EVE New Citizens Q&A

If the sort of mission your agent is handing out are missions you don't want, I hate to say it but you need to change to an agent from a different faction. Either that, or accept the missions and the negative standings with those other factions that come with them.

I know it might seem like a hassle at first, but this might be a good excuse to go explore the game a bit more.

There are a limited number of missions and each agent has its own "pool" of missions from which it selects at random to give you.

Navy agents like Federal Navy, Caldari Navy, etc typically give out more anti-faction missions. So the solution is to work for a different agent. Agents for the Science type corporations, such as Roden Shipyards and Dulvolle Labs almost always offer fewer anti-faction missions.

Another thing to consider is that more people use the Navy agents so their LP stores are usually "worse" in terms of cashing in Loyalty Points, and Science type corps, although they have some crossover in their LP stores typically have items that are not found in the Navy stores and so are a better deal for you.

I would look at Roden Shipyards if you are based in Gallente space, they have one of the best level 4 security agents in Essence and another good one in Verge Vendor. Roden is also one of the Gallente R&D corporations so at some point you might want to use their R&D facilities and agents.

better idea, train combat probes and **** with the other mission runners .

You should change your approach to the game. This isn't like other MMOs where you "quest" yourself to glory.

http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/

That gives you an idea of just how much you can do. Look at EVE from a new angle and you'll enjoy it far more.

Have you done cosmos missions yet?

Your problem seems to be the agent, why not move to another one?
Best place for a mission runner is a station with 2 agents of the same level so you can switch between the two if you get a mission you don't like.

To be honest, I never gave a |(youknowwhat) about my standings. Only thing you need to avoid are the missions you get after completing 16 missions and *that* one is a faction kill mission. Those (can) give you a huge standings hit.

With diplomacy 5 you can kill a *lot* of faction npc's without getting shot at by npc police in hostile faction space.

I've done a lot of missions and never ever gotten my standings so down the npc police came after me.



Edit: if you get a faction kill mission see if you can blitz it without killing everything, you get a hit but less then when you go all Dexter Morgan on them.

Ty for help but none of what you said solves the issue I am having and the poor game design, I don't want to have to fly around all over the place wasting time being bored, I don't have 12 hours a day to play and should not be restricted for 4-8hrs from doing missions, that is just how I feel about it.

As for the fast track to lvl 3 missions the way I managed it was to do all the tutorial career agent missions which gave free ships / skillbooks / loot and quite a bit of standings, then did an epic story arc and a few lvl 2 missions hardly any and I was ready for lvl 3 missions before I could even afford my first battlecruiser. Just a shame I can't even run lvl 3 missions when I would like to and when I have the time to play because constantly blocked from doing so.

Lets say I have a few hours to play and want to run some missions but then I get two faction missions in a row, sorry you can't do anything for 4 hours now, im not going to fly 10-20 jumps around doing other things or another agent to use, only to move everything I use back again in 4-8hours...

I will just log off and go play game that is actually fun and wants me to play their game and content without random block timers...

That just how I see it im afraid and how im guessing a lot of other new players would see it.

I can understand why long term players would disagree but from a new player stand point it just seems like poor game design, not fun and more of a chore than playing a game. Not everyone has 6+ hours a day to play games.

EVE's most important content is the interaction between players, making good decisions, choosing the right tool for the task. Its like the real life, EVE dont care about your feelings, your convenience. EVE mostly provide tools to entertain yourself and do your content for you and for others.
Lets see your problem: havent got much time to wait 4 hours, and wont go kill other faction's ships.
EVE gave you the choices and consequences:
1., accept the agent standing hit by declining the mission
2., accept the faction standing hit by accepting mission and killing enemy ships
3., accept the mission and try to blitz, killing as less ships as possible, for minimal standing hit
4., can train Diplomacy skill to mitigate standing hit
5., choose a better place to do missions (station with 2-3 agent and adjacent systems with similar agents)
6., can do missions for the enemy faction to restore you standings
7-n., you can do other things while waiting or instead of missioning: http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/
n+1: you can leave EVE, as you dont like its design.

All bittervets were new players once, and faced this problem too. We've made our decision, and embraced EVE's unique, harsh, cruel nature.

There are a lot of gamers out there, who dont like EVE, average leave in 3 month if i remember well CCP's numbers. EVE is a niche game with unique design that wont please as many ppl as popular MMOs.

You should accept it, or leave for now, maybe later the developers will change that rule somehow. But im sure, they wont remove the consequences of declining missions.

Just do the missions. So what if you take a standing hit. You say that you don't want to run around all over space doing missions for many agents to keep your standings high.
But then the only reason to worry about standing loss with a foreign empire is that you get shot going there )if you're really slow). but if you don't want to travel all over space, what does it matter if you get shot at if you would go somewhere that you don't plan to?

I do missions for only 1 corp/lvl 4 agent. My standings are terrible for amarr and caldari. Guess who doesn't go to amarr/caldari high-sec? This guy. Guess who doesn't care? This guy.

Congratulation, you got EVE. :)

I hope you will find your place in New Eden.