Missions & Complexes

imo LP is the main reward, then bounties, then mission reward and bonus (I lump the last two together as I almost always get both). I haven't looked at loot/salvage prices lately but typically they aren't worth taking the time to go back for. If you can fit an MTU in your cargo and salvage drones in the drone bay it is worthwhile to grab whatever wrecks are easy to loot but not worth waiting around to get all the loot. Faction missions are a huge exception as the tags dropped replace bounties, and a good number of tags are selling way over their npc price.

I mostly blitz missions to gain LP, although you could kill everything and then bounties would be your #1 income and move LP down to #2.

If you have the right skills, ships, implants, run the misisons correctly and of course for the right corp and buy/sell the right items with LP you should get 250mill/h, ish. Link in sig.

There is a range of LP which depends on sec status. So in 1.0 space the LP range between worst and best missions might be (not sure, it has been a while) 3k - 6k LP per mission. The missions seem to gain about 10% more LP per tenth of security, right down to 0.0 space where the range is about 8k to 15k LP for the non burner or FW missions.

So a lot of people who do L4's that want to stay in high sec would say a 0.5 system, preferably within a high sec constellation (so u wont be sent to low sec for some missions) would be the optimal sec status to do it in. And I think the range there is about 5k - 10k, maybe 15k for a top paying burner.

But its not just the space it is the LP store. Say you found an agent in a 0.5 system and were making 5-10k LP per mission. If that agent is a member of an npc corp whose best LP cashout item was 1,000 isk per LP, then the LP for each mission would be worth 5-10m isk. Whereas if the best item is 2,000 isk per LP then the LP for each mission would be worth 10m-20m isk. For doing the exact same mission in the exact same sec space your payout could double. Or if you cashed out on a high volume (easily sellable) low profit item it'd halved.

When people talk about 200m+ isk per hour they are nearly always talking about 2k per LP items, irrespective of whether they are actually achieving that when they cash out. So if you are working on cashing out for 1k items then that 200m becomes 100m per hour, without doing any less work.

So it is definitely worth researching the corp you work for properly. Maybe a corp with 2 or more agents clustered near each other (so you can cycle for blitzable missions more easily) would be more advantageous than a high LP ticket item with only 1 or 2 agents. Or maybe if the sec status of the cluster is 1.0 and the solo agent is 0.5 you'd find it better to do the solo agent. There really are a lot of variables to be able to succinctly summarize.

I generally start with fuzzwork to find corps with 1-2k items, then search for their agents on eve-agents to find a cluster of them that I am able to work for, preferably in a 0.5 system, but not always. Other times I might look for a cluster of L4's agents working for the same faction and work on some 2k LP stores and some 1k LP stores simultaneously.

Hence why I said nearly always. So when you say 100% false you are factually incorrect.

I know there are some who can consistently make that amount - most however do not.

Also, the math works just as well on your example. So if you were cashing out for 1.3k LP and making 250m ph, and someone else was cashing out for 1k per LP they would be making 192m an hour. That is the point I was trying to make, that the "best mission" is dependant on the cash out value. And that newbros shouldn't beat themselves up over why does he make 250m an hour and I only make 100m an hour or w/e, it is all about optimising your approach over time.

if I remember right it was something like 100mil isk/hour and then 100k lp/hour. It's been a while since I actively ran burners so not sure if that was an exceptional hour or not, also may or may not have been before or after the burner offer rate nerf. Although at 1.5k isk/lp it lines up with Anize's 250mil/h claim.