Missions & Complexes

plus travel time to and from station. but yea I usually jump in a travel ceptor and go do the mats for war ones when the first one offered is about to expire. My last run was 4x of those in 11 mins. Plus probably ~3 mins on each side for travel, usually 3-4 jumps away. looking further back another run of 3 in 7 mins. And yea every now and then do a combat storyline to keep the standings up.

As far as agent standings go, I'm at 5 something with one of the agents I use and 6 something with another. I should probably start declining more missions. I do a few of the less optimal ones mostly just because then I don't have to worry about standings. Although I also have a bad run every now and then, but also when your standings go negative any increase is huge, and any penalty is small.

I have alts that can pull missions and fix it if I do blow my standings, but so far I haven't had to use them.

Im guessing your doing that with a decently trained combat pilot spamming lev 3/4s? and not attempting to balance the other factions standing. For a low skilled hauler pilot it is NOT that fast to get the standings up. I should know, I've spent many nights trucking through space 10 hours at a time watching netflicks and I don't have my gall/cal fac standings over 4 yet. Eventually I will get them both to 5, but it takes awhile.

If it is so easy to get upto 8-9 standings for you, you might want to consider getting into the character market. You could make some decent isk that way.

Courier missions are great for agent and corp standings if your not a combat char, with the right agent and if you get lucky with your trips. Using a cynabal and spamming lev 2 combat missions blitz style no loot or salvage feels like it gives me better results though then the lev 3 dist missions with same/better rewards from the agent it seems. I could be wrong though.

The issue with the courier missions are you either hit one agent and just fly back and forth to his system and that can take a while when he sends you 5-7 jumps away repeatly or you are running multiple agents as you often find a new agent to truck for at your destination. Thats when you end up all over Sinq Laison getting standing for several corps and many different agents. In the long run it works, but I wouldn't say it was fast. Sitting in a dead end system and spamming combat lev 2/3s blitz style is where the speed is.

That requires a bit of investment though, at least to get into a crusier and fly it half decently. If your looking for a jita alt or a 1 month/plex faction booster the courier missions work with minimal investment skill point wise. I mean really mim industrial 4, juryrigging 1 and some basic nav skills and your done.

Having done both I prefer the courier missions as I don't have to pay that much attention. Honestly the number of times I forgot to recall my hobs before i hit warp out, because of an action scene... I get sloppy when I'm drunk,distracted and tired.