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Zornia Estemaire
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-04-13 03:31:33 UTC
I am doing this mission for 4th time. But this time with my new pilot and I have never had to do soooo much jumping ever before. So far I have had at least 4 miissions of 9 jumps or more. But this last one was simple ridiculous. For the mission "Brothers and Sisters Objective" where you have to return to Sister Alitura it is a 24 jump trek! Normally this mission is for somewhat new pilots so why all these long jumps.
Orlacc
#2 - 2012-04-13 05:05:14 UTC
Zornia Estemaire wrote:
I am doing this mission for 4th time. But this time with my new pilot and I have never had to do soooo much jumping ever before. So far I have had at least 4 miissions of 9 jumps or more. But this last one was simple ridiculous. For the mission "Brothers and Sisters Objective" where you have to return to Sister Alitura it is a 24 jump trek! Normally this mission is for somewhat new pilots so why all these long jumps.



It is same as ever. If you are doing it a 4th time you should know that. They want newbs to get a sense of how big EVE is I guess.

"Measure Twice, Cut Once."
Mirima Thurander
#3 - 2012-04-13 05:20:51 UTC
you know i started that mission and never finished it because of all the back and forth running it made you do

All automated intel should be removed from the game including Instant local/jumps/kills/cynos for all systems/regions.Eve should report nothing like this to the client/3rd party software.Intel should not be force fed to players. Player skill and iniative should be the sources of intel.
Louis deGuerre
The Dark Tribe
#4 - 2012-04-13 13:21:45 UTC
It's as much a sightseeing tour as a tutorial.

I enjoyed it a lot except the bit where I was getting killed horribly as I was in FW in the time and the enemy bastards were waiting at the mission objectives. Well played guys, well played PirateBlink
Jouron
Hadon Shipping
#5 - 2012-04-13 15:36:20 UTC
The point of that is to get you to do **** for the four different empires gives you a minor standings boost.
Lyron-Baktos
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-04-13 15:55:13 UTC
Jouron wrote:
The point of that is to get you to do **** for the four different empires gives you a minor standings boost.


are you sure? I just did this and I don't recall getting any standing boost until the very end and only for the faction I chose in the final part
Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#7 - 2012-04-13 17:24:52 UTC
Lyron-Baktos wrote:
Jouron wrote:
The point of that is to get you to do **** for the four different empires gives you a minor standings boost.


are you sure? I just did this and I don't recall getting any standing boost until the very end and only for the faction I chose in the final part


Probably more about mitigating potential standings losses by balancing out the areas it takes you in case you're sticking some L1s in on the side as you travel around.

The SOE epic can be reset every 6 (or possibly 12? I forget) months, by the way, for any new players that don't know that yet. Since it gives a fairly substantial boost to standing with a single empire without hurting the others, it's great for, say, pulling your Caldari faction back up over -0.5 so they don't harass you, or maintaining your mission-running status in high sec so you can hang with high-sec friends despite normally living in low/NPC null.
Ettu Brute II
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-04-13 17:48:51 UTC
Lost Greybeard wrote:
The SOE epic can be reset every 6 (or possibly 12? I forget) months, by the way, for any new players that don't know that yet.

I'm fairly sure it can be done every 3 months.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#9 - 2012-04-13 18:17:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Ettu Brute II wrote:
Lost Greybeard wrote:
The SOE epic can be reset every 6 (or possibly 12? I forget) months, by the way, for any new players that don't know that yet.

I'm fairly sure it can be done every 3 months.

I'm completely certain it is every 3 months Big smile CCP Dropbear stated so:

http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1214016&page=1#3

Other useful links:

Epic Mission Arcs: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Epic_mission_arcs
The Blood-Stained Stars: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/The_Blood-Stained_Stars
Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#10 - 2012-04-13 18:31:18 UTC
Ettu Brute II wrote:
I'm fairly sure it can be done every 3 months.


Excellent. I may go do that again, then.
Lyron-Baktos
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-04-13 19:48:01 UTC
At connections IV, I got a .66 increase when I did mine. Not a very big increase
Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#12 - 2012-04-13 20:02:50 UTC
Lyron-Baktos wrote:
At connections IV, I got a .66 increase when I did mine. Not a very big increase


Generally speaking I use it to boost my _bad_ standings, not my good ones. So it tends to be a much larger chunk for me.

(Since this is the new player forum: This is because standings loss is always a percentage of the difference between your current standing and -10, and standing gain is always a percentage of the difference between your current standing and +10. So the more positive your standing with a given faction, the more losses hurt and the less gains help. Likewise, the more negative your faction, the more gains help and the less losses hurt.)