EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I was running security missions for Caldari Navy and then browsing though agent finder I noticed that I have even lvl 3 missions available from corporations I havent run any missions for. I look at standings and it looked like my Caldari standing was taken into account (or basically used since I had 0 standing with the corporation itself) to calculate the availability of missions.
Great, I thought and had this brilliant idea to keep grinding Caldari standing through storyline missions from just one corporation, in order not to spread out LPs, get it to 5 and have lvl IV missions from all Caldari corporations.
But yesterday I looked at it again, I have Caldari standing over 4 and all level III missions, except R&D missions for 2 corporations, are available to me. I have Lai Dai R&D missions of level III, I did maybe 1 or 2 missions for them a long time ago.
So how does this work? Faction standing added to Corporation standing for Security, Distribution and Mining missions, but not for R&D?
With Connections, my Lai Dai standing is about 1, not enough for level III missions, but with Caldari standing enough for level III and IV missions, yet I get only level III missions. Why? Faction standing only added for level III and below missions, but not level IV?

No, my information is correct.
However looking around I found this statement

on this webpage.
This would explain it. However they also talk about agent quality, which I understand has been removed awhile ago? So I dont know how valid their information is.
Can anybody confirm?
Also how much income is it really now? I see that data cores are about 100k on the market and from the formula for research point generation (again not sure how valid it is) it seems like I can get 1 data core every 1-2 days. I know it is passive income, but taking into account skill training time and skill book costs is it really worth getting into it?

You need faction standing, corp standing or agent standing to access a agent. High faction standing gives access to all agents (except r&d) of the factions corps, high corp standing gives accesss to all agents of one corp and high agent standing...just allows access to the specific agent. For R&D, beside your personal Corp standing, you need the right skills, too or the agent won't work with you. See here for details.

R & D agents require additional skills in addition to standings in order for them to be accessed. They are mainly used for data core farming.

check out this link about Data Core Farming

I mentioned the same link in my above post. I know about skill requirements.
Yet I can access Lai Dai level 3 R&D agents (with corporation standing LESS than 3), but not R&D agents level 3 of other 2 Caldari corporations which have them.

dude, skill wont explain why I get Lai Dai agents, but not others.
the link you provided I mentioned a few post above yours, with a quote from it. but with all the updates, especially changes to R&D agents, I wasnt sure if it was relevant any more and asked if anyone could confirm.

oh I see you edited your post . thanx for confirmation.

quick additional questions - people mention personal agent standing in order to access the agent. how can I get personal standing with a particular agent if I cant even access him and run missions for him?

That's done by fleeting up with someone who already has access to that agent. They share the mission completion reward with fleet which gains both Agent and Corporation standing. This was used a long time ago to help repair negative standings or to quickly gain access to a high level agent.


As for R&D Agents, they require a set amount of both Corporation and Faction standing for access, as well as specific Science skills trained up.

The reason those Agents require both Corp and Faction standing is to prevent players from grinding up Faction standing with a different Corp and then quickly accessing a Research Agent from another Corp within that same Faction.

The amount of required standings should be listed in the agent info box. Also when they send you mail messages saying their Research has halted, it hasn't. Research Points will still accumulate. They just want you to do another mission for them which can only be done once every 24 hours - reward is double Research Points.

Anyway, sounds like you got a good idea on how Research Agents work so good luck to you.


DMC