Missions & Complexes

The bounty value in recon part 1 is actually pretty good if you kill everything. And they all spawn at the same distance from you, this makes killing them all easy if you do enough DPS.

IMO looting is generally a waste of time, both in missions and in null sec anoms.

*snip* Removed off-topic content. -- ISD Supogo

As for the easiest Level 3 Missions, I reached the Gallente Federal Navy Academy first.
(Equivalent of a Tutorial Empire faction corp.)
I could only do the distribution missions however, and they offer the least rewards for standings.
That Tutorial Empire faction corporation only offers distribution missions.
It means that, it takes longer to be gaining standing from Distribution missions than Security.

The second easiest missions were the SOE missions.
They are more efficient missions to gain standing from and arguably the easiest.
SOE have many Security agent offering Security Missions.

Maybe a few 3s with difficult ships would give trouble, but I suspect you would be able to handle a lot of 3s, possibly even most. My Prophecy had 300 DPS when I was doing 3s and it handled them OK.

Note that if your DPS is low your completion times will be slow meaning you need good tank.

Read EVE survival and decide on a mission by mission basis.

None are Offtopic.
3 can be done with 250 dps with enough tank, or 2 ships at 250 dps or 3.

The drones I use are pretty complex.
First off, every regular Empire Faction drones specialize in a damage type.
That is, EM (Amarr), Thermal (Gallente), Kinetic (Caldari) and Explosive (Minmatar).

Most of my damage comes from Drones.

Secondly, the type of drones you use is important.
Certain NPC have more difficulty to hit medium drones than heavy ones due to signature radius and other factors.
In that case, it's sometimes better to keep medium drones out to achieve more actual damage.
That will then happens even though the DPS is half of Heavy Drones.

I am just about to learn Sentry drones which are still stronger than Heavy Drones.

I make Drones Group by right clicking the drones in the Drones bay.
There is an option to Create new group... that shows up.

I name my ground :
H : for Hangar.
That is where I keep most of my drones except a few.

R : for Ready.
That is where I keep 5 of my drones since Drones V allows you to use 5 drones.
That is also where I transfer other ready drones to fight from while in space if not damaged.
The reason I make that Ready group is to help to differentiate them from other damaged drones.
Sometimes the Drones start to get their shield damaged and I return them to Drones bay before.
If only their shield is damage, I put them back to either the Hangar group or another separate group.
(That 2nd separate group depends if the Hangar group is too busy and I can't sort the damaged shield drones...)

The other groups are:
D : for Damaged.
That is the Damaged group 1.
All drones that have Armor damage go there for later repair at dock.

That is why it can be important to have more than 5 Drones in the Drones Bay, for in case of damage.
That allows to have 5 ready, undamaged drones in space to fight.

The last group is:
D2 : for Damaged 2.
That is where I sort some of the drones from the Hangar that have a Damaged shield.
That group becomes needed when there are too many drones coming in and out of the Hangar.
It then becomes more complicated to pick the ones that have no Damaged shield.

That is it for now, of course there are more details and tricks.

Don't count on the Medium Drones to remain undamaged as they have less HP than the Heavy ones.
Normally, the enemy NPCs will attack only one drone or 2 of the group of 5 if you keep them together.
That also means to attack one target at a time and go to the next.


To control the Ready group, I separate them from the Damaged group and choose the Engage Enemy command.

To send the damaged drones to the Damaged group, I right click the damaged drones and chose:
Move drone to : group name.
The group names created automatically show in the right clicked "move to" options.

If the drone gets it's shield damaged, I chose return to Drone Bay, then move it to Hangar (H).
If it's armor gets damaged while getting back, I move it to damage and it keep heading to Drones Bay.
Once it arrives, I move another drone from the Hangar out.

It is always good to have a few Amarr drones out since they can take down EM shields faster.


The Sentry drones are not causing more damage but can hit further and are harder to damage and destroy,

More so since they both do exactly 64 HP of damage in their respective branch(es).


Edit @ 10:07:
Server Shut down in less than 1 hour at 11 AM for I don't know how long 'cuz I close the pop up before I could read 25% of it.
I did a level 1 mission in my field (SOE) and went to buy a new Mobile Tractor Unit (MTU).
I would have tried a level 2 mission but I may not have the time to do another level 1.
I did that level 2 in Algos and forgot the 5 drones on site apparently (going to reconnect to them back).


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Edit 2:
The Algos only has 7 drones, a few medium and only 2 or 3 small.
However, I had enough to have 2 drones left in the Ready section (of which I had 7).
Only 1 is damaged, a Valkyrie, it costs fraction to repair.
I might be able to fix them with drones or Orca.

I have 55km range and more coming up shortly.

I use medium drones since they do more damage and have more HP.
I also use heavy drones especially against cruiser and higher level targets.

I managed to reconnect to my lost drones.
I'm now going 1 jump to get salvager while I dropped the MTU.
Should be done in a few.


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Edit @ 10:21:
This is where I need the Cap booster for the destroyer.
Actually, it wasn't required.
It turned out that the 1MN MWD took more energy than the Salvager that round.


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Edit 2:
900k loot from level 1 Gone Berserk.
It took me about 1 hour though and I might have the time to check my PI though it's 19 or 23 jumps away.
No way I will fly this with 5 mins left before there is 5 minutes left (5 minutes left before half of 10 minutes left starts)...

Thanks o7 going to try a worm that has drones faster, almost as tough and more dps than this guy's Harpy. One day try a Gecko. Those seem badass.

I fire at 100-120km with Bouncers in my Domi (used to be 150km before the OMNI nerf) in level IVs.
My Rattlesnake I tend to fire at 50 to 100km.

Blitzed some level 3s recently with the Rattler to balance some standings, only took a couple of minutes per mission. The rattlesnake Gecko is pretty much invulnerable in 3s but does have trouble hitting the fast stuff. With Faction Cruise you lose ISK but that's not a big issue. If I did 3s in a Rattler regularly would probably fit Rapid Heavies instead.

Given that you are caldari, you should have no such thing as "Hard mission" as long as size of your missiles match the enemies encountered.
When in doubts, use this guide: http://hussars-online.ru/4images/data/media/15/control_panel_updated.jpg

I just did or almost completed
Intercept The Saboteurs, level 3

which gave me a -2.08 Amarr standing however.

I am keeping note of it here (or elsewhere) as I couldn't find info on it in my threads before.


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Edit:
The Score, Level 3 (Angel Cartel)
4.62