Missions & Complexes

I've been playing over 2 years, and have never heard of or witnessed Declining Missions having any affect on the recurrence of any particular mission in any manner.

The same ones have always come up, whether declined or not.

After a full year, I still get the exact same Low Sec Couriers from Ammatar Fleet.

No change in missions or frequency of offerings at all.

IF reality is different, would be great to find that Dev blog alluded to.............

Yup. Always happens in threads beginning with "I remember reading somewhere..................."

It's not worth worrying about.

If you don't like the agents and missions there.............MOVE.

There are HUNDREDS of Corps and even MORE Agents.

Sigh. I'm not saying you're wrong this time. I'm stating that you're vocal on one side of the fence and I haven't seen it myself -- but that you've offered up a reason why that might be. I've also asserted that no one has statistically valid proof one way or another.

Anyhow, no attack intended. I was actually hoping you would come out of the woodwork and give an answer yourself. This wasn't what I had hoped for.

Back a while ago a Dev Blog was released, one of CCP's workarounds to help ease the stress on server nodes and reduce lag was having regular agents send mission runners to nearby systems that had the lowest population count. Another change CCP did to the agents was for them not to offer the same exact mission twice in a row.

So basically the way it's supposed to work: If the nearby system with the lowest population count happens to be low sec, that would be the mission location and the agent would not offer the same exact mission twice in a row, back to back.

However, due to all the recent changes, patches, fixes, etc., nobody can say if that is indeed the case now.

As for you question - Does declining those missions over time result in them not being offered again? No



Zhilia Mann is mistaken for referencing me or my viewpoint to your particular situation since it doesn't even apply.

More importantly, I no longer care to deal with all the flak generated by various players demanding I show official proof to support my statements..I have no proof, no statistics or graph to show. My theory is purely conjecture based from my own personal experience due to viewing my standings, skills and mission transaction logs. Some players may disagree and some may agree with the theory, depends on their own experiences.

The theory does include declining specific missions but mainly it's about how high standings may affect agent mission offers pertaining to Anti-Empire verses Anti-Pirate missions. The basic premise has 2 parts:

1) Faction Standings - negative standings listed in the character sheet of the player forms the base pool from which the encounter missions are randomly offered.

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

Ran Level 4 Security for Wyirkomi for 12+ months, and there was no adjustment in the frequency of any Mission offerings at all.

What, in your super-secret data conjecturing, has you thinking this is otherwise ?

I too can SWEAR I saw 5 Abbadons fly past me shooting sparkly rainbows for Engine Trails, claim to have no proof, yet continue to post ALL about it.