Missions & Complexes

everything depends on LP exchange rate. Do the math.

Thank you Tsukino Stareine for answering my question,
And thank you Kiwis23 for nothing.

A few days ago I was thinking about the same thing and was meaning to ask a similar question on the forums.
I am/was interested in concrete numbers so I decided to do a test: "Whats the absolute most isk I can make with L4s if I played like a zombie". Note: this is not recommended for your health.

So I did two sessions (highsec) and used the journal data to get a figure: result

Session one was 77.2 minutes and netted 42,751,651 isk/hr in bounties and mission rewards.
Session two was 121.65 minutes and netted 45,907,494.94 isk/hr in bounties and mission rewards.

Loot was salvaged on a second character "ONLY when possible," that means if the primary character had to have idle time (traveling, from/to the agent, etc). LP obviously goes on top of it. If that wasn't in the mix I think I could make a few mil more/hr but that loot is worth more.

In terms of pure isk income I doubt you can do much better (though I would love to be proven wrong).
In terms of fun gameplay lets just say I'm not going to play it that way ever again. Its an extremely un-fun way to play the game. It needs way too much concentration and those 1-2 hour sessions are the max time I'm willing to spend in a session of eve.

If someone else has similar concrete data they would like to share on other activities it would be nice.

Cheers!

No as I mentioned pure ISK income from the agent and bounties. LP and salvage are substantiation but obviously harder to liquidate. Though I should have mentioned I decline faction missions for the standing hit.

That means my runs have higher 'pure isk' numbers and lower loot value.

I wasn't keeping track of the exact LP or loot value though from memory the isk estimate in the inventory window for the two sessions overall was somewhere between 150-250 mil but I'd take that estimate with a grain of salt as the estimate is usually inflated (depending on the region you are in and how items are priced there).

A mate made a statistic out of .. 200(?) missions he had flown.
I can't remember the excat numbers by head.
The conclusion was ~50k LP/h.

If you want to know the exact number write me a mail.

Maybe it depends on agent/faction/region/system but I run L4s for an agent in 0.5 system and really really small fraction is in lowsec. And by that I mean for nearly 50 missions I run on weekend only 2 or 3 were in lowsec. And out of those 1 was storyline and others were some I would not run anyway.

Which mission are you running ?

Last time I've chained Enemies Abound 3/5, I got arround 50 mil in loot/salvage in about 25 minutes (CNR @ arround 800 DPS).

Guess you can do it in 15 with a mach.

It all depends on your skills, the missions you do, the system your agent is in, the LP conversation ratio, blitzing or not, looting or not.. --> to much variables in there, but 40 mil/ hour with the right missions, looting and salvaging but without LP seems reasonable - atleast that's close to what I did with one BS and a noctis-alt. Obviously, all that LP I got turned into nice iskies would have bumped that.

Find a level 4 agent in a dead-end 0.5 system.

Most of the time it's because people claim 2 : 1 or better conversion ratio on loyalty points to isk, while constantly blitzing only the most profitable missions at close to impossible speed, flying a 15B pimped out faction battleship or tengu. Often it's nothing more then epeen flexing form "hardcore" mission runners, who see the lvl 4 isk/time ratio as a direct indication of now good they are at playing eve, and they like to think they make 2-3 times as much as anyone else.