Missions & Complexes

ISK or LP? Aside from training your relevant Social skills all to V, you'll want agents in 0.5 systems (these pay out the highest ISK and LP).

If you are thinking of high sec then either Thukker or Sisters of Eve are the go-to answers. As you mentioned Heimatar, Thukker might be better as there a couple of agents nearby.

Thank you all. Im going to Lanngisi now for gaining their (SOE) trust. Then im thinking to start Epic Arc missions.

with high faction standings the 4 hour rule doesn't mean squat, I decline so many missions just because I don't want to do them. There is however a huge issue with the constellation layout meaning burner missions will be many jumps away, and also lowsec is very probable. making the LP very hard to farm. lanngisi is very special in that almost all burner missions will be 2-3 jumps away.

heck if lanngisi was a 0.7 it would still probably be one of the best agents in game. the fact that it is one of the lowest truesec highsec systems just makes it awesome.

Found the problem for you

Seriously though, Mach + Hyperspatials and mid-grade ascendancies + warp speed implant.

+1 to this.

Fly the right ship kitted out the right way way and 150au aint no thang.

Skill Extractors are your new friend.

Usually I agree with you but this time I think you're wrong.

First of all level 4 is the sweet spot for skills, regardless of the skill group type. In fact out of all the Social skills, I'd say Diplomacy is the only skill that should be trained one level at a time when needed.

Also you've got a few things backwards as well. Connections skill is what gives your character a standing buffer by increasing your current positive standing amount.

Social skill is what gets your standings up quick with Agents, Corporations and Factions with increased standing gains for completing missions.

Fast Talk skill boosts your personal security status anywhere at anytime in missions, exploration sites, asteroid belts, etc.

Not to mention Social skills help to reduce fees for reprocessing items at stations and dealing with Broker Market transactions.

All in all it doesn't take very long to train up all of the skills listed in the Social group, especially with attributes reset for high Charisma which also helps to quickly train up Leadership skills too. Aside from a few Trade skills and Neural Enhancement skills, that's about it for Charisma based skills. After all those skills are done trained up, will never have to deal with Charisma high attribute remap again.

Anyway, doesn't matter if a player is only going to do missions once in a while, if they're going to do exploration, kill NPC's in asteroid belts or even do a trading career, training Social skills will help a lot.


DMC

Just saying what I have and that it works for me.

My point regarding connections was that at high levels it has very low returns. Once your standings are up it doesn't seem to matter if I have 7.2 or 7.5 standings. And on my alt I have 9.97 standings to a corp with or without connections. However at low standing levels connections will raise your 0.1 standing to 1.21 which is great to jump to lv2 missions right away. And I haven't reprocessed anything in a while but there used to be a tax cap at 6.67 standings so it might be useful there but that can be solved with a bit more grinding, and I don't think there will be all that much of a difference between connections at lv 2, 3, or 4.

And with the current standings mechanics and the amount of missions I decline diplomacy is my buffer, I can take my agent standings down to almost -4 and can still be offered missions. I typically keep my faction standings in the 7s, so I have a ton of wiggle room there and connections doesn't really help a whole ton. Diplo 5 almost sounds worth it to train, but like I said I never ran into an issue at lv3 so it doesn't seem to be an issue.

I agree they don't take long to train, and I've done pretty much all my training in social with off attributes, and I think 3 is fine for most, but having 2 or 4 doesn't really make too much of a difference either.

It really depends. I've gotten over 2k ISK/LP with some standard Empire corporations.