Missions & Complexes

How can I find out what corporation or faction will give me a particular mission? For example, if I want to run Level 4 "Massive Assault" versus Minmatar, who gives it out? I haven't found any web sites that have that info nor any way to find it in game.

That's not really how it works, though there are some things you can do to increase the chance for certain types of missions being offered. Agents pick from a small pool of missions that are generated when you first meet them, though exactly how that list is generated has been at best a mystery the Devs have yet to shed much light on. What scant little information on this is often speculative and rumor, rather than confirmed.

Picking agents between organizations, such as a military corporations = higher chance for rival anti-faction missions

Picking agents with certain storyline agents as nearest = more chance for that storyline agent's mission type (security agent = combat missions, distributions agent = crap missions, mining agent = other crap missions)

Picking region = higher chance for that region's local pirates being the target for combat missions, example missions offered in Kador tend to be against Blood Raiders, while other regions in Amarr tend to be against Nation targets.

Consistently declining undesirable missions and accepting (and COMPLETING) desired missions seems to affect a hidden stat for that agent, increasing slightly the chance that they offer you the missions you like and decreasing the chances they offer you the one's you dislike. This "milking" is likely tied to their individual standings towards you, as you complete missions with them they tend to over time gravitate towards the missions you seem to like most. Please note, I have noticed over the years that the random mission list agents generate seem to periodically reset and start over, as I've had agents suddenly offer missions that I've never seen before and cease offering missions I've accepted and completed for them hundreds of times.

There maybe other factors, but you simply cannot expect any agent to give you an exact mission and target type, you can only simply do things to better enure that missions generally similar to that one are more frequently offered.

Trick question. There is no mission called "Massive Assault".

But there is a mission called "The Assault" and one called "Massive Attack" and they both have minmatar variants according to eve survival. I don't think I ever recall seeing these v minmatar, so I want to say these might be given by the angels pirate faction. (Or maybe caldari space, don't have a mission setup going on there either)

All I did was give a basic example without jumping into a lot of speculation and theory crafting. As I stated in my initial reply :



In the past I've posted my observations about what affects agent mission offers. Needless to say it was rebuked by a few people who said I was trying to place a rational pattern to a completely random mechanic. Of course I disagreed with them to no avail.

According to my observations, I get the impression the type of mission encounters (Anti-Empire or Anti-Pirate) offered from an agent is dictated by a few different aspects.

1) Agent Effective Standing - as agent standing increases, that agent will offer more of the same type of missions that were previously accepted and completed by the player.

2) Faction Standings - negative Factions listed in the players character sheet forms the base pool from which the encounter missions are offered.

3) Agent Location - agents located near enemy Faction borders seem to offer more Anti-Empire Faction encounter missions compared to agents located deep inside secure space who seem to offer more Anti-Pirate Faction encounter missions.

I have well over +7.00 standing with the main 4 Empire Factions and rarely ever get offered any Anti-Empire Faction encounter missions. I get offered Anti-Pirate Faction encounter missions well above 95% of the time. In fact the only time I actually get offered Anti-Empire encounter missions is when I first start working with a new agent. I always decline those missions and after a while the 3 aspects I listed above seem to take over.

I have no proof or graph to show. The above is purely conjecture based on observations of my standings, agent locations, mission offers and transaction logs.

I will state that in my experience the NPC Military Corps seem to offer more Anti-Empire Faction encounter missions than what NPC Civilian Corps do. Also the Gallente Faction agents tend to offer a higher percentage of Anti-Empire Faction encounter missions compared to the other Empire Factions.


DMC

Thanks everyone. I was afraid there wasn't an easy way to tell. I've done a lot of missions in Amarr and Khanid space, and much as I would like, I get few dedicated anti-Minmatar missions. I do get Enemies Abound which is mostly Gallente and only one of the 5 in the series versus Minmatar.

And yes, I mistyped. Should have been Massive Attack in my example. For Massive Attack, almost always I get it versus Sansha. Rarely, it'll be versus Blood Raiders. I've never seen it against Minmatar, but someone asked for help in channel for that version and I was like: "What? Yes, yes, yes! Where are you?!?!" Apparently I scared them off, they never answered so I didn't find out who they were running for. :(