L1 missions are brutal

[d0z3rr]

Not in the difficulty sense, but the boredom sense. I show up to the station and dock my DESTROYER with 5 LAZERS of DEATH only for my agent to give me a freaking courier mission?! WTF. Pickup this scientist, drop him off here....wow derrrr okaayyyyy huhuhhhuh, i tink i can handle dat *drool*

Why can't I just start on l3 missions? I have the ships...please tell me there are no courier l3 missions, I just want to kill stuff and salvage their "corpses".

[Los]

Totally irrelevant but this post made me giggle and there for made my day ;) tnx!

[leroyreborn]

if you run for the right type of agent you should get no to very little courier missions.
http://eveinfo.com/npcdivisions/

[Ughmahedhurtz]

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Missions_Guide#Agent_Divisions

See the table with mission types per division. I get the rare pure courier mission from security/internal security but usually it's the "KILL DEM ALLZ AND BRING ME THIS DUDE" type of courier, which is good because someone has to die.

[RobinGBrown]

Why can't I just start on l3 missions? I have the ships...please tell me there are no courier l3 missions, I just want to kill stuff and salvage their "corpses".

Check the EVE forums 'want to sell' section for 'standings gain services'. It will costs you a billion or so but there's a bunch of people there who will raise your standing with whatever faction(s) you want so that you can dive straight into L3/4 missions.

[Souca]

Check the EVE forums 'want to sell' section for 'standings gain services'. It will costs you a billion or so but there's a bunch of people there who will raise your standing with whatever faction(s) you want so that you can dive straight into L3/4 missions.

Is it really a billion? I guess having to have some newb in your fleet would get annoying, esp if they don't log on or something. Corp standings are so much cheaper, usually 150M to 350M. *pets his Caldari Navy 9.69 corp standing*

- Souca -

[d0z3rr]

Awesome, thanks everyone!

[Mukade]

About a week in I fitted a Condor with warp speed rigs. Finding a rep from the Archives division might be a good idea.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

About a week in I fitted a Condor with warp speed rigs. Finding a rep from the Archives division might be a good idea.

Heh, FedEx boat? :D

[RobinGBrown]

Is it really a billion? I guess having to have some newb in your fleet would get annoying, esp if they don't log on or something. Corp standings are so much cheaper, usually 150M to 350M. *pets his Caldari Navy 9.69 corp standing*

- Souca -

Not exactly, just throwing a figure in the air because their rates depend on what your beginning and ending standings are but it is a minimum of something like a couple of hundred million.


Heh, FedEx boat? :D

Thing about courier missions is that they can be done very quickly so you can get 16 done in order to get a storyline mission and raise faction rep. I do them sometimes using a blockade runner as it has very fast warp speed and good align times

[d0z3rr]

I accidentally declined a storyline mission last night. It was a courier mission so my natural reaction was "decline!". Then I realised it was storyline....

Will I be able to go back to the agent and get the quest again?

I looked up blockade runners and don't really feel like dumping 90m isk on one, still need to get that Orca.

[d0z3rr]

Another thing, these l1 missions I'm "grinding" wouldn't so bad if docking/undocking/warping/acceleration gating didn't take so long! I spend more time doing mundane stuff like that, than spent in actual combat.

[RobinGBrown]

I accidentally declined a storyline mission last night. It was a courier mission so my natural reaction was "decline!". Then I realised it was storyline....

Will I be able to go back to the agent and get the quest again?

I looked up blockade runners and don't really feel like dumping 90m isk on one, still need to get that Orca.

Once you hit decline it's gone - good news is that courier missions aren't worth as much in terms of faction standing gain so you didn't lose out all that much

I use blockade runners a lot they're _very_ fast for courier missions (warp speed of 9 AU/s as compared to frigs with 3 AU/s) and can cloak to hide

Also watch out for storyline missions that are part of a chain (e.g. 1 of 3, etc) - only the last one gives the faction standing gain so it's easy to decline the earlier ones without realising