Missions & Complexes

Depends with what and where. You can get a lot of info off of http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports

Really? Suggest a machariel BS for a 1mo old caldari character to run on lvl3's? hehehe. Sure, could be yet another non-PC forum alt, but the type of question being asked sort of says otherwise He's probably not even anywhere near a T2 heavy assault cruiser nor Gallente ship skills for that matter.

Years into this game, I've never felt the need to take a BS on a lvl3, and if just for grinding standings and with having skills I just take an assault frig. Or even a battle cruiser would just do fine. But for 1mo old, he's probably running a Caracal at best, or a drake or something. Or trying to push destroyer skills further, which would probably be a little much at this point, I mean too hard for it.

My first run thorough the lvl3 gauntlet I was using a Drake, and even had a mission or two that I just couldn't complete solo, but that was a long time ago so no idea how it handles with that now balanced ship on current missions with low SP (that link I put in would help). Plus if a Caldari character, probably in Caldari space, running Caldari Navy security missions, likely fighting a lot of Guistus, a ship with kenetic bonus would do best, at least for lacking a lot of SP.

So anyway, from what you can see from that link, there are a lot of lvl3 missions, so kind of just a bit much to list all the missions in category of difficulty. Easiest to just start doing the lvl3's then look up the mission before you accept. As you get a mission offer, look over the page on it, see what is suggested, what is being dealt with, maybe read comments. Then go back and accept or reject. If you reject, then go to another mission agent of the same level, that way you don't lose standings if you reject a second mission from that same agent within the four hour timer.

Everyone basically answered those questions with regards to Security Division (Encounter / Combat missions). More than likely it's what the OP wanted to know.

However, I'm gonna go with the flip side and answer them with a more literal approach..

Distribution (Courier) missions are the quickest and easiest ones to complete, just pick up and drop off.
Security (Encounter) missions are the hardest ones to complete due to combating waves of NPC's.
Mining (Mining) missions are sorta like a Distribution and Security mission combined together.

Security missions give the most standing increase.
Distribution missions give the least amount of standing increase.
Mining missions are basically in-between Distribution and Security missions in regards to standing gains.

If you're looking to build up Corporation standing quickly, then go with the Security missions. If you're looking to quickly gain Storyline mission offers, then go with Distribution missions.

Lastly if you're just looking to quickly build up or repair Faction standing, then check out 'The Plan'.



DMC

I play for about 3 years now and never had a Machariel. I never lost one for that same reason (obviously).
My pilot has only 1,795,746 SP.
That was under 1,380,000 SP until he learned:
- Social V (for mission),
- Gunnery V (for Large long range Hybrid guns) and
- Drones V (to have 5 Drones and learn skills for Heavy Drones and Sentries).
He is training to become a Black Ops pilot and because of that flies a Battleship.
He pilots a Dominix.
It is slow for most mission.
There are times that the 1.6m or 1.2m ISK 100MN Microwarp Drives are many jumps away from purchase.

He also flies a Destroyers, either Algos for an added 5 Medium Drones, usefull against frigates or Catalyst.
The Catalyst can be used to salvage, but it's capacitor limitation are not enough to cover.
(The salvager demand for power often drains the 8 or 7 salvager.)

The BS is good at Salvaging with 6 Salvager, and, with a Mobile Tractor Unit (MTU), is quick to loot and target + salvage.
That brings in just under 1m or 700k additional ISK per level 3 missions , +/- 500k ISK.

I tanked the BS for now, and loaded 4 Capacitor Boosters to inject the needed power to run the multiple activated modules.
The highest demand for power are the 100MN MWD and the Large Armor Repairer.
I am currently learning Mechanics V so that I can fit a Large Hull Repairer, therefore potentially voiding repair costs.
It should be complete in 3d 16 hours, with 2 +3 implants and 3 +2 ones acquired with LPs from missioning except one +3.

My Sister of Eves standing has now reached over 4.10 with only 0.9 left to reach level 4.

I never had an Assault Frigate yet, with 10+ pilots.
I have a BC and I find the tank (or amount of damage it can take) much weaker than the BS tank.
Lar only is a forum Alt, with potential for scout, and market Price Checker.
What I was referring to is for a main pilot on (the) related account.

I soloed level 2 mission with an Alt, who piloted a destroyer (Algos with 5 drones and Medium hybrid guns.)
I currently solo the level 3 missions with no Alts.
Once, I requested support which took 5 hours to arrive.
It was about 10-30 minutes after my mission loot dropped and expired after the 2 hours expiry time for loot.

I will try to list the missions I do.
I will list them in another thread since it is not related to the best or worst ones
I will try to add the standing gained although I realise that changes greatly.
After my current skill, I plan to learn Connection V to gain more standing points.

I do not plan to be able to fly level 4 mission solo except for a few.
Some level 3 mission are hard.
One level 2 mission I did was harder than normal to fight NPCs instead of flying for Recon (1 to 3 of 3).
(btw, the standing refuses to show on EVEBoard.com for that pilot.)


That is what I posted the thread for, so I or other can rate them by difficulty.
Also, some of the Standing points effects.


I find it hard to predict the mission difficulty level before actually testing it for myself.
I find the information hard to verify otherwise and the same for the videos, or most of them.


Unfortunately, there is only 1 level 3 agent in High Sec.
If I do decline his mission, or cancel the mission after having accepted it, it causes more problems than published.
What happens or can happen is that I can lose .31 standing points, which would put me at around 4.42 by now.

I may not need to get to level 4 mission.
I wonder if I can solo level 4 and how to.


Edit @ 15:53:
Ah yes, I forgot to mention, level 3 Security Missions.
I do not do the other missions for now.
The SOE High sec agent I referred to is the only security mission agent.

Edit 2 @ 20:05:
The only pirate ship I bought were a Dramiel and a Daredevil (stolen away from me, so I never flown it) .
I didn't fly Faction ships yet either.
Only a few T2 ships, but not on my current active pilot.

I did What Comes Around, Goes Around, Level 3.
And a few other mission.
That one paid me around .10 faction standing towards SOE.
It seems some missions are the same for different Factions or Corporations.

Edit 3 @ 23:29:
Deadly Arrival
is an easy one. For SOE.
(I can include the location later on when I have to move to another system. Or not, for secrecy, ease of completion, and limit competition.)

I personally see a direct relation in how hard it is to do a mission and how people tell me what to do.
(Even though it is not directly related to the mission level of difficulty itself.)
I find it even more damaging if not disturbing that those same suggestions can in no way apply to my conditions.
It is not surprising to me that I am then informed not to rely on them unless I want to be held liable for the damage.
It can make me lose 200m at each step of the way, which could easily lead to 400m and 800m +.

(I won't include the allies -vs- warfare parts for ease and simplicity).

Not so since there are 10 pilots.
This pilot I am referring to in this thread is 1 month and 2 weeks old.
His active time terminates in 9 days.
But that is asking for rather investigative questions.
Short Answer is/ are:
Not a typo, not a typo right, not right.

I am not digging for info for nefarious reasons, usually when a player has a problem completing missions it's due to failing to train the relevant skills. If you picked a ship (I would recommend a cruiser for lvl-3's) but any ship, and trained tank, weapons, navigation and the social skills necessary to maximize the agent benefits you could easily run any lvl-3 mission with no regard to the mission journal.

The basis for this thought is that to my knowledge there are no Lvl-3 missions that exceed a few hundred incoming DPS, and no Lvl-3 rat that can survive a few hundred DPS. Granted that changes when you get into Lvl-4's and even more so in the Epic Arcs, but for Lvl-3's you can pretty much go in blind if you have trained the requisite skills.

I will still admit I am confused about your pilot, you only train them for under 2 months then stop? You will never be able to excel at any of Eve's PVE if you don't give a few months minimum to specialize and complete a few skills to V.

I feel like everyone is giving you the right answers but you're not understanding it.

Standings given or lost for a mission accepted, declined or failed depends entirely on your skills.

Better standings with an agent does not give you better missions, the agent has a certain pool of missions and he gives them out randomly, you have just a good a chance to get Angel Extrav as you are Angel Spies.

The current Eve-Survival guide give a full explanation of each security mission, what to expect, what to shoot, what damage type to tank against and how much reward is given, difficulty can be ascertained from there by a realistic look at your skills and proficiency.

The ease of a mission is directly proportionate to the skills a pilot has trained, I can do all Lvl-3 mission in an untanked, unrigged ship but my skills have exceeded 100mil and all of them are in ship tank, damage application, navigation and drones.

The original post was asking for a list of easiest Lvl-3 missions, did you want a list of the mission with one rat to kill and no loot to scoop? if so again we would direct you here and suggest you look through them on order to find your own definition of easy.

I am still very concerned about your toon being less than 2 months old, and not going to get any older. If you don't dedicate a few month to training up fully then you will find everything in this game hard, or at the least not profitable.

I was trying to reply to this post while missioning and trying to keep track of the data I was going to post when you posted the 2nd post to which I replied first.


A player having a problem completing missions can be due to the mission being hard.
How can the player avoid losing if he is not able to keep track of it?
Why does the skill make it a problem.
I have no skills trained that affect this.
My skills are minimum and yet, I can accomplish the mission.
It doesn't mean that some are easier.
It doesn't mean that I will find some easier which others don't even though that is beside the point to a certain extent.
(Even to a certain specific extent.)


I count 46 or so word in your sentence.
It is hard to read.
Please keep it down to 20 or 21 words per sentence to make it easier to read.
I use a BS because I learn to fly Black Ops.


We're getting closer to the facts.
I made one mission which had way over a few hundreds DPS and I forgot which name now.
I might have it in my EVE mail.
I will check later since I am rather annoyed at this time.
I really (and I do mean really, and most likely even mean more than really) annoyed.


I bet you can get killed pretty good blind too! Even with 9 million SP.


I have some over 8 million SP.
I thought you wrote PvP , not PVE.
I have different skill set for different actions.

Edit @ 02:03:
My first reply was:
So what is the opportunity with posting on the forums about which level 3 security missions are easiest?
Or hardest?
And the relative standing?

Edit 2:
The mission that was hard was:
Portal To War (2 of 5)
(level 3)

The only really easy Level IIIs are Recon 1 to 3 and a couple of other ones you can blitz without fighting. Note missions like Recon are meant to be blitzed and have stupid DPS if you actually try and fight them.

Always read EVE Survival before doing a mission to avoid unpleasant surprises.

Note the DPS in most level IIIS is managemeable providing you note the trigger ships mentioned in EVE survival and do not set them all off at once. Setting off full room aggro can be overwhelming eve in an otherwise "easy" mission.


General comments:

I) . If your grinding for standing you need:
- Connections at IV or V
- Social at IV or V

or it will take forever to get to level IVs.


II) . With only one agent to choose from you should:
1. Ask for a mission and if good do it, if bad decline
2. if you declined first ask for a second one, if that is also bad delay it NOT decline it.
3. At this point you may as well and go run missions for the level 2 agent in the Simela system for the next 4 hours.
4. IMPORTANT - If you are logging off and have no delayed missions ask for a new mission before you logoff. If its good delay it and keep it for when you log back on.