Missions & Complexes

Few questions about getting into L4 running

• Are there any mission hubs that are better to be running missions in? (Sorry if I missed a guide explaining it)
• I'll be using a Kronos to run the missions with either a Shield or Armor so I'm not sure if other agents will be easier/better than others.
• Any good guides? I found this one for burner missions and Eve-Survival for basic mission info. Any other good ones that I should check out?

EDIT: Added links to fits I was thinking of using.

Depends on who and what faction you want to run missions for. If you want to stay in High Sec, try to stay away from systems on the main routes to and from Low Sec and Null. Especially, those near and around Jita and other trade hubs.

I run missions for the Amarr Navy and spent a while looking at systems through the Beta Map before settling down on one specific system. Island systems are usually preferred within a couple of jumps from Low Sec. Usually 0.5 and 0.6 systems are ideal because they have higher LP payouts than higher rated systems.

I know that systems in and around the Khanid Kingdom are pretty empty. These are also good systems for scanning down DED sites and getting escalations.

Once you get your skills up the best way to make good ISK per hour is to blitz for SP. Longterm this means running missions in as lower a security as possible (0.5 generally for hisec) and getting as good a ISK/LP ratio as possible.

A guaranteed way to NOT get good ISK/LP is run one of the navies as you are competing with the FW guys who make a cr@pload of SP. You might get 7 mill ISK per 10,000 SP if you are lucky

There are two ways to get maximum ISK/LP:

• watch the markets and find very high ISK/LP ratio items and go run mission for corps selling them. Returns here can be as high as 40 to 50 mill ISK per 10,000 LP but you need to know the markets well and be on your toes
• run mission for a corp with consistently good but not amazing ISK/LP. An example here is SOE that consistently returns 15 mill to 20 mill ISK per 10,000 LP traded just selling Sister's probe launchers.

Apanake isn't bad either if you want to run for SoE (due to the good lp conversion), but Lanngisi does have better local chat.

Personally I've found running for a different corp with an average LP conversion better. I just prefer having 2 lvl 4 agents in the same station to avoid those (admittedly rare) hits to turning down 2 anti-faction missions within 4hrs.

In some ways, Apanake is better than Lanngisi because (at least in my opinion) I like the frequent Burner missions that I get sent to in neighbouring lowsec. Adds frisson when someone either scans you down in their Stratios but can't fit through the gate, or they come through in their Astero or whatever, and the Burner rat switches focus on them and blaps them - I like the occasional extra loot drops that they provide

Trust Partners have better LP to ISK conversion rates than any other empire corp. They have two L4 agents in Molden Heath, close to Hek and Rens. They tend to send you to lowsec systems quite often, so still not a good choice if you wanna run missions all day long.

Thukker Mix should have the same ratio, but there are two cons:
1-Lowest security status for L4 is 0.8
2-No L3 security agence in HS

But to be honest, I think that it is not really an issue. Higher SS is often synonym for less mission in LS, that might compensate for the loss of LP per mission. And farming L2 to gets enough standing for L4 is not that long.