Missions & Complexes

This is a realistic take on how much ISK/hour you can potentially make in non-SoE hubs. This was a standard Empire corporation agent in a 0.6 system (V social skills).
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TLDR.
133.2m ISK/hour accepting standard Lv4 and Team Burner missions
62.2m ISK/hour (approximate) running standard Lv4 missions only
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This is a twist on the guide that Anize Oramara advocates. I'm not utilizing SoE agents, so the agent rewards as well as ISK/LP conversion are substantially less. I accept any Lv4 mission that comes up, shooting everything and looting only where it's either worthwhile or can fit into time constraints. I run a mostly T2 fit Golem Marauder with three Faction BCS. I utilize missile guidance computers because I don't need the extra damage application from target painters as I'm now using NPC-immune Augmented Hornets to take out anything smaller than cruisers. Salvaging is via a pair of T2 small tractor beams and 'Packrat' MTU.

I only accept Team Burner missions because I can run these perfectly with a cheap polarized Garmur fit (70m ISK investment, which pays for itself in 3-4 missions). There's almost no way to screw up the Team Burner missions with the Garmur, and I find that even declining all the other Burner missions I still get a fair number of Team Burner missions (as evidenced below). I'm averaging a Faction drop approximately 1:5 Team Burner missions.

Since I've been keeping track, thus far I've snagged 2x Federation Navy Drone Navigation Computers (275m ISK each), a Federation Navy Small Plasma Smartbomb (6m ISK) and an Imperial Navy Armor Explosive Hardener (35.1m ISK). Not bad for only about 1-2 hours worth of actual Team Burner missions...

The high-grade Ascendancy and Zainou missile implants lend themselves well to both the Golem and Garmur, particularly the Garmur as it helps reduce mission time for Team Burner missions (typically 5-6 jumps out).

Anyone claiming to be consistently making more than 60m ISK/hour (especially these 100m ISK/hour claims) with a single character in non-SoE high-sec hubs (even 0.5 systems) with anything other than a Marauder and accepting occasional Burner missions is full of sh*t. This includes Rattlesnakes, which I've tried (even with higher paper DPS, they're still slower). You can't make enough from blitzing Lv4s and converting LP, and Machariels aren't well-suited to tanking roles where you're going for bounties instead. You also can't hit this shooting and looting everything, because a lot of Lv4 missions aren't worth salvaging (Rogue drones, for example).

Marauders have near-perfect damage application and there is simply no faster way to shoot and loot (this includes returning with a Noctis, which actually takes longer). The Rattlesnake is good, but it can't compete with Marauders for ISK/hour.
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Ships Utilized:
Golem Marauder (4.46 AU/s), 1100 DPS (remote ECCM)
Garmur (8.11 AU/s), 238.5 DPS (T2 Polarized fit)

ISK start: 500k ISK
Salvage start: 0k ISK
LP start: 84,312

Missions Completed:
Team Burner (Hawk), 6 jumps ... 00:11:30 (elapsed) | salvage, 0.2k ISK
Damsel in Distress, 1 jump ... 00:25:30 (elapsed) | salvage, 16.2m ISK
Pirate Invasion, 0 jumps ... 00:42:30 (elapsed) | salvage, 2.6m ISK
Team Burner (Hawk), 4 jumps ... 00:52:00 (elapsed) | salvage, 0.16k ISK
Team Burner (Vengeance), 2 jumps ... 01:00:00 (elapsed) | salvage, 35.1mk ISK

Notes:
• Remote ECCM works flawlessly to keep drones immune from NPC aggro, so this really helps taking out smaller targets and ensures you never need to switch-out from Fury ammunition.
• Mission loot from Damsel was unusually high (it's typically ~10m in salvage)
• Vengeance Burner dropped an Imperial Navy Armor Explosive Hardener (35.1m ISK)
• I actually finished the last mission @ 00:59:50, but rounded up.

ISK end: 49.2m ISK
Salvage end: 54m ISK
LP end: 131,736

Mission Rewards and Bounties: 48.7m ISK
Salvage: 18.1m ISK (18.9m salvage sold to Jita buy orders)
LP Rewards: 66.4m ISK (47,424 LP @1400 ISK/LP)

Total ISK/hour: 133.2m ISK / 01:00:00
Total ISK/hour with Burner loot: 168.3m ISK / 01:00:00

Brings more to the forum than your posts that's for sure

That's why I specifically included an ISK/hour breakdown just running Lv4s (it's about half). I'm also not including Storyline missions or any of the 'Enemies' series, the latter where you can make about 250m ISK/2 hours without much difficulty. Burner missions come up often enough such that 2-4 an hour is fairly realistic.

They aren't included in the total ISK/hour - otherwise it would be closer to 170m ISK/hour.

Already sold the IN explosive hardener, but had to take a hit on the Fed drone navs, so yes - the estimated value compared to what you can sell it for can vary significantly. Again though, I'm not counting on or including these in the totals. They're an added bonus at this point - nothing more.

OP bought something of my selll order in Jita, waited a few minutes then sold it back to my buy order.

im +3m because of OP.

please factor into future threads!

faction drones x5, you mentioned augmented hornets ? why are they used to help against drone aggro?

EDIT: i bought one of production alts a marauder (paladin) to try l4's out for funsies, it's in 0.7 system Caldari space. the missions are deadset **** easy, its a nice change to be able to tab back to Jita market / production alts while doing l4s. rather than feel like im going to lose my ship any minute now (im used to wh PVE C4's mainly, but even that is just a hobby to my trading & production empire! )

i noticed the bottle neck to "looting" was the MTU (i use a regular one), being too slow, i know 2 of them fight each other, is this the reason you use 2 tractors on yours + packrat? i just sit there like a spaz with 3 salvagers salvaging things as they come in.

point/laugh if you want too lol.

Isn't there some info out there where the salvage drones are not as successful in salvaging than the Salvager I module? Or did they fix that?

This is pretty good. What I like about it is that it's a sustainable method. You're not really competing against anyone else.

It really depends on the mission. For example, on 'Enemies 5/5' you're waiting in 4-minute increments for waves anyway - so you might as well be utilizing a MTU and salvage drones set to auto-salvage. Damsel and Beserk are two other examples where you're semi-static. But for the most part I tend to agree - they're generally not desirable.