EVE New Citizens Q&A

The choice is yours, agent missions can be quite a good source of income once you have the standings to run the higher level ones. You can safely turn down a mission from any particular agent every 4 hours without compromising your existing standings which is handy if you get one that involves killing NPCs that belong to one of the four main factions, you'll take a standings hit from the target faction concerned if you take these missions.

You'll find missions are good for raising standings with NPC corporations and factions, higher standings equals better missions, better refine rates on any mining you do, less tax on transactions carried out in their stations etc. Think of standings as reputation, you don't need it, but it's handy to have, especially if you aim to start your own corp and erect a POS in highsec. There is however a downside, as your standings increase with allied factions, it decreases with the enemy factions, which can result in you being kill on sight in their space, you can balance them out so that problem never occurs, but that won't be of immediate concern for you, it's in your future if you decide to go down that path.

If you accept a mission from an agent, you will suffer a standings penalty for failing to complete the mission or taking more than six days to complete it. Whether this is important to you is up to you. Generally speaking the standings hit is small, but failing or abandoning too may missions will end up cutting you off from agent missions for that corporation, or even that faction.

Check out St Mio's chart of things to do in EVE Online for some inspiration of things you can do that don't involve running missions :)

If you mean normal agents' missions the advice above is fine, but I'm concerned about your use of the singular when you say you played through the "tutorial". This suggests to me that you only did the basic pilot's licence tutorial from Aura and that the missions you refer to are those from the career agents. If that is the case then, yes, do them - you will learn a lot (provided you pay attention to everything that's offered) and also pick up free skillbooks, ships and modules.

Hah, so I guess it's a bad thing I accepted Agent Missions like two months ago when I started playing.. then just came back? I suppose they didn't like that much!

Career agent missions....DO them. They learn you stuff and give you some starting money and assets.

Normal missions...do them only if you want to.

Thank you for the replies you guys.

Yeah, career agent missions give you enough ships and items in the process of trying to "teach you the game" that you end up with about 10 million ISK if you sell the ones you don't need, which is a decent hunk of cash for a newbie for buying skills you need to train.

Otherwise, regular agent missions after that are a way to affect your standings with the NPC empires and corporations, which at high standings give rewards such as jump clones, reduced refinery waste, passes to install POS towers in high sec, etc., in addition to an LP point store that offers some rare ships, implants, blueprints, etc.