EVE New Citizens Q&A

I've done very few missions and wanted to ask if story missions come in flavors (mining, distro, security, etc.) the same way normal missions do?

It's early days, but I've been doing some missions recently, and exclusively Security ones. I have had four 'storyline missions' pop up and every single one has been a Distribution mission, exactly as Lilith Folkvadr describes.

mats for war pops up a lot, given there are 5 versions of it. I almost always run them as it is a quick trip in a travel ceptor and at ~20m a pop not bad.

I get a bunch of courier ones, I usually just ignore them. if I could fly a blockade runner I'd probably do most of them, but in a t1 hauler I just cba. If you need the standings you can fit a t1 industrial for rather quick warps, decent warp speed, and some ehp, I just don't really need the standings that bad.

the combat ones show up more often now as it seems CCP has added a bunch of them in the last few years. they give the best standing rewards by far. Although half the time I ignore them too. Usually better to just keep blitzing, rather than go a bunch of jumps for whatever. but again the standing rewards are nice so I do a few of them to keep my standings high.

Storyline agents have types just like every other agent.

People that are getting Materials for War Preparation every time, for instance, have a distribution subtype agent for the most part. If you're annoyed by this or just want most of your storyline missions to involve shooting stuff, look up storyline agents with the Security type, then you have to find an L4 (or Lwhatever you're doing) agent for the same overall empire for whom that storyline agent is the nearest storyline agent.

That's actually how which story agent asks your help is determined, where you are in space when it's issued (aka when you turn in the normal mission that triggers it), which faction that normal mission is for, and which storyline agent is closest.

This is why when I used to work for Federal Security because it was close to low-sec, all my storylines were Aliastra, that one L4 story agent was the shortest auto-path route to the station I got my security missions.

EDIT: if you don't know how the categories work, technically any agent can give you any mission compatible with the corp but the probabilities are changed. You'll still get materials for war sometimes with security story guys.

EDIT 2: You are also correct in that you shouldn't do story missions if you want to avoid dropping opposed empire faction. That said, losing opposed empire faction isn't usually that big a deal unless you're also missioning for them.

Faction Standings ?

Check out the 'Faction Standing Repair Plan' thread.





DMC

You get a 2 Run BPC when you get high standings? :D

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Cosmos_faction_ship_offers

explains about the faction ship bpc.

I've run hundreds of missions over the past year or so for the sole purpose of raising standing for several of my characters.

1. Each chain in the career missions has a storyline mission at the end - make sure you run them.
2. The SOE Epic Arc will grant 8% standing boost for the faction of your choice with no derived loss for their opponent. Recommended and can be run every 3 months to repair standing. http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/The_Blood-Stained_Stars
3. Level 3 missions are best for standing. If you have completed the career missions and the epic arc you will be close to qualifying.
4. Train social and connections to at least level 3. Use LP to buy skillbooks for security connections, distribution connections etc... if you intend to mission as a career.
5. Find a spot with basic agents and storyline agents for the same NPC corp either in the same station or within a couple of jumps - http://eve-agents.com/ is very helpful.
6. Avoid missions that involve killing other empire factions - you will take a major standing hit with them. Stick to killing pirates or drones.
7. Use http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=HomePage to learn about the mission before you run it.
8. Have fun.

No really. Mining storyline agent can give combat mission. CCP changed few patch ago. Any storyline agent gives random storyline mission.

Props for being the only peep who answered my question. Thank you. I'll just ignore all the story missions. I'm not in any hurry so I don't mind losing the giant standing increases for native faction. Relevant skills are already maxed out.
Thank you too for prompting me to hunt down those 4 decimal place numbers. I poked and prodded the ui until i forced that info out of it. They gave me exactly the knowledge I needed.

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