Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Short intro story:

I have been running Distro missions idly for certain corps and diligently delivered cattle, tobacco, spirits, seeds and crates of soil to other corps' stations. Some requests for goods and deliveries hinted quite obviously that they were in urgent need, like water for a station whose water supply had run dry or handguns for subduing protests, others just appeared to be in higher than usual demand for recreational purposes, like Tobacco in the Imperial Academy station (students can be a real pain sometimes). It then jumped to my mind that I only get a handshake from the needy receiver of the goods and be sent back right away. That's not exactly the thanks I had expected for delivering their salvation and saving their lifes, but hey...

I don't want to suggest better payment or better standing gains for 1 faction or better item rewards for the missions. I also don't think that LP should be given for both parties of the mission. For the amount of risk you usually are subject to in high sec, better monetary or item rewards are not feasible.

However, I think that Distribution Missions should give standing gain to both parties of the mission: to the sender for taking the mission and risk and delivering timely and to the receiver for actually delivering the (much) needed goods.

I think, a standing gain towards the receiving party of up to 20% (for high sec) missions of the standing gain to the mission giver sounds feasible.. It's a minuscule amount but over time you can build up some standings and ease up the switch to other corps to run missions for, do science or industry.

Double Standing Gain should not apply to other mission types, because they (security, R&D, Mining) are only a one-sided interaction with no other party involved. Pirates don't count here because you get the standing drop for them if you shoot them. Also, if you abort an ongoing mission, you would get the same ration in regards to the standing drop for both involved corps in the mission.

In light of the looming summer expansion and dire need for PVE overhauls, can we possibly get some more comments or remarks on this and similar topics?

As far as I know there are no L5 Distribution missions. It would not be feasible to begin with, since L5 missions are Low sec exclusive and who would fly a freighter around in Low sec for the meager ISK, LP and standing gains of Distro missions?

The largest Distro missions that I have encountered so far are a particular type of storyline mission, where you have to transport 40k m³ of goods.

If I understand the other topic correctly, he also talks about the usual standing gains from missions. Gaining standing to various corps helps in case you need to move around to a new location or want to set up shop in a new location. If you have run Distro missions for one corp of one Empire, it is very likely that you have gained enough standing towards a couple of corps in different empires so that you don't need to start the grind at 0 again. You can instead start out with L2 missions or even L3 missions right from away, or are at least closer to these levels, and don't have to grind the next lower level again.
Towards how many corps you gain standing depends in my experience highly on the location you fly Distro missions. I usually fly then in Domain in areas where there is only a limited number of other NPC corporations' footprint and the number of destination NPC corps is limited to around 5-7. There are, naturally, some regions with numerous different corps in close proximity to the Distro agents, which may result in a wider spread of standing gains. On the other hand, this adds a new level of interaction with the environment of EVE and you have to evaluate and compare different Distro agent locations not only with regards to how close they are to Low sec, but also if there is a number of other NPC corps of interest close by.

The fact that Distro missions result in Security storylines is indeed a bit unnerving, as it doesn't make a lot of sense when you just need to shot stuff and are done with it if you are only a cargo hauler. However, I think that's intentional behavior and a nudge from CCP that you should kindly cooperate with other players, giving the nasty nature of players a way to also interfere with Distro agent running players by stealing mission objectives from such storylines. Probably won't be changed.

Of course we've seen a [insert UI complaint] and [insert PVE/industry overhaul]. Redundancy is bound to happen... At least this one is old and getting brought back to life... some-one did some looking before starting a new thread (Feb start date here).


Yes. It would be awesome if they looked at storyline and mining missions. It would be especially nice if you didn't need a dedicated combat vessel in L3-4 mining missions.

To be fair it had been two months since this thread had seen the light of day. Other than dedicated forum warriors, no one is too concerned.

oh wait - 20% of the mission standing gain - I feel that's probably fair....

Yeah, when I was grinding standing this annoyed me, too. I came from the other direction and there is not much more vexing then flying security missions and getting one storyline-distri after another. Bad standing gain and I had to have a hauler standing by, just for them. Pure dumb idiocy. Why would my faction give distribution missions to one of their combat pilots? It just makes no sense.