Missions & Complexes

Pretty sure blitzing level 3 security missions is what is considered the fastest, not particularly sure whats the fastest to get to that point though.

Mara beat me to it, in addition ....

A lot depends on you - whether you are a new player learning the ropes, or an older player that has a fat wallet.

If you are an older player then the fastest way, most expensive as well, is to use a standings service. They usually charge around 100 mill per level. So 0.0 to 1.0 costs 100 mill, etc.

If you are a completely new player then:

A: that's going to take some time, but time is what you have a lot of

B: Cosmos needs minimum standings to get started, plus the combat missions are generally harder than the equivalent level combat missions, requiring good ship and combat skills. Distribution Cosmos don't need anything special apart from the minimum standings that all Cosmos agents have to get access to them.

C: Mining mission ores can be found on contract, they are not the minerals/ores you get belt mining. Doubt this is very practical.

For a newer player you should read DeMichael's Faction Standing Repair Plan, it will be in the first couple of pages in this subforum (see Mara's link) and do the tutorial missions then Sisters Epic Arc, tag hand ins if you have the isk and so on - full details in DeMichaels Plan.

You could also look for a corp that does group missioning to raise standings, there are plenty of these in high sec, you might have to look around a bit if you have a particular NPC corp you want standings with though.

HTH

Thanks for the replies.

Right now I only have battlecruiser skills and weren't planning on investing in any other combat skills atm (I'm concentrating on mainly industry). I think I can handle level 3's in my Cane. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks!

Lot's of good replies and info in this thread.

However, I didn't get to toss in my 2 ISK.





Aim for +6.70 Corporation standing to enable Tax free Refinery usage. Of course to get the most for your return, don't forget to train up the relevant refining skills.

For an Industrial character, you'll probably want to have high standings with a few different Corporations quite possibly within a few different Factions. The easiest way to achieve this is to have good Faction standing which opens up all agents in all corporations within that specific Faction.

Now to quickly gain standings, train up Connections, Social and Negotiation skills at least to level 4 asap. This will make the grind a lot easier and faster. If looking to run in a few different Factions, train up Diplomacy skill as well.

First of all, I think all newly created characters (new and old players) should complete the Tutorial/Career Agent missions just to get a good jump start into the game. Not only do they give the player various items such as ships, modules, skillbooks, implants, etc., they also give corporation and Faction standing gain.

Now for the main part, complete missions for the level 1 Event Agents starting with a quick round of courier missions for the Circle Agents. Then complete the level 1 Data Center 'Cert' missions and finish with the level 1 'Tag' missions.

By now you should easily have access to regular level 3 agents in all corporations pertaining to that specific Faction. Pick a couple of different corporations and complete courier missions for Distribution agents. Try to set it up where you're traveling back and forth between 2 or 3 different areas. This will quickly increase standings with various corporations at the same time.




Since your plan is to mainly be an Industrial character, I would concentrate more on completing Distribution missions. Those can be completed much quicker leading to more Storyline mission offers which give a large Corporation standing increase along with the Faction increase.

Anyway, that's my 2 ISK worth. Good luck to you.

As I see it they're generally good for faction standings boosts and some are good for corp standings but not so good for faction, but they all require you to complete 16 'normal' missions to get a storyline. It seems to me that those 16 missions are the main factor in your corp standings boosts, and there's not much that's clever about that, and then the storyline gives you either mainly faction or corp standings.

I'd love to hear about how to be more clever with storylines.

if you provide them with your api key, or whatever it's called, they can check for themselves without having to login to your account.

*Provided you have an L4 agent close enough to the storyline agent you're after. It helps to have lots of tertiary corps with high standing to do this. Also, you get the nearest storyline agent of the same faction you've been working for (iirc), so you couldn't say, grind caldari navy missions and grab a minmatar/gallente aligned corp storyline mission.

LOL. I'd not have thought that asking for elaboration on something i don't get as being 'bitter'. Curious interpretation. Still, this **is** eve.

Thanks for your explanation, now I better understand what you meant with your 'clever' refernce to storyline use.

I hear ya on the trolls. I can personally attest however that Nigra is most definitely not bitter noir a troll

My Hurricane that I'm sleeping through level 3 missions in, because it is too easy:

[Hurricane, Level 3]
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Reactive Plating II
Magnetic Plating II
Medium Armor Repairer II

Cap Recharger II
Tracking Computer II, Tracking Speed
Tracking Computer II, Tracking Speed
10MN Afterburner II

650mm Medium 'Scout' Artillery I, Depleted Uranium M
650mm Medium 'Scout' Artillery I, Depleted Uranium M
650mm Medium 'Scout' Artillery I, Depleted Uranium M
650mm Medium 'Scout' Artillery I, Depleted Uranium M
650mm Medium 'Scout' Artillery I, Depleted Uranium M
650mm Medium 'Scout' Artillery I, Depleted Uranium M
'Arbalest' Assault Missile Launcher, Flameburst Light Missile
'Arbalest' Assault Missile Launcher, Flameburst Light Missile

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Nanobot Accelerator I
Medium Projectile Collision Accelerator I


Hobgoblin II x6