Trying to answer your question as realistically as possible, I do not think you will get accurate results at your current level of skills, because that would make most of the easy missions look hard. Someone will get a different experience with near maxed skills and a most advanced T2 fit, mixed with some faction\deadspace items ideally (within reasonable limits).

While you give lots of details about how you are running this project of yours, there seems to be an innate trend to your posting that excludes constructive criticism (which only targets to improve the outcome of your objective) from other players that posted. So when I read at some point (random pick) that you are training Connections to V, i can't help myself to wonder and make the question :

" Why would you be willing to train that skill to V (or prioritize it over others) and not be willing to spend those 2 weeks training something else that would actually produce more accurate results & most likely reduce the amount of effort during your testing ? ".

I can easily say that this comment is meant as constructive criticism or, indirectly, as an advice mixed with a tone of personal puzzlement (over choice of skill) but the chance is that you are going to see it as something irrelevant to your initial query and possibly be offended as well. I hope you will not but if you do, it is your prerogative to do so, naturally.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid this kind of responding philosophy you have adopted towards other player's obvious willingness to help will lead you to an impasse. And speaking with riddles & a style that i can describe as "reading a science fiction novel" rather than straightforward description of your query, only makes the task for the responding candidates so much harder.

Good luck to your quest.

You fail to understand I won't have the time or money for that for 3 years going on 6 years.

You refuse to accept it and try to hold me liable of some wrongdoing or fault .

It's dangerous and is interfering against my work, income and family.

I don't like the way you try to twist it into a problem solving matter when it is not.
I will block you .

He obviously does not want help.

10/10 - Well done OP, well done.

Which (SoE) Level 3 (security) missions are the easiest ?
- Which are the ones that can be done the fastest with the least risk of problems?

Which are the hardest although they may give the highest rewards?

What is the actual standing gained (numerically speaking, before adjustments or after)?


I obviously have more to say on this and may make a new thread to try to filter disturbances or dissent.

I suppose blockade gets a mention as one of the harder ones. Same for recon part 1. (unless you blitz it in a shuttle/frigate, then its silly easy)

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Except Recon is meant to be blitzed or be for Recon only.
The NPCs are not meant to be engaged and provide little loot for the efforts required.
Recon is one of the easiest mission.

The bounty value in recon part 1 is actually pretty good if you kill everything. And they all spawn at the same distance from you, this makes killing them all easy if you do enough DPS.

IMO looting is generally a waste of time, both in missions and in null sec anoms.

Kinda off topic, but would 250 dps be enough for 3's?

How mean are 3's to drones?

The Sentry drones are not causing more damage but can hit further and are harder to damage and destroy,

Drone aggro in 3's is pretty manageable nothuing too chronic.



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Sentry Drones do slightly less maximum damage than Heavy Drones but do not need to travel to target. ...

More so since they both do exactly 64 HP of damage in their respective branch(es).

I have 55km range and more coming up shortly.

I use medium drones since they do more damage and have more HP.
I also use heavy drones especially against cruiser and higher level targets.

I managed to reconnect to my lost drones.
I'm now going 1 jump to get salvager while I dropped the MTU.
Should be done in a few.

Drone aggro in 3's is pretty manageable nothuing too chronic.

I'm mostly firing at 120km+ so it doesn't work for me. I keep some medium EWAR drones but hardly ever need to use them. Light scout drones are absolutely golden against frigate rats, and cruisers and BS's never last long enough to get into drone range.

edit: ohhh yeah those lvl3 missions... forgot... meh I don't use drones there. First time I did lvl3's I did it in a Drake, used drones there, but not too much since I had good range on the drake and was more speed tanking ( I <3 speed tanking ). Last time I did lvl3 grinding for standings, I did it in an AF, had no drones, didn't need drones, just crazy easy.

You need to blitz to lvl4's, forget about lvl3's
then get yourself umm a raven or something, stick in a MJD, extend your targeting range and snipe them to pieces.

I fire at 100-120km with Bouncers in my Domi (used to be 150km before the OMNI nerf) in level IVs.
My Rattlesnake I tend to fire at 50 to 100km.

Blitzed some level 3s recently with the Rattler to balance some standings, only took a couple of minutes per mission. The rattlesnake Gecko is pretty much invulnerable in 3s but does have trouble hitting the fast stuff. With Faction Cruise you lose ISK but that's not a big issue. If I did 3s in a Rattler regularly would probably fit Rapid Heavies instead.