EVE New Citizens Q&A

You're just having really bad luck.

Anyway, if you can do L3's then what you should look to do is scanning down combat sites and run the 3/10 and 4/10 sigs you find. No ISK payout other than bounties, standings, or LP, but on occasion you really score with DED, Faction loot, and rare blueprints.

The game didn't stop you from doing a thing. You CAN take and do that mission, and mitigate the consequences using any number of the above suggestions. OR, you can try something else I, and many others, would argue is far more entertaining/worth your time than running missions.

There are consequences for everything in EVE. I choose to attack players "illegally" in lowsec, the consequence is a dramatic drop in Security status, I'm therefore a walking target to everyone everywhere, including High Sec, Concord won't save me. For you, the consequence is lower standing with whatever faction you were shooting at in the mission.

I suggest you take all the good advice in the posts above to heart instead of blaming the game's design.

Eve players don't take it kindly when you blame the game for your own lack of imagination. There are thousands of things to do in this game. Missions are a very small part of it. If standings are that big an issue for you, please, find something else to do.

Or just run Sisters of Eve missions. I rejected every faction mission (sometimes more than once every four hours) and got up to level 4 standings without any issues. They give out fewer faction missions.

Or you could do the math and take the (usually minor) standing hit for declining.

Just because you can't do missions doesn't mean you can't play the game. If the standings are important to you for whatever reason, then okay fine. Decline those missions. Since you now have to wait to do more missions, you seem to be saying that you just can't play the game at all. That's so wrong.

EvE is not missions. It's not mining. Those are the two most boring parts of it!

grab a cheap, fast frigate and head to low-sec solo to blow something up. Or avoid getting blown up yourself.
Train a bit of scanning skill and do some Exploration site running.
Fleet up with a few other newbros in local (or from your corp since you seem to have one) and go on a roam down in low or null together to see what kind of trouble you can get into. Slightly better odds of surviving in groups.
Try FW
Scan down mission runners and steal their loot
ninja salvage
go on a tour of null just to see how far you can get
build something
steal something
gank a miner
set a trap for a miner ganker

There are literally millions of things to do while you wait to run more missions. Maybe even something you find you like enough to not want to go back to those boring missions in the first place.

I find it hard to believe that OP is at a NPC station with no other NPC stations within a short hop of 4 jumps.

When I hit the 4 hour limit, I either do something else, or go to a different agent (same corp, or another corp).

The benefit of faction standing is you can access agents of the same level for any corp in that faction.

Unlike the apologists in this thread who think the system is GREAT CCP has different opinion. From CSM 9 minutes.

You can read whole thing about missioning starting from page 128
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/csm/CSM9Summer_Minutes_2014.pdf



They'll fix the mission system at some point, we'll start seeing changes probably next year. The code is apparently a mess so it'll take some time to fix it or they'll redo it completely. But they are actively looking into it.

So basically you are right, it's stupid mechanic and it'll change at some point.

I don't understand the problem, since I've never declined a story line mission, but what's wrong withh declining it and then running missions? I thought the only 4h thing was after declining a mission, any more declines during that period will give a standings loss.

He's not talking about storyline missions. You can decline those easily because they come from a different agent. He's talking about getting two "shoot Caldari" mission in a row. Normally if you are grinding, you'll have so much extra standing with the agent and corp that you can decline the second one despite the penalty and never lose access to any agents (at least with SOE...maybe not with one of the more trigger happy faction factions).


Remove missions?

ah, rgr.
If you really care about that, grind all your faction standings up to 10. That should last you a couple years of missions.
Good luck.