Missions & Complexes

Sentenced 1989,

That's excellent news. I'm sure your standings is much better with Connections level 5 which is what the Factions, Corporations and Agents look at for access.

Gratz on a job well done.



DMC

Great standings work. Thanks for the update.

In no time at all you'll be over +9.00 standing with the 4 main Empire Factions.

I wouldn't worry about Ammatar standing as long as it remains positive.



DMC

ISD Max Trix,

Thank you very much. I was mistaken and thought threads that were sticky didn't get locked. I guess after a set amount of time all threads, regardless if they are sticky or not, get locked. In the future I'll do my best to keep this updated and hopefully not bother you guys. I know you're all very busy taking care of other stuff..

Thanks again,



DMC

Akatosh Draconis,

Thank you very much for the support and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. May 'The Plan' help you as much as it's helped me.



DMC

Taishoku Mayaki,

Thank you very much for posting. It's great to hear 'The Plan' is helping you.

This thread was originally created for players to post questions and comments pertaining to the Faction Standing Repair Plan. Obviously I didn't keep track of it and it got locked. However thanks to ISD, the thread is active again and I will definitely make it a point to keep this thread active and updated.

Thanks again.


DMC

Yadot,

Thank you for the kind words. It was a pleasure to help you obtain info regarding derived standings.

Wish you lot's of luck and much success with 'The Plan'.



DMC

That's a very good question. Probably why nobody has jumped in to answer it. I've been having some spotty Internet issues.

Anyway, sounds like you're talking about Cosmos Missions. I wanna say it's half of what was to be gained. I've never been in that situation so I can't really give a definite answer on the amount of loss. A Senior GM would know the answer.

The main thing is most Cosmos Missions can only be completed once in the life of the character for Faction Standing increase. Do not fail, quit, decline or let those mission offers expire. It could lock out access to other Agents.


Yeah, at +9.99 that would be a huge hit. Just have to do another run through the Epic Arcs.

If you follow up on your question with CCP and get an answer, please post it here so we can all be updated. Wish I could have been more helpful.


DMC

Well, I'm sorry to hear that. At least you completed the mission and got the Faction standing increase. It sounds like the Caldari Cosmos. Specifically the almost always camped Ihakana system which is the only way in and out of Otomainen system.

When I ran Cosmos, I first researched the Agents mission series, then acquired the items on my own as best I could, either by the usual seek and destroy run of the Complexes or if needed, purchasing the item from Public Contracts. Then I'd collect everything and do one run to the Agent and quickly complete each mission in the series. That plan worked great most of the time, however every once in a while I'd have to complete a special Security or Distribution mission.

Again, sorry to hear that and very good advice. I always used a Cloaked ship for running in or through Low Sec, mainly a T3 Cruiser. Usually I'd wait till just before Downtime or right after Cluster Startup to make my run. If I had to, I'd log out while in space at a Safe Spot. For Otomainen system, I researched all of the Agents there, collected up all of the items I could, then loaded them up in a Giant Secure Container and used a Blockade Runner to transport it to the system, made a deep safe spot, anchored it and went back for my T3 Cruiser.

I actually used my Blockade Runner to complete the last Empire Agent located in that system, an Amarr Cosmos Agent - Akemon Tolan who's trapped in the Prison (3rd) Stage of the Guristas Complex. I already had all of his required items and I thought it would be a cake walk to just cruise in cloaked, complete each mission and then warp out. I warped into the 1st stage cloaked, made my way to the 2nd stage gate without being decloaked by the NPC's, warped cloaked into the 2nd stage, did the same thing and made my way to the 3rd stage gate which wouldn't let me access it.

Not good, all NPC's had to be destroyed to unlock the gate. While I was sitting there cloaked deciding on what course of action I should take, 2 player ships came into the room and immediately started destroying the NPC's, I watched the show and when they accessed the gate to the 3rd stage, I followed them in cloaked and watched them destroy all the NPC's there as well. Talk about perfect timing, all I needed was access to the Agent. After they were done and warped out, I thanked them in Local for helping me to complete the Agents mission series. After explaining the situation to them, they commended me on trying a different approach and making it work.

Yeah, usually good advice. I think most campers are looking to pad their KillBoard count so they'll definitely wait for the ship following the scout. Personally I think if there was 3 or 4 players in a fleet running Cosmos, the campers wouldn't even bother with them, too much trouble when they can just wait a bit and jump on a lone ship.

In fact, the only scouting I did was with Starmap stats, never had an Alt scout. I did enlist a few friends to help out on some of the tougher missions and I did lose a couple of ships in the process of completing all of the Empire Cosmos Agents. My main reason for doing Cosmos was for the standings to prove that 'The Plan' would work. The 2nd reason was to acquire all of the Cosmos BPC's and last but not least, I enjoyed the story plots of each Empires Cosmos Constellation.

Anyway, I'm glad you were successful despite the trouble encountered. Hopefully you'll find some useful info in my reply. Good luck and much success on accomplishing your goal of achieving +10.00 Faction Standing.


DMC

Azazel Drakonis,

Thank you very much for posting.

It makes me very happy to know that after all these years 'The Plan' is still helping players.

Thanks again,



DMC

Rigo Kajjar,

I'm glad to hear 'The Plan' has been very helpful for you.

Thank you very much for posting.



DMC