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Ephemeral Ways
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Posted - 2005.07.19 00:45:00 -
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I am trying to determine what is the benefit of doing Agent missions - as I've only been playing a few days I am sure I am missing something.
Currently, (only lvl 1 contacts) I earn more money trading and nearly as much mining.
I have exhasted the first story-line for my post-tutorial agent. Searching under his corp I see I need to go 4 jumps to find anothe lvl 1 contact. I don't know how to search within a solar system for any agent (besides physically visiting each station) and I am hoping that somebody can help me out by pointing out what benefits accrue from doing the work involved in tracking down another agent to talk to. I assume that there is a benefit but am having trouble balancing it against the known benefits of other activities.
Thanks for any help you may give.
Y.
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Avalon Beholder
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Posted - 2005.07.19 01:25:00 -
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Edited by: Avalon Beholder on 19/07/2005 01:25:36
um.... taste?
Eve is a free form game, do whatever you want!
Higher level and quality agents give better rewards.
If you are happy doing other activities, do them instead!
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Stuart85
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Posted - 2005.07.19 02:05:00 -
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Check your map for available agents. The more agent missions you do, the better your standing with their corperation and the better rewards you get.
Agent missions are one of the main ways to make a living in eve. Keep at them, if you don't like them, move onto something else.
There is a few skills which will also boost your agent progression and get you better rewards - I can't remember them off the top of my head, but they are easy enough to find on the market.
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.07.19 02:07:00 -
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Better agents = more money. Kill agents = much more interesting than mining. Agents = Loyalty Points = faction battleships = $$$
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Brej Donierik
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Posted - 2005.07.19 03:40:00 -
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The level 2 and level 3 agents provide decent cash, although it's probably not as much as an advanced mining character could gather.
The point of agents is to manage your faction standing, usually so you can get access to R&D agents and get T2 blueprints from them. Although, the combat missions are ok fun too, by themselves.
To find a good agent, start with your character sheet, click the Standings tab, then Liked By, rightclick on Gallente Federation and choose Show Info, then Show Member Corps, pick one, and look at its Agents tab.
Direct benefits from missions are cash, possible rare modules from combat missions, and various offers from the agent, plus the faction which unlocks further agents. The skills under Social on the market also help with faction tremendously, you should look into them.
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DeltaH
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Posted - 2005.07.19 05:38:00 -
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I am new too and was planning on being a miner. I was at a stage where I had a long training cycle until my next mining upgrade (was doing cruiser mining, ~1.5 million an hour). I was looking up refining and decided I needed to faction up so the 5% refine tax would go away. I started at lv2 agent like -19 quality worked my way up moving agents every few major quality increase.
Long story short I know plan on not doing mining. Mining is much more safe and steady money. I can only do level 2 agents right now but I make pure bounty + reward about 100-200k per mission depending. Like I said I could mine ~1.5 million an hour without a big problem, so agents are definitely lower. The thing is on that 100-200k mission I might get a drop that sells for a million ISK. I've even had some cargo expander sale for 14 million ISK. So ISK for agent missions isn't that bad compared to mining if you look at big picture.
The main benefit is I can agent run for a few hours in a row. I can't mine for more than 1-2 hours without going numb. That is my own fault for not joining a corp and gang mining I imagine, but its been my choise so far.
Some hints.
1) It seems to me you want a big corp with a lot of station + agents. Since I was originally doing it for standing to lower reprocess I wanted a large corp so I had a ton of stations with low tax. The benfit is your standing is more useful.
I did Federation Navy as Gallente. It seems like a pretty safe bet. Lots of kill-type missions.
2) EVE-map on eve-i.com is a great tool. You can plug your standing in, search for a certain faction type of agent, and it will list them all.
3) If you don't want to do EVE-map you can do F10 in game map, and do "my agents" for star display. Its sorta deceiving but that shows every agent that you have the faction to use if you hover over a star.
4) Anything with basic or a vanilla looking name can generally reprocess. Anything with a weird name check market history (buy/sell order can be deceiving, I think history only shows price that has actually sold). Lots of times something will be worth 100k+ and good enough to take to Yulai or something.
I'm very new at this stuff, doing agent missions about a week now. So these are just basic things that helped me get started.
-DeltaH
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DeltaH
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Posted - 2005.07.19 05:48:00 -
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Oh also, storyline missions are great.
This might be wrong, but here is my understanding!
You have Factions. Factions have member corporations which have agents. Like Gallente Federation is a faction. There is no Gallente Federation agent. Instead you look up a member corp and use their agents. After awhile (I don't know what the rule is) that corporation can give you a storyline mission. They give more standing increase than normal missions but also have the great benefit of giving your Faction standing an increase. On top of that even your Faction has relationships with other Factions, and those get an increase too. This is pretty handy because after doing a few storyline your Faction (Gallente Federation in my example) standing is high enough you open up a lot of member corporation agents because what determines if you can use an agent is the highest of faction, corporation, or agent standing.
That might be confusing! Anyways, its handy because even with just my Gallente Federation standing at like 2.25 I can do over half of all lv2 agents for any member corporation. I've done maybe 5-6 storyline missions.
-DeltaH
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Ephemeral Waves
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Posted - 2005.07.20 00:07:00 -
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 Originally by: DeltaH
3) If you don't want to do EVE-map you can do F10 in game map, and do "my agents" for star display. Its sorta deceiving but that shows every agent that you have the faction to use if you hover over a star.
-DeltaH
Holy smokes. This is so simple and so useful. Thank you! Thank you! This advice should be listed somewhere - under one of the guides. Seems I'm 1 jump from a star with 8 agents willing to talk to me. Woohoo!
Of course, this morning I discovred a Caldari military station with 3 contacts all giving me kill-em missions which are a lot more interesting than hitting autopilot and picking up my book.
Y.
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DeltaH
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Posted - 2005.07.20 01:13:00 -
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Yah the 'my agents' is useful to see, but if you want to really work up a specific corporation it isn't as useful as other means.
The best in game way to find agents for a specific corporation:
1. People and Places
2. Search Type -> Corporation, type in Corp name.
3. Right-click corp you want in the list that pops up, show-info.
4. Click on "age" tab and you now have a list of every agent for that corporation divided by section.
The best out of game method is to use EVE maps on eve-i.com and search through there. I've only used EVE maps for a day or two but it is pretty handy tool. Wish I had seen it sooner.
-DeltaH
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Brej Donierik
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Posted - 2005.07.20 05:45:00 -
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Originally by: DeltaH
4. Click on "age" tab ...
Heh heh, the "Age" tab expands to become the "Agents" tab, if you widen that show info window by dragging it from the lower-right corner.
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