Crime & Punishment

So, i recently loaded up the mains and combat alts to do another Sec status grind, seemed to work okay last time, so figured since their getting shot at by navies again, i'd give it another go.

Loaded each main into a single room lvl 4 mission in neighboring systems that have alot of BS's....aggro'd everything, and brought the alts in kill one BS, then switch to other mission next door...rinse repeat. (last time i did this, it worked beautifully)

Until i noticed i was only getting boosts from one of the systems...

Finished that mission, got another, and yet again, no Sec boosts for killing the bountied NPC mission rats.

So, at that stage i figure CCP musta broke the code somewhere that gave some mission rats Sec boosts, and took it away from others...eventhough they all have bounties, and are the same flavor of rats found in the belts, just bigger.

So, i petitioned it, just to see if i would garner the good old, 'yup its broken, but let us know if there is anything else you need" response...and here it is...

"While some missions can give security status for NPC pirates not all are intended to do so and some will not normally give increases even though you may be facing the pirate factions. It is more consistent to gain security status from NPC pirates in places such as the asteroid belts. Using mission NPCs to raise it can work but it is not as consistent as a source of security status gains as you have seen. If you have any additional questions or matters we can assist with please let me know."

Sooo, random inconsistency is working as intended?

And yes, i know it seems 'inconsistent'....thats why i petitioned it, incase it was an oversight....but apparently, you want only random mission's to give sec boosts. It would be nice if anyone has a list of which missions actually give boosts currently. I now know of two that do NOT...Scarllett, and Duo. Cargo Delivery, however seemed to be working fine in this respect.

Wow.... this is taking a while, isn't it?

Mods are asleep! Post ponies!

Yes.... I will let them sleep.... *Holds up black sharpie*

The moderation is not up for discussion. Read the question again.

Worlds Collide won't give you any sec status, even though they're pirate factions. If you kill the web battery in The Blockade, you won't get any security increase for that tick, but it will work normally after that. Some other pirate faction missions will give you the tiny hit for a battlecruiser at the front gate, even if you kill a battleship in the next room, and some of them will not give you a hit in that tick if you kill a transport ship or structure.

It's far from random, but there's a lot of little things like these that make some missions better than others for grinding sec status. Recon 1/3 is my favourite -- 2 or 3 of those one jump apart, and it goes up very quickly.