Missions & Complexes

This has only just struck me now, but I'm very aware that this idea might have occurred to others from Day Zero...in which case, sorry! :)


I don't really mind the longish jumps that agents usually (though not always, of course) send you on - seems a fair price for the new content. I'm not the greatest fan of them, though.

1). To cut down travel time a bit, identify the general area to where the agent usually sends you - of course, there are always outliers that pop up closer if you're lucky, but you can generally be sure that there's one or two particular areas where most of the missions will spawn. For example, in the case of missions from Apanake, that would most likely be near Madomi, Emsar (I'm sure you can find others), or in the case of missions from Osmon, the prime target will probably be Reisen (*****).

2). If you have the resources, you then proceed to buy complete fits and hulls (plus ammo and cap charges, and anything else you'll need) for all the ships that you'll be running Burners with.

3). Have all this stuff sent to the systems you identified earlier.

4). When offered a Burner mission, you can now travel in style (and speeeeeeeed!) between your mission site and agent station! I use a speedy-fit interceptor with an MSE, to (help) protect against smartbombing camps that you sometime find in the odd lowsec system along your path. Near-perfect safety.

5). ???

6). Profit!


Obviously, there is a not-insignificant cost to having duplicate fitted hulls lying around the place. It's not particularly cheap. However, I have found that jetting around in an interceptor not only cuts down travel time significantly - less noticeable if you're flying to a mission in your Garmur, much more so if you're in an Onyx - but also, because of the time saving, you can proceed to the next mission a bit quicker than if you were covering 5+ jumps in a cruiser.

Yes, this is for the terminally lazy.


Fly safe, and remember that Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

The anti-smartie fit came particularly in useful on the way back to Osmon, coming through Akora, when a disco geddon tried to get me with 8 large ones. 30% shield and off I jumped....

Yup - inertia stabs and a nanofibre. Not sure if that's the optimal getup, but it seems to work well enough :) I've lost a Wolf (I think it was) to a camp going through that area...luckily, it was on the way out, but it would've been especially painful if the cargohold had a Dark Blood Warp Scram or something!

Thank you Bigpuns! I like to think they look good in their own right, but secretly I use them for spying past all of the forum bullshit that seems to be cropping up nowadays

So far, I am getting much less irritated by the trolls and the like, as their nonsense gibberings are much more transparent than before. Give them a try!

Not sure if the extra dock/undock and warp would be compensated for by the faster warp speed.

Yeah, pootling around in frigates aren't too painful, but being faced with a 13+ jump roundtrip route in an Onyx just makes me groan a little.

Yes, exactly! For example, as I mission in Osmon, there are already two L4 agents in system - plus another one in Wuos, a couple of jumps away. Cycling between these in an interceptor and to the further-flung mission sites makes it quite easy to rack up a load of missions at any one time and knocking them down - and sometimes you get particularly lucky, if the agents send you to the same (or close) systems.


That's a good day

You betcha.

I'd still prefer a regional mission market so you don't have to dock and undock hundreds of times a day to accept missions...