All About EVE Online

After you finish doing the tutorial career agents you may be uncertain where to go next. Well you have the option at this point to go anywhere you want. If you want to mine you can go find a nice system and start mining ore for sale or to process and sell or to start manufacturing items. Just remember that in systems with 0.8 security or less you will encounter NPC pirates (or rats as they are called) in the belts, so do no mine away from keyboard (afk). Also you must always be on guard for player pirates (or prats as I like to call them). And in Space below 0.4 security these prats can attack you without intervention of CONCORD.

You can find a corporation to help you out with more training or to find a purpose. Later on even start a corporation of your own. This corp could even have access to low sec space or 0.0 space. In these areas you can mine, do mission running, or go ratting and make some good ISK.

You can also go find more agents on your own to run missions. That’s what this article will be about, finding agents that you can learn from and earn ISK or even Loyalty Points (LP). Running missions will also help with your standing with that NPC Corporation and even with that Empire (Race).

There are several ways to find an agent.

•  Random searching of regions or systems stations.
•  Select a NPC corporation you want to work with and find what agents they have and where.
•  Open up the map (F10) and set your ‘World Map Control Panel’ to show ‘My Available Agents’.
•  Use outside links to find an agent.

I will cover all these methods in this article but first I want to give you some idea of what mission types are out there and what you can expect to be doing. There are several mission types which require you to perform tasks for the agent, not un-similar to the tutorial agents. All Agents have a Level and a Quality score. The lower the level the less risky, dangerous, or difficult a mission will be. The lower the quality score of the agent, the lower the reward. Your security status with that corporation will also limit who you can talk too. You could think of the tutorial Mission agents as level 0.

Here is a list of agent types and the mission you can expect from them. This information is gathered from several sources, and because these are randomized you may encounter a different percentage.

 

	Accounting:	9% Kill, 91% Courier
	Administration:	50% Kill, 50% Courier
	Advisory:	34% Kill, 66% Courier
	Archives:	5% Kill, 90% Courier, 5% Trade
	Astrosurveying:	40% Kill, 30% Courier, 25% Mining, 5% Trade
	Command:	97% Kill, 3% Courier
	Distribution:	5% Kill, 95% Courier
	Financial:	30% Kill, 70% Courier
	Intelligence:	85% Kill, 15% Courier
	Internal Security:	95% Kill, 5% Courier
	Legal:	50% Kill, 50% Courier
	Manufacturing:	5% Kill, 95% Courier
	Marketing:	5% Kill, 95% Courier
	Mining:	5% Kill, 85% Courier, 10% Mining (II)
	Personnel:	50% Kill, 50% Courier
	Production:	5% Kill, 95% Courier
	Public Relations:	34% Kill, 66% Courier
	R&D:	0% Kill, 50% Courier(S), 50% Trade
	Security:	90% Kill, 5% Courier, 5%Trade
	Storage:	5% Kill, 95% Courier(L)
	Surveillance:	95% Kill, 5% Courier

 

• Kill Missions: require you to fly to a location and destroy ships found there. These can be located in deadspace pockets (a.k.a. ‘dungeons’) where you warp to an acceleration gate prior to engaging and those where you warp directly to a particular engagement.
• Courier missions: This is moving goods from one station to another. These goods may be market items or special packages from the agent. (L) Large Shipment: May need to make multiple deliveries or use an industrial transport ship and/or long trips. (S) Small Shipment: May be able to fit into the hold of a frigate and/or short trips.
• Trade missions: These require you to provide the agent with the goods requested. You may need to be purchased (or produced) these items and delivered to the destination station. The reward and bonus I believe will cover the cost in most cases.
• Mining missions: This is where you deliver a specified amount of minerals or ore to a certain location. You can either mine and/or reprocessed what’s needed or buy on the open market.
• R&D missions: This mission delivers a fixed amount of Research Points (RP) throughout the day for a certain research field. You will receive these points until you quit. Bonus points, usually equaling to one day RP, are rewarded by doing mining or courier missions. These bonus missions are offered once a day and you will receive notice of it through your ‘EVE-Mail’. These points are used to purchase Datacores from the agent. Datacores are used for Invention or Tech II blueprints. There are no kill missions in this field.

 

Ok, let’s go find an Agent. The first way I mentioned to find an agent was to randomly search systems and stations. Well yea you could do that but it is not always the best way to find what you are looking for. You may find a agent there in field you want, but they may not be the right level for you. you could find one that is of your level but maybe they’re not in the field you want.  You want to be a miner not a fighter and they are not what want. But then again you may get lucky or you have not decided what you want to do and any agent that will talk to you will work for now.

Let’s say you want to work with a certain NPC corporation, maybe one you have dealt with before or one you want to boost your standing in. Do a ‘show info’ on that corp and look for an tab labeled ‘Agents’. This will give you a list of the fields that they have agents for. Then select a field and you will get a list of agents. This list will should be broken up into two areas, ‘Available to You’ and ‘Not Available to You’. Note if your standing is to low or to high you may only get one set of these list. Now once you find an agent, right click to ‘Show Info’, look under ‘Agent Info’ tab and look at their location and do a right click ‘show info’, just to make sure that it’s a safe system. If all these check out just right click to set destination and off you go.

The next method will find all the agents that will talk to you. You will still need to do some hunting to find the one in the field you want, but you can do this while docked in one station. Open you map (F10). In the control panel window select ‘Star Map’ tab. Select the ‘Color Stars By’ tab. Now look down the list for ‘My Information’ and open it by clicking on it. In this list you will find ‘My available agents’ select that and wait for your screen to refresh. You will now see a ton (hopefully) of green dots of various sizes. The larger the green dot the more agents in that system that will talk to you. Hovering your mouse over a do will open a small window listing the System, the station(s), the agent(s) their area, level and quality score. Be sure to pay attention to the system name and security level in the top line; don’t want you going to an agent in low sec space, unless you want too. Once you find a system you like, right click to set destination.

Now for the easiest way I know to find an agent. This requires knowing a few things, and having a out of game browser. Open up a browser window (or click the link) and go to www.eve-agents.com. This site has done a lot of work for you. If you are looking for a certain Region, Faction, or a research agent of a certain type or level, this will save you a lot of time. Just enter in the criteria and let it find you an agent. Read the details and again be sure you choose a safe enough system for yourself.

I should note that not all Factions, or Regions have all the different agent types, so don’t be surprised if you can’t find one right away, just look in other regions or even other corporations. Also some missions are in parts (again like the tutorial missions). Also some missions may require you to go to or through low security space. If you feel that you need to reject a mission, do not do this more than once every four hours as this will hurt your standing with that agent and his corp.

Working with agents you will improve your standing with that agent and his corp. After 16 missions of the same level with agents of the same Faction you will be offered a ‘Storyline Mission’ with another agent. This mission will improve your standing with that faction. These missions can be all over the range of mission types. On the other hand your standing takes a hit with some factions if you destroy one of their ships, even if that is done as part of the mission you’re on. Rising your standing in one faction can hurt your standing in another faction. Luckily this is not done at the same scale so you can run several missions for one faction, then move to another factions controlled space and run missions with them for a while to try and maintain a bit of balance. If you’re standing with a faction should drop to low you may not be permitted to enter their space. A possible fix for this is to train some of the ‘Social skills’. Training some of these skills will also raise your standing with agents and even improve your rewards. Below is a small list of the social skills and ones I would recommend starting with.

 

Social	Skill at social interaction. 5% bonus per level to NPC agent, corporation and faction standing increase.
Connections	Skill at interacting with friendly NPCs. 4% Modifier to effective standing from friendly NPC Corporations and Factions per level. Not cumulative with Diplomacy or Criminal Connections.
Diplomacy	Skill at interacting with hostile Agents. 0.4 Bonus per level to effective standing towards hostile Agents. Not cumulative with Connections or Criminal Connections
Negotiation	Skill at agent negotiation. Improves agent effective quality. 5% additional pay per skill level for agent missions.
Fast Talk	Skill at interacting with Concord. 5% Bonus to effective security rating increase.

 

There are more skills in this area but you can do those as you see fit. These should allow you to get the best out of your agent(s) with the smallest amount of investment.

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Until next time Fly safe

Reggi Mental