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Mission Difficulty by region
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Nagamor
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-01-09 18:14:35 UTC
Does mission difficulty and reward scale by security status? I was running missions in a 0.7 at level 4 that were easily within my means and now i'm seeing missions that are just a bit beyond my reach in the same ship configuration but in 0.5's. They also seem to pay a bit better.

So I'm wondering, do the varying empire regions have more or less difficult missions or am I seeing the result of lower security status impact on mission generation?
Mahadiva
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-01-09 18:39:49 UTC
All I see is higher mission payout in lower sec systems. I notice no changes in bounties or difficulty.
FlinchingNinja Kishunuba
Crunchy Crunchy
#3 - 2012-01-09 21:02:22 UTC
Mahadiva wrote:
All I see is higher mission payout in lower sec systems. I notice no changes in bounties or difficulty.


This.
Nagamor
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2012-01-09 21:06:34 UTC
Weird. I was in a Level 4 Gallente mission that flat trumped some of the hardest Amarr missions I'd ever seen. Maybe I just got lucky.
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#5 - 2012-01-09 21:08:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Zhilia Mann
The missions themselves do not change based on security status. The mission mix will, however, change based on region and even by agent -- and some agents might give a slightly harder mix. I've never seen this correlated by security status though -- and it would be very hard to do in the first place as missions that are "hard" for one ship/pilot might be a cakewalk for others and vice versa.

Edit:

Nagamor wrote:
Weird. I was in a Level 4 Gallente mission that flat trumped some of the hardest Amarr missions I'd ever seen. Maybe I just got lucky.


Which mission? Methinks you just got lucky/unlucky depending on how you look at it.
Mahadiva
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-01-09 21:13:56 UTC
Nagamor wrote:
Weird. I was in a Level 4 Gallente mission that flat trumped some of the hardest Amarr missions I'd ever seen. Maybe I just got lucky.

Well if you changed regions from Amarr to Galente space then the rats you face also changed. If your ship was set up to fight/tank Sanshas and you're doing Serp missions now then they would probably seem harder.
Jeicam Mmis
BEEFCO.
#7 - 2012-01-09 21:48:24 UTC
missions won't get harder, but you do get more LP in lower security system. I noticed 0.7 security system will max out at around 7.5K LP per, while in 0.4 lowsec lvl4's, Im easy pulling 10+K LP for the same missions.

To clarify.. it's the agent's location, not mission location, that determines the LP.
Goose99
#8 - 2012-01-09 22:41:55 UTC
Mahadiva wrote:
Nagamor wrote:
Weird. I was in a Level 4 Gallente mission that flat trumped some of the hardest Amarr missions I'd ever seen. Maybe I just got lucky.

Well if you changed regions from Amarr to Galente space then the rats you face also changed. If your ship was set up to fight/tank Sanshas and you're doing Serp missions now then they would probably seem harder.


He was probably in Serp Blockade and got damped.Lol
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#9 - 2012-01-09 23:11:59 UTC
Goose99 wrote:
He was probably in Serp Blockade and got damped.Lol


That was definitely my first thought.
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#10 - 2012-01-10 11:32:46 UTC
Or maybe he went in bugged Worlds Collide (Gallente version) and got full pocket aggro. Did they fix it while I was away from EvE?

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Nadine Le'Slut
The-Four-HorseMen
#11 - 2012-01-10 12:50:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Nadine Le'Slut
security status of the system your agent resides in (not where the mission takes place) _does_ have an effect on the difficulty of your mission.
for example you get harder rats in a 0.3 blockade than in a 0.8 blockade
not more rats, but higher grade ones that might have ewar and better tanks/weaponry, thus making it harder

check their bounties

at least that was the case a year ago when i sporadically did some lowsec missions
Caellach Marellus
Stormcrows
#12 - 2012-01-10 12:59:04 UTC
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Or maybe he went in bugged Worlds Collide (Gallente version) and got full pocket aggro. Did they fix it while I was away from EvE?


The Gurista pocket has always been a blobfest of NPCs.

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Mahadiva
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#13 - 2012-01-10 13:07:39 UTC
Nadine Le'**** wrote:
security status of the system your agent resides in (not where the mission takes place) _does_ have an effect on the difficulty of your mission.
for example you get harder rats in a 0.3 blockade than in a 0.8 blockade
not more rats, but higher grade ones that might have ewar and better tanks/weaponry, thus making it harder

check their bounties

at least that was the case a year ago when i sporadically did some lowsec missions

Maybe there's a difference between low and high (and null) sec. I dunno, I'm too carebear to venture into lowsec. But I've noticed no difference between, say, a 0.8 agent and a 0.6 agent in terms of bounties.
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#14 - 2012-01-10 13:19:58 UTC
Nagamor wrote:
Weird. I was in a Level 4 Gallente mission that flat trumped some of the hardest Amarr missions I'd ever seen. Maybe I just got lucky.



Damage types also make a difference. you're throwing out a mix of Thermal and EM. Serps are thermal weak, but not so much em weak.

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Nagamor
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#15 - 2012-01-10 16:49:10 UTC
The mission was Smashing the Supplier. I don't doubt my fitting, I've done enough 4's to fully grasp mission-specific hardeners.

In the end, it required a bit of kiting. Speed Tank Battleship.. weeeeee...
Linda Shadowborn
Dark Steel Industries
#16 - 2012-01-10 18:39:39 UTC
Smashing the supplier is one of the harder missions so that would be the reason.
Jeicam Mmis
BEEFCO.
#17 - 2012-01-10 18:54:33 UTC
Nagamor wrote:
The mission was Smashing the Supplier. I don't doubt my fitting, I've done enough 4's to fully grasp mission-specific hardeners.

In the end, it required a bit of kiting. Speed Tank Battleship.. weeeeee...


Speed tanking is the way to go. Should take about 3 min. Proof.

(dual 250mm proteuses, I'm certain it can be done even quicker with a couple of machs, but I've been watching my armarr standing lately :P )