Missions & Complexes

Now this is just a rough estimate, but it seems that the target location for missions depends on the number of active players in the respective system, with the closest systems checked first. I assume that High Sec systems are checked before Low Sec systems since I once had an agent that preferred the neighboring High Sec system over the neighboring Low Sec system, though there might be some random element as well. So, if those systems are "full", you are sent further away or into Low Sec since they are usually quite empty.

Also, some missions seem to always be in the agents´ home system no matter its population.

For your purposes, I do not recall being sent further than 2 jumps for a security mission, so any agent 3 or more jumps away from any Low Sec system should be quite safe for you.

Indeed, the answer is location. Try to find an agent buried in empire space. 3 jumps is the longest I've been sent for a combat mission.

Look at a map. Look for an agent in a constellation that doesn't have any lowsec systems.

*shrug* alright. Seems to work for me then is all I can state. Probably doesn't hurt at least, as it tends to put you further away from lowsec.

So, if you see my sec status it is obvious that I want you to come to low sec so someone like me can hunt you. The non troll answer though is to avoid accepting missions from agents close to low sec. I used to run SOE lvl 4s in gicodel and never got sent to low sec.

At some point you may want to consider a move to low sec because just about everything is more lucrative and it makes the game fun. But remember to create multiple safes in systems you frequent and bounce them when hostiles come into system. Also you will want to create insta undock safes that are off grid from station and do this for every station you dock in.

Fly safe and remember that eve is just a game

LOL. It's the responsibility of us carebears to go play with those 'sharks', they feel unloved and neglected if we don't. And there is little worse than a neglected-feeling wannabe PvPer moaning in these forums "I'm a fail. CCP fix this! CCP fix that! So I can yell 'Yo ho ho', 'yaawwwrrr', and 'moar' and generally scare ppl."

After all eve exists solely for the purpose of carebears and their associated industry, and those wannabe PvPers are only out there to break things so people have to buy the stuff we gather, mine, harvest, build. So it's up to all of us to help those wannbe PvPers so that they can, in turn, help us. Once you've got s little more experience and skills do get out and try stuff in lowsec / nullsec .... once you stop dying too often it's actually a bundle of fun.

Why are you scared of low sec?

I can't prove it, but I think in some cases the agent can be 1 or 2 jumps away, in the same constellation with losec systems, and NEVER send you out. I did a few weeks missioning for SOE in Simela and never once was sent into the losec portions. Also, the closest storyline agent is in that same constellation, but instead I was getting my offers for the agent in Sheroo. IMO they've been manually tweaked by CCP. Just a guess though.