EVE New Citizens Q&A

Yes you can be probed out in mission pockets.
You can run them while spamming D-scan and look for (combat) probes on it.
If you see them you warp to a safe spot (or bounce multiple safe spots) and wait for them to move out.

I'm not aware that you can run any pirate mission in low sec. I had a quick look at eve-agents.com and see several Angel Agents in level -0.1 and -0.2 systems, these are negative null sec, not low sec which show as 0.1 and 0.2

For the following explanation, I'm assuming you want to run Angel missions for the purpose of grinding up faction and then farming LP. You are going to be fairly static in a handful of systems and want to avoid PvP.

Trying to grind up standing with pirate factions in null is hard work. Your best bet is to join a corp/alliance that is already running them and let them pull you through their L4 missions until your standing is high enough to run them yourself. They will give you all the ins and outs of running missions in null sec.

Basically you need to run them in areas full of blues, otherwise you will get probed out and killed repeatidly, camped into stations and killed on gates. Null is too crowded nowadays to ninja run missions under the noses of hostile alliances. You might get away with it for a few missions, but you will soon get fed up having to dock or safe up repeatidly while the locals are actively hunting you. Instead you need to be one of the locals and then just watch out for the roaming gang and soloist. Hopeful, your alliance will have a good intel channel to give you pre-warning, but you still have to watch that channel and local like a hawk.

Running D-Scan to see if combat probes are out is an option, but it is poor advice. When running NPC missions, you should be getting safe as soon as a hostile/neutral comes in local and just assume that they are using probes, you don't need to see them on D-Scan. If you wait to see probes, they will find and bookmark your mission and then come back into system 10 minutes later and warp straight to it. You won't see any probes the second time around.

If you are in a pipe that sees a lot of through traffic of neutrals, you might want to risk it. One option is to cloak up an alt off the mission in gate and run your mission runner off as soon as something lands. Use your D-Scan on short scan, from your alt, say 25,000,000 Kms just looking for incoming ships. Use a ranged ship too, so that you can just get into a room and immediately align out. Then stay aligned.

If there isn't a dockable station or friendly POS in systems, you should consider fitting a cloak to your ship. If you don't like the penatlies of having a cloak, you need to set up a host of safe spots and keep bouncing around them when people are in system trying to probe you out. Don't sit in your safe spots waiting to see combat probes on your D-Scan, stay in warp constantly between them and when a serious probing team is looking for you, keep dropping new bookmarks as you warp and avoid returning to the same safe spots. After 15 minutes from your last aggressive action, if they are still looking for you, log off.

A second account running a cloaky alt is almost a necessity if you're running missions solo in null. That in turn requires a dual screen set up to be effective.

While Major Trant has some good points, from personal experience he's being overly pessimistic. While joining an established corp/alliance in the area makes your life easier, it's by no means mandatory. I spent a solid several months running angel missions in Curse with two or three corp mates - when we came out, we had no blues in the area, and had no problem grinding up standings and then running missions. Usual rules of null apply - always scout gates, watch for bubbles, have BM's above/below stations and gates, etc.

Most of the time I was lazy about scouting gates so I only ran missions in my one system (had two or three lvl IV Angel agents there, I believe), using a pvp fit BS and a cloaky logistics (if I thought I might be probed and get a chance at some kills) or a single t3 if the alt was off somewhere else. Watching dscan I had plenty of time to get out of any mission before I was probed, and occasionally had chances to bait and kill solo players or small gangs coming after me. Don't bother leaving a mission as soon as a neutral comes in - even if you somehow miss probes on dscan, burn off the warpin and stay aligned and getting out is pretty trivial if you're paying attention.

After awhile we worked out blue standings with some people in the area after killing some some mutual pewing, but that was more to expand our PvP options in the area than to make running missions safer. I don't think I lost a single ship running missions over the course of several months, and I got pretty careless at times.

You do realise that the 2 or 3 corp mates that you are running the missions with are 'blues in the area' to you?

lol - sorry my bad!

So you are saying that with a NBSI policy I can shoot corp mates

You can be scanned down while in a mission site in low-sec and null-sec (same goes for High-sec, really), but generally, in my experience, it's a lot safer to run missions or Unknown Signatures in low-sec than running the anomalies, solely because whoever wants you dead will have to scan you down first, and your D-scan can reveal the probes for you. It's still quite possible to do missions in low-sec despite the danger of being scanned down.

The biggest dangers you need to worry about are Gate-camps. Once you make it through those, you should be fine as long as you keep updating your D-scan every other moment.

I ran angel missions in curse for a while with one of my alts. Your best bet would be to join one of the alliances/corps living there that own one of the small pockets where you can log missions. Otherwise getting in and out of your mission station itself is going to be irregular as they will probably be camping the undock at least part of the time trying to kill you. Its not personal. Neutrals are fair game anywhere in null sec and people take every opportunity that they can to kill them.

Yes. Missions can be probed out. However. There is good news. Many of the missions that you log can be "blitzed." Blitzing is what mission runners call it when you run a mission by not killing everything but just racing in to do the mission objective part and skipping all of the rest. If you look at the mission reports web sides you will notice that most missions have a short blitz this mission segment where it explains how to bypass everything you dont need to do.

The objective (for most people) in nullsec missioning is to gain loyalty points with the faction in question. Those loyalty points are where the money is. In the case of angels you probably are planning on buying blue prints for cynabols and dramiels to make money. Thats what most of the mission runners for angels use their lp on and it can make good money.

I havent been in curse for a while. I dont know who the major players are there any more. When i was last there russians and small corps/alliances seemed to dominate the place. Every little pocket had its own group controlling it. This kind of makes it important to find out who is controlling the places where most of the level 4 agents are. Of course, you could just do it on your own. I did. It is possible. But you will have to deal with occasionally be camped or occasionally warping out of your mission when you see combat probes on scan.