 4 security missions all over, but consequently their loyalty points are devalued. However, there are also other considerations to picking a corporation. If the coporation has stations with medical facilities, they can provide jumpclones. If the corporation is one of the four on DMCs list, they provide access to their respective faction's epic arcs, which can be rather important. If you're interested in R&D agents or have the skills to use them, then you need standings with an R&D corp to access those agents. You also might want to gain standings to get tax-free refining at a station, or to reduce taxes and fees trading at a major trade hub.

Lanngisi

Also a gank hub. But not so much Rattlers, since they can T2 fit a big buffer. One other drawback to that system is the adjacent system known by my guys as "B*stard Barkrik" owing to its ridiculous diameter (140AU mission hauls are common and understandably unpopular in a BS).

New Mission Runner Quick Plan

1) Pick Faction (Gallente or Caldari)
2) Buy Tags to use with Data Center Agents to gain very quick level 3 agents. (Look up Repair Plan to find agents) No need to run lower level mission agents really. As an example, when I make a new character for standings, I just buy tags for both Amarr and Caldari data center agents and each end up helping the other with standings and my toon is running level 3 agents without firing a shot, or very close to it.
3) Find System Station with Multiple Agents in one station. This makes turning down missions much easier.
4) Turn down any Missions Against other factions no matter how much ISK they pay... You'll thank me later.
5) Switch Factions once you get enough Lvl 4 missions under your belt and you can work for any empire agent.