Missions & Complexes

Some time back, CCP changed how our agents work. The combat oriented ones would no longer give couriers, and the courier related ones would no longer give combat. They regrouped ALL agents into Securtiy, Distribution, and Mining. They then only gave missions related their respective fields. The Storyline Agents followed suit. So i thought...

In theory, a "security" agent gives combat missions, and "distribution" agent gives couriers, so, why then have my last 5 storylines been opposite of the Agent's field?

I know the tricks and tips to get story's from particular targeted Agents, that is not my problem. My problem is that i go through the hassle to make sure i get a story from a "security" agent, only to have them give me a run-of-the-mill courier is rather frustrating.

My recent efforts seem to point to the Story Agents giving a mission based on the % of type of the previous 15 missions completed to earn the story.

Can anyone confirm or deny this? And is this as CCP intended? If so, why give the Story agents a classification at all?

From what I have understood agent field doesn't count, but the type of missions you did before the storyline.

Staying in the same systems I have the same agent that gives me storyline missions.
It just depends of where you did the 16th: the storyline agent will be the closest available.

About the type of storyline missions, if you did 16 security missions your chances of getting a security storyline are much higher than a courrier one.
At the opposite if you do only courrier missions.

If you are not lucky you will get one these awful "materials for war preparation".

There are some constellations where you're guarenteed to work for a Security storyline, even then they have you doing stupid non combat stuff.. like hauling frogs -.-

This.

It's completely random. For me, over the last year and a half or so it's been 20% Materials for War Prep, 80% divided between security and distribution storyline missions. I only ever run security regular missions.

Out of all the storylines ive done, I think Materials for war prep takes up way more than 50%. Especially when doing L4s. In general I have experienced getting more income from doing L3 storylines (but only the storyline, not the regular missions) than I have from L4s.

Really frustrating, but I guess this is how CCP wants it to be, though I still dont understand why a combat mission runner suddenly have to find a mining ship, and vice versa.

And what happened to all these "new" storylines that CCP added this past year? I haven't seen a single one...unless it was Materials for War...which i get more often than not.

Make two trips in a DST?

That's "Cargo Delivery" iirc, which is the only Distribution SL that actually pays out max standings. I'd never decline that one.

lol!

DST=Deep Space Transport - one of the T2 hauler classes.

Welp. Looks like I may have a new one.

Can find no info about it.

Sorry for the boilerplate, but I'm gonna paste the info window here:
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A Desperate Rescue

Earlier today, a small, unknown group of frigates attacked one of our remote signals intelligence (SIGINT) communications outposts, causing catastrophic damage and killing dozens of our personnel. This station belonged to a small Caldari corporation with a poorly hidden contractual link to our military intelligence services. Fortunately, the survivors managed to escape, via their high-speed emergency shuttle and are expected to arrive at a nearby station within the hour.

As you might expect, we are working hard to determine the identities of the aggressors, but as yet we have no solid leads. Of course, this is not your concern. What is your concern, should you choose to help us, is a report we just received indicating that the surviving team of SIGINT contractors have been targeted for immediate assassination by the same mysterious organization behind the outpost attack. Apparently, someone does not want these individuals to provide us with whatever information they must have obtained during the course of their recent duties.

Within the last few hours, we intercepted a poorly encrypted communication indicating that a covert hit squad is en route to the station aboard an unspecified vessel, or may actually be at the station already! This station’s security force, while well armed and highly trained, is insufficient to detect and defeat the kind of lethal operatives that we believe intend to kill our contractors. Therefore, we need you to rescue this team immediately and bring them back to us for an emergency debriefing and to ensure their safety.

After running a check of qualified pilots in our office database, your name was near the top of the list. We estimate there will only be sufficient time for this one rescue attempt before the assassins strike.


A Desperate Rescue Objectives
The following objectives must be completed to finish the mission:

Transport Objective
Transport these goods:
Cargo 25 x Group of Civilian SIGINT Contractors (7500.0 m³)
Rewards The following rewards will be yours if you complete this mission:

501,000 ISK

Bonus Rewards
The following rewards will be awarded to you as a bonus if you complete the mission within 50 minutes
474,000 ISK


Caldari SIGINT Outpost Network
The Caldari Navy, much like the military services of other races, operates a covert network of signals intelligence outposts along the borders of the Caldari State. The specific, primary mission of these stations is to provide advance early warning of any hostile incursion by the Gallente military. Beyond this vital mission, however, the outposts are also tasked with gathering intelligence on a wide variety of other targets, both military and civilian. Of particular interest is the regular provision of information on the movement of the commercial and industrial fleets of other races, given the competition between the Caldari corporate system and foreign companies. In this way, the outposts not only provide an essential early warning system for any hostile forces, but also provide data of immense economic value, thus better enabling the Caldari private business sector to better compete in the merciless realm of interstellar business.

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It's just a Courier so maybe that's why I cannot find info about it. May not be new.

Actually, on average, the combat stories yield much higher standings gains than the couriers, much higher. Then there is that whole, chance at the Mining Mindlink thing...