Posted - 2004.06.10 00:48:00 - [1]

 

Edited by: Zinjan on 18/10/2004 20:07:31
Edited by: Zinjan on 11/06/2004 10:00:30

Mission's:
All npc corporation in the game have agents that you can run missions for, the agents are divided
into divisions like accounting, public-relation, r&d, security and surveillance. All divisions give out mining, kill and courier missions, but an agent from security will give more kill missions then an agent from mining.
Corporations are of different types, Caladri Navy - for an example - have more combat division's then Duvolle Laboratories and would be a good choice if you only like to do kill missions.

There is three levels of agents (soon five), you will most likely have to start with a lvl.1 agent of poor quality. Each mission completed gives a increase in standing towards the agent you are working for, the corporation, and one or two faction's.
The standing needed for agents is either standing with the corporation or faction. So if you have 5 in standing with Caldari State you will be able to use all agents that works in a Caldari State corporation - not r&d agents since they require a personal corporation standing in addition. The standing gained towards the agent gives you a better effective quality for every natrual number you pass you gain +1 (so 3,1 = +3 to effective quality).

Let's say you want to start work for a big corporation with a research division since you want to start research at some later time. (See list 1.1 for corp's with r&d divisions)

Open people and places -> places [tab] - type in "Calari State". Should be one result press the blue I (information) -> corporation [tab]. There should be a full list of all Caldari State corporations - find Lai Dai on the list and open the Information Window -> Agent [tab]. Now it will show all divisions that Lai Dai have. Find a few agents that are available to you and use people and places search to find out which ones are not to far away.

When at the same station as your agent you can ask for a mission. When you have accepted it check you mission journal, you will now have an active mission in there. Look at it's information, it will tell you what to do and where to go, you can copy paste the destinations from mission text to your People and Places Window -> Places [tab] Search -> Station. When you brought the goods to it's final station you can "convo" the agent and tell that you have been successful.

You will see that you only have lvl.1 "low" quality agents available. This is due to your standing which is 0.0, if you train the social and connections skills. Connection gives a boost to standing, Social to the standing you receive with each mission completed.

(See World of Eve -> Organizations for full list of npc corporations)

Side notes:

Important missions gives a much higher standing/faction increase then normal mission's each agent has eight different important mission's to "choose" from.
The higher the quality of the agent the more important mission's.

Implants are only given out by lvl.3 agents - for a list of which corp's give out what implants see this thread.

Doing kill missions will decrease you standing with other factions

Negotiation skill gives +5 to agents effective quality pr. lvl - increasing research points
pr. day or rate of important mission and there by also implants.

In near future raising ones security status above five can only be done by running missions for Concord.

Doing research with an agent:
Research gives out tech2 BPO (Blueprint originals) - when you start research with an agent you will get a daily amount of research points. Bpo's are given out like in a lottery, every research point is like a lottery ticket, the more research points you have the greater the chance of being the lucky one.

Quieting a research project with an agent to start with another agent or different field means loosing all the research points gained. There for research should only be started with a lvl.3 agent of high quality, since they give out more research points a day.

You will need science at lvl.5 and either Electronics, Engineering or Mechanics at lvl.5 in order to train the research skill. You need to have the same research skill as your agent - the higher his and your skill is there more research points per day. (see list. 1.2 for what type of bpo's the areas of research gives)

You can find information on research under your r&d agent - it now shows what bpo's are going to be given out in the field.

When you have started a research project with an agent - you will be given a daily mission. This mission will double your research points for the day, but it won't effect your standing if not doing it.

Side notes:
Research Project Management skill gives +1 to number of research project you can have - the skill requires