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Mac Qingyun
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2011-11-26 19:52:17 UTC
Just curious what others out there are doing:

I do a lot of solo missions (lvl 4 atm), but find switching agents to be a little tedious ...

Fly your BS over there, pod-fly back, fly your salvager over there, pod-fly back, fly your hauler over there (if you're not near enough to a hub to haul your salvage / loot back easily).

Am I missing something, or is changing agents / stations just painful?
Aestivalis Saidrian
Revenent Defence Corperation
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#2 - 2011-11-26 20:09:33 UTC
Train an Orca. just haul everything that way. Only problem is potential rigs but the Noctis doesn't really /need/ rigs, they're just handy. Hauler can just compact down anyways. The Battleship will be a problem as they're /slightly/ too big for the ship maintenance array.
Veronica Kerrigan
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2011-11-26 21:26:57 UTC
1:Train Hauler into frieghter
2:Plastic wrap BS and noctis
3:????
4:Profit
CanonMP180
#4 - 2011-11-26 21:40:35 UTC
Mac Qingyun wrote:
Just curious what others out there are doing:

I do a lot of solo missions (lvl 4 atm), but find switching agents to be a little tedious ...

Fly your BS over there, pod-fly back, fly your salvager over there, pod-fly back, fly your hauler over there (if you're not near enough to a hub to haul your salvage / loot back easily).

Am I missing something, or is changing agents / stations just painful?


As suggested, unless you can fly a freighter (or have an alt who can), changing agents is a pain. If you're moving far I highly recommend red frog freight as a cheap and quick way to get everything moved in one go. *Goes off to find a link to their thread*

Here we are:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=6491

Those guys are great, I use them all the time. Sometimes it'll take up to 48hrs for them to move your stuff, but more often than not it's all done in 12-24hrs :)

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Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2011-11-26 21:47:29 UTC
CanonMP180 wrote:
Mac Qingyun wrote:
Just curious what others out there are doing:

I do a lot of solo missions (lvl 4 atm), but find switching agents to be a little tedious ...

Fly your BS over there, pod-fly back, fly your salvager over there, pod-fly back, fly your hauler over there (if you're not near enough to a hub to haul your salvage / loot back easily).

Am I missing something, or is changing agents / stations just painful?


As suggested, unless you can fly a freighter (or have an alt who can), changing agents is a pain. If you're moving far I highly recommend red frog freight as a cheap and quick way to get everything moved in one go. *Goes off to find a link to their thread*

Here we are:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=6491

Those guys are great, I use them all the time. Sometimes it'll take up to 48hrs for them to move your stuff, but more often than not it's all done in 12-24hrs :)


Buy a Noctis and DPS ship for each major agent you like to run with? Or at least 2 of the three.

1. Haulers are uber cheap, no reason to have extras. your return on investment will be less than one lvl 4
2. Noctis is a bit more expensive, but still, it will pay for itself in one night of missions at least.
3. DPS ship depends on what you fly. But if you already got a duplicate of 1 and 2 you are down to 1 ship.

Cheaper than an Orca, no additional training.
Mac Qingyun
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2011-11-26 22:03:42 UTC
Derath Ellecon wrote:


Buy a Noctis and DPS ship for each major agent you like to run with? Or at least 2 of the three.

1. Haulers are uber cheap, no reason to have extras. your return on investment will be less than one lvl 4
2. Noctis is a bit more expensive, but still, it will pay for itself in one night of missions at least.
3. DPS ship depends on what you fly. But if you already got a duplicate of 1 and 2 you are down to 1 ship.

Cheaper than an Orca, no additional training.


This answer seems the easiest / cheapest by far. Hadn't thought of building up a fleet for multiple agents, but you're right ... a fully fitted hauler is < 10M and a fully fitted Noctis (IIRC) wasn't that bad ... 20M? So pretty cost-efficient if I keep the number of agents fairly low ...

Thinking the epic arc centers plus the main mission areas I run regularly.

Not bad. And I can even start with just the hauler in each and slowly build my way up. I like it.
Handsome Hussein
#7 - 2011-11-26 22:09:11 UTC
Derath Ellecon wrote:
Buy a Noctis and DPS ship for each major agent you like to run with?

If you have one account, this is probably the way to go. If you have two accounts, one will manage your Noctis and a hauler, while the runner flies the mission ship. You only have to ferry back for one ship, bring a shuttle in the Noctis rather than pod fly back for the hauler; it's faster

Leaves only the fresh scent of pine.
CanonMP180
#8 - 2011-11-26 22:32:41 UTC
Could I ask, purely out of interest, why you run missions for different agents in parallel? I've tried to come up with a reason but can't really think of one... Don't get me wrong, I've got standings with a few different agents and factions on different characters, but as far as I can recall I've always done missions for a particular agent / corp / faction in serial rather than parallel. You mentioned the Epic Arcs, but they're a once in 3 months thing so I figure that's not necessarily it....

I just wonder if you know something I don't! Big smile

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Mac Qingyun
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2011-11-26 22:47:11 UTC
CanonMP180 wrote:
Could I ask, purely out of interest, why you run missions for different agents in parallel? I've tried to come up with a reason but can't really think of one... Don't get me wrong, I've got standings with a few different agents and factions on different characters, but as far as I can recall I've always done missions for a particular agent / corp / faction in serial rather than parallel. You mentioned the Epic Arcs, but they're a once in 3 months thing so I figure that's not necessarily it....

I just wonder if you know something I don't! Big smile


Good question ... no particular answer. In general I don't run /truly/ parallel. I often switch after I get the storyline mission from one particular faction.

It's a combination of competing goals (for instance, grinding standings with multiple factions) and wanting to see something different. Also, as I'm increasing from Lvl 2 -> 3 -> 4 as I gain standing for that corp, you have to switch agents.

I also jump over to help friends out with their missions, and if I were to bring multiple ships along (though I usually would only need one or two at most), those travel times get incredibly tedious.

Not one of those (I think) is a really good answer. Mostly, I found it very annoying to switch agents, and wondered if I was missing something, myself!
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2011-11-27 00:29:56 UTC
Mac Qingyun wrote:
CanonMP180 wrote:
Could I ask, purely out of interest, why you run missions for different agents in parallel? I've tried to come up with a reason but can't really think of one... Don't get me wrong, I've got standings with a few different agents and factions on different characters, but as far as I can recall I've always done missions for a particular agent / corp / faction in serial rather than parallel. You mentioned the Epic Arcs, but they're a once in 3 months thing so I figure that's not necessarily it....

I just wonder if you know something I don't! Big smile


Good question ... no particular answer. In general I don't run /truly/ parallel. I often switch after I get the storyline mission from one particular faction.

It's a combination of competing goals (for instance, grinding standings with multiple factions) and wanting to see something different. Also, as I'm increasing from Lvl 2 -> 3 -> 4 as I gain standing for that corp, you have to switch agents.

I also jump over to help friends out with their missions, and if I were to bring multiple ships along (though I usually would only need one or two at most), those travel times get incredibly tedious.

Not one of those (I think) is a really good answer. Mostly, I found it very annoying to switch agents, and wondered if I was missing something, myself!



I can understand that. I have been starting to work with multiple agents/factions in a long term effort to get my standings up with all 4 factions.

However when grinding standing with a particular corp from 1-4 I basically just blitz the lvl 1,2,3 missions. Level 1-2 missions aren't even worth salvaging. Lvl 3 maybe, but since i can run them so fast its quicker just to blitz them until I can hit level 4's. That leaves me with only one ship to run around with.

Also, your noctis costs are low. but they are still a cheap investment that will pay for them quickly salvaging LVL 4's
Mac Qingyun
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2011-11-27 00:44:54 UTC
Derath Ellecon wrote:
However when grinding standing with a particular corp from 1-4 I basically just blitz the lvl 1,2,3 missions. Level 1-2 missions aren't even worth salvaging. Lvl 3 maybe, but since i can run them so fast its quicker just to blitz them until I can hit level 4's. That leaves me with only one ship to run around with.

Also, your noctis costs are low. but they are still a cheap investment that will pay for them quickly salvaging LVL 4's


I think you're right. I don't find myself salvaging on lvl 2's at all except for a rare named ship now and then, and probably will stop salvaging 3's now that I'm actively doing 4's.