I don't know if the specifics of how the storyline agent is chosen are known and predictable, but what I would do in that situation is use Agent Finder to find a storyline agent of the appropriate corporation and level, and from there find the nearest regular agent.

Okay, quick question, can anyone clarify how to get Storyline Missions for a certain corp? Basically I am running missions for Seb Tribe atm and want my Storylines to come from there agents (for obvious reasons), however whenever I get my storylines atm I'm getting them from Six Kin (despite that agent being 4 jumps from where I am and a Seb Tribe storyline agent being only 1 jump away). Can anyone give me some clarification here or even help me out?

A few years ago when I ran alot of missions for jump clones it was the case that the nearest storyline agent was the one that you were sent to. So you could, by carefully selecting an agent, control who you got storylines with.

This is no longer the case, there is some element of randomness in it.

I'm a careful reader of dev blogs and I have never seen any mention of a change here.

One thing I'm reasonably certain of from getting some standings for my trade alt(s) is that if you have a storyline agent in the station you have the normal agent in, you should get a storyline there.

I don't always run missions for Minmatar faction standings, but when I do, I use the L4 Sebiestor Tribe agent in Eram. More than once I've run a mission from that agent that's #16 in the sequence to get a Storyline mission, and I have always gotten that Storyline mission from the Six Kin agent in Vullat.

Vullat is 1 jump from Eram and in a different region (Heimatar vs Metropolis). I think a lot of what's written above is wrong. Storyline missions come from the nearest faction Storyline agent regardless of whether or not they're in the same region. The only exception is when you already have an outstanding Storyline mission from an agent, in which case the next nearest Storyline agent (for that same faction) will offer you the mission.

Since neither of us have provided any proof / pictures, guess it's safe to say it never happened.

The game still sends you to the Storyline Agent nearest to your 16th Agent.

The mechanic is like the Market, it only looks at the Region you're currently in.



DMC


All it's gonna do is make another Storyline Agent within the same Region offer you a mission. That Agent will probably be even further away than the Six Kin Storyline Agent.


DMC

OK so which is it? Nearest Storyline Agent of the Faction or just RNG.

I'm a bit at a loss aobut the whole problem, checking on it on the agent finder. Two Seb. Tribe sqotryline agents, one in backwater high-sec system Hakeri, the other in low-sec Eugrana. One Six Kin agent in Vullat. And there is no system in New Eden that fits the 1&4 distance theme of the inital posting.

So I assume an error in the inital situation and stick to the general mechanic of closest storyline agent of same faction regardless of regions, system sec. Etc. Only randomness I so far encountered is when two agents are the same number of jumps away.

Is one of the inital posting agents maybe an agent for an epic arc or the old distibution cycle missions?

My guess is the OP is running missions in Aldik, which is one jump from Eurgrana. Since Eurgrana is low sec, the OP probably has the autopilot set to avoid low sec, and the storyline mission uses that to avoid the low sec storyline agent.

You're correct, I am running missions from Aldik and did have Autopilot set to avoid LowSec (Had no idea that had a bearing on where Storylines come from herpaderp *facepalm*), have just removed that and will see when my next Storyline comes up if it gives me a mission there. Thanks for pointing that out Rengerel :)

Nice to see people contradict themselves in an effort to prove me wrong.

I especially like how everyone keeps saying you get the storyline offer from the nearest storyline agent in the Faction, regardless of Region location.

Yet they still fail to explain why the OP is getting sent to storyline agent 4 jumps away instead of the storyline agent 1 jump away.

If they do try to explain it, they say it's random.


OK so which is it? Nearest Storyline Agent of the Faction or just RNG.

You're correct, I am running missions from Aldik and did have Autopilot set to avoid LowSec (Had no idea that had a bearing on where Storylines come from herpaderp *facepalm*), have just removed that and will see when my next Storyline comes up if it gives me a mission there. Thanks for pointing that out Rengerel :)

Not getting referred to low-sec if you do missions in high-sec is new to me. But then I always took care that the nearest storyline agent for mission no.16 was in high-sec. Apparently I took precautions to avoid something impossible.

I do not think is about regions or sec status, I think storyline missions will not come from the same corp you got the storyline trigger mission.

That is most definitely wrong. The corporation of agent no.16 has absolutely nothing to do with the corporation of the storyline agent you get refered to. Only the faction and distance matter (and seemingly sec. Status).

Proof? Do missions e.g. for the Amarr Navy lvl4 agent in Oridion. The only storyline agent you'll ever get (assuming at you do the storyline right away) is the Amarr Navy storyline agent in the same system.

Ahhh, great.

Sooo, the storyline mechanic just had Agents in the same region offer you missions and as each offer was left open, the agents got further and further away from your location.

Completing the 16th agent located in a system with a corp storyline agent induced that agent to offer the storyline mission.

And all this time the Seb Storyline agent 1 jump over in another region would never offer you a mission.



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EDIT :

Thank you very much, it seems you've confirmed what I had originally posted.