Missions & Complexes

Suggestion to anyone planning on doing datacenters in the future: Set up regional buy orders for your tags ahead of time and save yourself a lot of isk. Most of the tag orders are not updated very often so you won't have to babysit or 0.01isk it (possibly on weekends, YMMV).

Awesome guide man!

I have terrible Serpentis and Angel faction standings ( -9.75 and -9.12 unmodified). While i can access one of the starting agents for the Angel epic arch, the agent he sends me to will not speak to me. Does that mean that my only chance of repairing my standings is to grind hundreds of lvl 1 missions until my modified standings rise above -2 ?

Just dropping in to give DCM some more kudoz.

The plan has given me new long-term goals and those are rare gems to stumble upon after all these years. Who knew carebearing could be exciting?

Do either one of you fine gentlemen happen to know if the SoE arc requires probe skills? I checked the wiki and didn't see any mention of it, but as I recall from a while back there was some scanning involved. Maybe I remembered the wrong epic arc.

Thanks.

[ I think you have encountered a bug. Best thing for you to do right now is file a petition in-game, character stuck.]


Thanks for the advice. I tried to access the agent again today and everything is fine now Not sure if it was a bug or user error, but everything is back on track and i'm going forward with The Plan.

So I had some time to kill waiting for skills to train and figured I'd try to start boosting my faction standings. Problem is first system I went to for the Career Agents (Malukker), both the Industry and the Business agent wouldn't give me a mission. I'm fairly positive I've never been out in that part of space before, so there should be no way that I could have requested the missions before and let them expire. Any other reason those agents would refuse to talk to me while the two Combat and the Exploration agents would?

Hello DMC and thanks for this guide. It has been a wonderful asset for my characters past and present.

I have a question that you might be able to answer, concerning the lower-end event agents (ranging from career to the first level data center and cosmos). I am training a new alt at the moment and want to give him a head start in faction standings. I have him on a rather impractical training regimen however, and I'd like to know what you consider to be the upper end of what can be accomplished in a basic frigate without many support skills. Career agents are certainly feasible, but it has been a while since I did any of the other event missions.

Indeed that refreshed my memory, thanks.

First thanx for you amazing plan and continued contributions.

I was still under -5 with diplo 5 with amarr and caldari when I decided to try to restore them a bit.

I found my way, and was able to reach -4.99, and start the plan, in around 8 hours, by running level 1 distribution missions.

I chose Oremmulf IX - Moon 2 - Imperial Armaments Warehouse, in Heimatar, as there are 3 level 1 distribution agents. Most missions can be done in a "nano inty", the rest in a cargo hold expanded "mining" frig or catalyst (3 lows for more cargo expanders). I guess a blocake runner would do superbly as the large cargo ship, but I'm far from having the skills to fly one. so I wont comment.

I did decline all mining missions, and all missions more than 1 jump away. Often the 3 agents propose a transport to/from the same system, which speed up things. You can wait next "run" to accept a mission, so that you increase the probability of a shared "run". This technique doesn't fasten things much however. A decent amount of missions are in Oremmulf itself. The objective is of course to minimize the time to get a storyline mission, and so minimize the number of warps and jumps.

The pool of missions is limited, and you benefit from fitting a mwd on your inty, as for some missions you have to get a thing from a can ins space (the device!!!), which can be some kms away. You benefit from mounting guns too, as you might have to shoot some cargo ship or structure to loot the mission objective (they take like 30 seconds to shoot down, max).

Finally, Oremmulf has two gates, one is next door to the station, the other is 44.8 AU away. So you benefit rigging your inty (in my case ares) and "cargo" frig/destro with Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer rigs (for warp speed). You can get them for 130k usually.

All in all I was able to get a storyline mission each 60 minutes in average. if I remember correctly, I was at -9.07 absolute standings with amarr when I started. The two storylines you bank you 0.249% and 0.42% faction standings, while declining missions costs you 0.01%. I was declining in the like of 15-20 missions per story-line. With a starting point so low, your standing goes up quite fast as they are relative. (ie, smash the supplier costs you around 20% standing, but decreases your absolute standing by like 0.05 point when you are at -9, while the 0.42% standing increase from storylines bank you around 0.15 point). That means too that the -0.01% from declining a mission has virtually no impact on your standings. -0.24% + 0.24% = ... +0.23999%! So feel free to spam decline ;)

I don't know if it's the fastest, but it's simple. (And I was able to remote margin trade in Rens during the warps, keeping me occupied, and banking me... quite a bit ^^).

However I didn't post to tell you this (even if it somewhat got out of hand :P), but because that I believe the 'plan' would benefit from a more detailed section about what to do when your faction standings are below -5. FW, cross agents (or my lazy method). Of course, with absolute standing in the -9 region, diplomacy 5 is, imo, the absolute first priority.