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Alt standings grind to 5.0 for Lai Dai
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Kalhin Curze
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-02-03 19:29:24 UTC
Just a quick question,

Would it be a quicker grind flying the L3 distribution missions on my alts (3 toons fleeted up and sharing) or blitzing L3 combat missions with may main and sharing with 4 toons....?
The Chronophage
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-02-03 21:37:44 UTC
i find blitzing lvl 3 kill missions much easier to lvl up my main, i presume it would be the same for 4 characters. Too much jumping gates is a waste of time.
Gaitrie
MagmaTech Industries
#3 - 2012-02-03 21:50:37 UTC
Yep as you need to get back the same ammount of jumps to the agents again... so I rather blitz kill missions then jumping gates

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Kalhin Curze
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-02-04 11:41:57 UTC
Cheers guys. I'll give that a go
Gritchee
X-com Industries inc.
#5 - 2012-02-04 13:00:38 UTC
If I understand the question correctly, It would be faster to run lvl3 distribution missions with your 3 alts, than running lvl3 combat with your main and sharing with 3 other alts.
Deus Fury
Absolute Order
Absolute Honor
#6 - 2012-02-04 16:09:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Deus Fury
Actually with the number of toons your talking about, its going to take you a while to grind them all to 5 either way. You are probably going to be better off doing both at the same time. Have the none combat skilled alt run distri missions while the main is blitzing kill missions.

But this is just my opinion.

I have Distribution skilled to 4 on this toon, with access to a lvl 4 agent. The standings bump from each mission is far less then that you get from blitzing combat missions.
Kalhin Curze
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-02-04 16:39:42 UTC
Deus Fury wrote:
Actually with the number of toons your talking about, its going to take you a while to grind them all to 5 either way. You are probably going to be better off doing both at the same time. Have the none combat skilled alt run distri missions while the main is blitzing kill missions.

But this is just my opinion.

I have Distribution skilled to 4 on this toon, with access to a lvl 4 agent. The standings bump from each mission is far less then that you get from blitzing combat missions.


Yeah, distri missions don't give much increase. I'm at 3.37 on each of the 3 alts so I'll run distri with 3 while blitzing with the fourth.

Cheers
Cyniac
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2012-02-04 17:52:24 UTC
Both is the correct answer.

Get your combat pilot out there flying combat missions

Your other pilots do the distribution missions *while* your combat toon is doing his thing. Autopilot to station is a wonderful thing.


The best best way is to aim for a storyline agent with the character you want to raise standings with - not familiar with Lai Dai to say if it has any suitable ones for you though.
Kalhin Curze
Doomheim
#9 - 2012-02-04 18:05:29 UTC
Cheers guys,

Decided to spend the required 5 days to get the alts into a basic (very basic!) Drake. As long as they can tank the L3's while my Tengu alt destroys, should make things much faster
papamike
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-02-05 09:11:03 UTC
Actually, if you can get your alts up to a lvl 3 agent and you have a combat main, accept missions combat missions for your alts but get your main to run them in the same gang. This will still distribute corp standings evenly, but you will be able lvl up their faction standing evenly. Alternatively, if you have the isk, visit data centres with the corresponding tags and you can effectively 'buy' faction standings.

I did this to quickly lvl my faction standing up on my alts. And if its just lvl 4 agents you are looking for, this will give you access to all agents across the faction.

Cosmos mission running is another option too. Between data centres and cosmos it took me about a week of pretty non dedicated mission running to get from 0 to a standing of 6.

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