Missions & Complexes

So I've been running level 3s for Sisters of Eve, trying to get to level 4s. I've tried using the agent finder and moving around from place to place but keep getting sent to low-sec pirate-infested sh!t holes and rat holes, and it wastes a bunch of time and money and isn't fun.

As an example, I finally got a storyline to put me to level 4s (presuming I completed it) but it sent me to yet another low-sec pirate-infested sh!t hole. 'Great,' I thought, 'dont take the mission and grind out yet another 16 of these boring stupid missions, or accept it and get harassed by some a-hole and waste a bunch of time and money in yet another low-sec pirate-infested sh!t hole.' I finally figured I had no choice but to accept. I wouldn't dare take my battleship or gnosis there (I'm stupid, but I'm not *that* stupid), so I trucked across the stupid galaxy and bought a caracal, stuck whatever minimum garbage modules I could put on that would do the job, trucked back, and tried to run the mission. Yeah, as soon as I get in there, I see combat probes on d-scan, warp-out. Try again later, same problem, warp-out, log off. Log in next day, try again, see the probes, try to complete the stupid mission anyway, but pirate a-hole crashes in so I warp-out. Wait a couple of hours, get into noob ship, go back, he's still sitting there waiting on me. So open mission book, click 'quit mission,' take standings hit, try again.

I just need to know one thing. Where's the best area for running SOE corporate missions so I can go ahead and get to level 4? "Best area" meaning little or no chance of being sent to more low-sec sh!t holes and rat holes.

Thanks.

Good job taking my quote out of context. Do you work for the news in some capacity? Are you a presstitute? The full quote and context is:

Well like I said, I used the agent finder and have moved around several times trying to find different areas. i always go to high-sec. But the available agents I have keep sending me to low-sec. I guess I haven't been able to find the 'right' agents, or they don't exist, thus this post.

EDIT:

Checking the agent finder in the Eve client, I get only these level 3 agents: Arnon 0.6, Simela 0.5, Pochelympe 0.6. All of those systems are next to or surrounded by low-sec, and will send you into low-sec. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

According to that logic L4 mission agents must be also close to low sec. But they are not.

If all you want is a couple of SOE standing poins you can concider to go to Quier to gring L2 missions in passive tanked Gnosis...
But I did the grind in Simela and do not remember that much trouble with low sec missions.

Hmm... tried to figure out how to do it but couldn't. Any help?

One thing to do is the SoE Epic Arc if you haven't already that will get you some decent standings. Additionally you could just go to a Level 4 hub for SoE such as Osmon or Apanake and ask to join somoene for help boosting your standings.

I use to run missions out of both of those for SoE and would've gladly fleeted with someone just to salvage the wrecks so I could keep blasting and sharing the standing increases.

I do remember level 3s being a royal pain for sending to lowsec and think I just did 2s till I got to 4s myself but that didn't take too long as I could blitz through them very quickly.

Make sure you have Social and Connections skills trained up to level 5. Connections will increase your current standings and Social will increase the amount of standing gained for completing missions.

I suggest grinding some low level agents to build up SoE Corporation to +5.00 standing so you can access level 4 agents. If you run Distribution agents you can easily build up standings quite quickly.

Good luck.



DMC

blitzing lv3s should give you far more standing than doing distribution missions.

I was doing lv3s in Simela during a few months. I think the agent there doesn't often send you to low-sec. I got the missions against Amarr more. If you got a mission that you don't like, just decline that. Don't mind the timer, you can quickly earn the standing back by doing more missions.
The real pain in Simela is that... the nearest storyline agent is in Sheroo and it's actually not that near.

As far as I remember, Simela is the only hi-sec system having lv3 SOE security agent, but I guess some low-sec systems with lv3 SOE security agent are quite quiet. If the agents there pay more standing like they pay more isk and LP, maybe it's a good idea to do missions there in some fast pvp-fitted ships, like assault frigates, T3Ds and T3Cs.

You always get the storyline mission from the nearest storyline agent of the same corp, and the mission type is decided by the agent's division. It's only random when you have more than one nearest storyline agent.

I certainly can't argue with your expertise, as your credentials seem quite impressive. I'll look into it. By the way, do you also recommend training up, for instance 'security connections' once one is to the point of running level 4 security missions?