EVE New Citizens Q&A

First things first: T3 means "Tech 3", which is an advanced ship type, so you're asking about level 3 missions.

For mission both the cyclone and hurricane are just fine, anyone telling they're bad... is bad and should probably not be listened to. Generally people who will tell you that lack any sort of actual knowledge but just spout tired old memes based on outdated/fictional "facts", they're ignorant and bad.

What you need to learn above anything else is damage types and resists, if you do missions in Minmatar space you'll mostly run into Minmatar based NPC which (as it's Minnie racial damage type) do explosive and some kinetic, with some traces of the others. Shield has very good native explosive and kin resists while armour has very bad native explosive and kinetic resists. So if you do missions in Minmatar space then you're best off to shield tank your ships, which is great for minnie because they're quite good at it.

Here's a template for a good lvl 3 fit, upgrade with better mods where you can.

[Hurricane, lvl 3 - angels - template]
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Beta Reactor Control: Shield Power Relay I
Beta Reactor Control: Shield Power Relay I
Beta Reactor Control: Shield Power Relay I

10MN Afterburner I
Large Shield Extender II
Explosive Deflection Field I
Adaptive Invulnerability Field I

650mm Artillery Cannon I, Fusion M
650mm Artillery Cannon I, Fusion M
650mm Artillery Cannon I, Fusion M
650mm Artillery Cannon I, Fusion M
650mm Artillery Cannon I, Fusion M
650mm Artillery Cannon I, Fusion M
Small Tractor Beam I

Medium Core Defense Field Purger I
Medium Core Defense Field Purger I
Medium Core Defense Field Purger I


Warrior I x6

Thanks, that's what I was looking for. And yea, I was reffereing to Level 3 missions.

I'm doing the Epic sisters Arc, and I don't know what to do after that.. lol. I want to start doing Level 2 missions on my cruiser, any tips on where to start?

if you look closely you will notice that everything else is *gasp* also T2. i trust OP to be competent enough to find the meta module equivalents of all the T2 modules i put on there.

look around for a good system to mission in. you may want to visit eve-agents.com and then filter accordingly. good systems should have the following features:
- low security status (preferably 0.5 or 0.6).
- more than one security lvl2 agent in the same station, so that you can accept more than one mission at once.
- the corporation you are running for has a 'good' LP store. (this is a science in and of itself).
- the local pirate faction should align well with your weapon system and tank. for a shield tanked rupture that would be angels but since projectile weapons can switch ammo types, you can also run against other factions.
- no lowsec systems nearby.
- preferably a storyline agent nearby.
- other things that i may have forgotten to mention.

You're avoiding the issue, and the issue is "what point is there showing a newbie who clearly has zero understanding of the game (which is fine and to be expected) a fit with mods he can't use nor aren't needed, even if he'd use meta gear would never be able to fit due to massive PG issues because of low fitting skills. And then sprinkle that with T2 rigs and faction ammo".

I'm not questioning your effort or intent, I'm just saying that if you want to help a newbie then you'll have to use his perspective, lack of knowledge and capabilities as a yard stick.

Lets assume fairly standard skills: Shield upgrades 4, engineering 4, no AWU. Your double LSE fit won't work even if switched to meta 4. If you want to put in the effort to reply to a newbie question, put in the effort to link a fit that's relevant.

I honestly don't understand why you're defending your stance in this. Either way, enough off topic.

the higher the agent level the higher standings with the agents corporation or faction you need to talk to that agent. for example if you want to talk to a lvl2 agent of the republic fleet corporation, you will need at least 1.0 standings with republic fleet or the minmatar republic. for a lvl3 agent, you need 3.0, 5.0 for lvl4 and 7.0 for lvl5.
an easy way to get your standings up quickly is to train social skills like Connections.

edit: there are exceptions to this rule. storyline agents will not talk to you unless you are referred to them (you will get a notification in your mail) and faction warfare agents will only talk to you if you join the respective faction's militia. this is not as relevant though, as you will be primarily focusing on 'normal' security agents.

sec status of the system the agent is in only affects isk and LP rewards, not standing. And as you're only going to be doing lvl 2s for a short while till you move on to lvl 3 missions you could decide to not bother putting in the effort and just "pick one". The thing about missions is that any issues you might have at lower lvl are of no importance, as long as the lvl 4 agents you'll have access to are good.

You're just "racing" to lvl 4s and it's probably not worth it to slow down wasting time & effort on picking specific agents along the way. Note that deciding on what NPC corp to use hinges on many things; profitable LP store, good storyline agent nearby your lvl 4 agent and good lvl 4 agents in the first place. Thing is that if you ask people, in help chat for instance, what to choose they inevitably tell you to pick one of the navies because... uhm... well just because! In reality the navies are probably the worst to choose.

A large portion of mission income comes from the LP store and it takes time, effort and a lot of cross referencing to figure out which NPC corp has the best LP store. That's why many mission runners don't actually do amazing isk/hour because they never bothered. But as EVE is player driven the market prices change all the time so what might be good now might not be good later on, but you can state that whatever everyone else does is probably not going to be very profitable, because.... every else does it already.

Generally you'll want to be looking at the 5 run BPC for faction damage mods and stuff like that, but it only takes one clown to do that as well who agrees to low profit and... you're back to square one.

Make use of this website, also this one and cross reference goodies with the ingame market. So you need to find a corp with good lvl 4 agents, preferably in a .5 system with storyline agent nearby and not too close to low sec, while having speciality good in the store which actually sell for good profit :) And ppl who found one obviously won't tell you as they don't want the competition or they'll actually put you on the wrong path.

So, lots of checking to do :)