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Aralyn
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Posted - 2005.10.29 09:23:00 -
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Ive been playing EVE for 3 weeks now and im still on lvl 1 missions... ive been waiting to upgrade for like 2.5 weeks now!!! and still no advances come on ppl guide us!!!
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prof0und l0gic
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Posted - 2005.10.29 10:48:00 -
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use your social skill often and buy the connections skill. I kept wondering how to get to lvl 2 missions as well untill I baught the skill and lvled it up by 2 times then I noticed more agents were showing their face. ;D
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Brad Stone
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Posted - 2005.10.29 11:23:00 -
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Train connections skill and use map to search for level 2 agents that are available to you.
Also you will find some of the L2 missions pretty tough in a frigate unless you have very very good skills and one of the better frigates. I could do some of them in a kestrel but struggled a lot. I would save up and train for a cruiser before attempting l2 missions (took me about a month to get there)
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Oriella Trikassi
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Posted - 2005.10.29 11:42:00 -
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Example:
You want to get a lvl 2 Caldari Navy Agent.
For this you need a good enough standing with either Caldari Navy or Caldari State. These are seperate, they do not add together. I have good Navy standing but poor State standing, so I can only get lvl 2 Agents from the Navy, not any other Caldari Corp.
To get better Caldari Navy standing, do missions for Caldari Navy Agents.
To get better Caldari State standing, you have to wait for the storyline missions. They come via Evemail offers from a special storyline agent, IIRC every 14 ordinary missions or so. They only change your faction standings.
The Connections skill increases your standing with all friendly agents and NPC Corps. Training it gives you a good boost, though its effect is less at higher standings.
My impression is that a lot of new players bounce around doing missions for lots of agents. This is not time effective. Stick to one Agent for a while, only switch when you have another better Agent lined up.
You can check your progress by bringing the Agent or Corp or Faction Info window up, going to the Standings Tab, right clicking on the line with your name and selecting 'Transactions'. A list of recent Missions with the changes they made will appear.
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Brastagi
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Posted - 2005.10.29 17:24:00 -
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Edited by: Brastagi on 29/10/2005 17:24:37
Agree with Oriella there, just stick with an agent in a corp. Always check the corp detail to see if other agent start showing their faces to be available for you. Training social and connection skills help boost that.
From what I do, I do it like this: Train social 3 and connection 2 (for beginner), then do a lvl agent with highest quality.
Eventually after several mission and you see your standing increase with an agent, you will see an upper lvl agent available now (ussually negative quality). From what I've heard, lvl 3 Q-18 is better than lvl 2 Q+18 agent (example).
But I waited for Q-7 or Q-5 to show up then I switch to them. Keep doing missions for them then wait for Q+16 or Q+19 to show up.
While doing that, I can train my social and connection skills bit by bit. That's how a n00b like me doing it.
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Rat Hubble
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Posted - 2005.10.29 18:51:00 -
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My Connections lvl 3 should be up by tomorrow evening, if you only pick a more peaceful faction agent does this mean that you will not have to face combat missions at all and just do more lucrative courier missions?
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Yllse
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Posted - 2005.10.29 20:17:00 -
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Rat, yes you can avoid military missions altogether by working for agents that give few, if any, kill missions.
agent types
In my experience the courier type missions are not more lucrative, at least at low levels.
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Rat Hubble
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Posted - 2005.10.29 20:57:00 -
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Thanks Yllse
Killing is OK but being killed is not as good :-/ ..IMO
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Brad Stone
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Posted - 2005.10.29 23:13:00 -
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 Originally by: Rat Hubble
My Connections lvl 3 should be up by tomorrow evening, if you only pick a more peaceful faction agent does this mean that you will not have to face combat missions at all and just do more lucrative courier missions?
Ummm no. Kills are WAY more lucrative. You get (1) Agent's reward + bonus (2) Bounties on rat kill missions (3) loot to recycle & sell mins (most level 1 loot is not worth keeping or selling - but get your refining skills up to 2 or 3) I regularly made 750k from doing "Silence informant" level 1 - no level 1 courrier mission gets close to that. Plus you could do a couple of kill missions in the time it takes to do some of the courrier ones.
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Rat Hubble
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Posted - 2005.10.30 00:03:00 -
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750k for a lvl 1 ? Yoiks, I am doing something way wrong. Surely the refining skill doesn't add that much does it?
I haven't checked but I guess it's 5% per lvl?
Although obviously the killing missions are more financially rewarding - 750k seems extremely nice. How much payment and bonus might you be getting included in that?
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Ishtari
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Posted - 2005.10.30 09:22:00 -
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Some items are worth nothing (pirate logs ) but recycleed they sell for a lot more (noxcium/isogen). Same with things such as most basic modules and light missiles/small ammo.
In fact only `named` stuff might be worth selling/keeping.
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Brad Stone
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Posted - 2005.10.30 20:33:00 -
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Originally by: Rat Hubble
Edited by: Rat Hubble on 30/10/2005 00:07:45
750k for a lvl 1 ? Yoiks, I am doing something way wrong. Surely the refining skill doesn't add that much does it?
I haven't checked but I guess it's 5% per lvl?
Although obviously the killing missions are more financially rewarding - 750k seems extremely nice. How much payment and bonus might you be getting included in that?
And also, I wasn't implying that courier missions were more lucrative - I was saying that lvl 2 courier missions were more lucrative than the lvl 1 counterpart and that I could still do them with a Frigate - sorry for the badly worded type :)
But 750k! Who needs lvl 2!? I'm off to do some more killin! (when i get home from evil work - draining me of my free will it is!)
It was with a decent agent (Q16 I think) and one of the harder level 1's with quite a few rats to kill. I also have negotiation 3 which gives 15% extra to bounties. Refining 3 + faction standing in my station gives me 89% recycling efficiency. I cant remmy I thuink the bonus was a trade item. Because of the larger number of rats I had to kill, meant more loot. Recycling the loot and travelling for best price for minerals, + the bounties plus the high reward from a Q16 agent & "hard" mission gave me about 750k. I did it as an exercise to see how much I could make off that one mission. Wish I kept the spreadsheet now!
There's almost no loot worth keeping on level 1 missions, recycle all the way - unless you get lucky with a named item drop.
To make the money on level 1s get a really good quality agent (training connections helps with that) and get refining up to maximise recycling. Hang on to your mins till you got a cargo hold full and pimp them round for best price. Also training negotiation is good for bigger bounties on the rats.
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Solar Sailor
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Posted - 2005.10.30 21:14:00 -
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just doing the newb mission line and one or two storyline missions will get you a LvL 2. I had 'access' to a low quality LvL 2 within a day of starting.
I suggest you learn to use people and places corp search and the show info option.
Right click is your best friend.
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