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Bootleg Jack
ACME Mineral and Gas
#1 - 2012-04-08 16:02:51 UTC
I've been running 4s with a group of friends, but we have a racially mixed group so we have to decline some missions.

Today we got online, got 2 decliners in a row and are done for the day because of the 4 hour limit.

Are these rules designed for kids on summer vacation? 4 hours is the whole play time for a day for someone who works for a living.

I understand they don't want people to cherry pick missions, but 4 hours is excessive.

I'm an American, English is my second language...
nahjustwarpin
SUPER DUPER SPACE TRUCKS
#2 - 2012-04-08 16:16:41 UTC
you should find next mission hub close to the one you are doing missions for and gain access to lvl 4's in there.

you can complain on 4h limit, but that's the best wat to circumvent this.
Kerfira
Kerfira Corp
#3 - 2012-04-08 16:31:26 UTC
You don't HAVE to decline missions.... You CHOOSE to!

In EVE, any choice you make have consequences! Live with it!

And as the other guy said, there are more than one level 4 agent in the game Roll
Celeritas 5k
Connoisseurs of Candid Coitus
#4 - 2012-04-08 16:33:53 UTC
The standings loss isn't THAT bad, you could just take it.
Gabbie Tinks
#5 - 2012-04-08 17:42:05 UTC
use the agent finder and find several level 4 agents in same station/system/constellation....then you can move to another when it caps out.....also you can run up an alt fairly quickly with standings...to use just to accept missions to give you another chance at an acceptable mission.
Bootleg Jack
ACME Mineral and Gas
#6 - 2012-04-08 18:06:02 UTC
plus, it is easy to circumvent, so it is even more pointless Big smile

I'm an American, English is my second language...
Vito Antonio
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-04-08 18:40:26 UTC
It is limitations like this that prevent EVE from attracting new players/keeping existing ones.
Vaal Erit
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-04-08 19:27:32 UTC
Vito Antonio wrote:
It is limitations like this that prevent EVE from attracting new players/keeping existing ones.


Whiners gonna whine.

Anyways, has the OP even tried to run one of these "decliner" missions or take the 4hr standings hit from the agent or is he too scared because people in the NPC corp tell him he'll be screwed. Because the standings hit you take is negligible aka it is nothing if you only do a faction mission every once in awhile. Unless you just got access to level 4 missions today you can take a small dip in standings and not notice any ill effects. In fact you can always repair your standings so going negative is not that big of a deal anymore. It's a completely fair system and if you choose to decline and the only thing you do in EVE is missions, then that is your problem.

Heck, whenever I see a mission to kill faction rats I go "hooray!" because those missions are bank, tags go for tons of isk right now.
Klymer
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2012-04-08 19:47:09 UTC
Yeah, why limit yourself to missions? Just doing missions in this game is like going to a bar and only ordering water.
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-04-08 22:22:57 UTC
Bootleg Jack wrote:
I've been running 4s with a group of friends, but we have a racially mixed group so we have to decline some missions.

Today we got online, got 2 decliners in a row and are done for the day because of the 4 hour limit.

Are these rules designed for kids on summer vacation? 4 hours is the whole play time for a day for someone who works for a living.

I understand they don't want people to cherry pick missions, but 4 hours is excessive.


So out of your entire "group" only one of you can pull missions? When Ive run with a friend of mine, with 2 agents in the same station, we would have to each pull basically 4 missions in a row we didnt want to run in order to run into this problem. not to mention at this point our standing with the corp is so high the loss from declining too many in a row is very minor.

HTFU already.
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#11 - 2012-04-08 22:29:54 UTC
1. get faction standing > 5.0
2. ???
3. profit

I should buy an Ishtar.