Exploration is vastly superior to mission running IMO. You can start off in high-sec to learn the ropes but you need to move to low or null-sec to earn serious ISK.
If you are at all thinking of doing PvP, listen to Kaotik, Malladine and Ichy for words of wisdom on that, and how to get started. I'm the kind of player that they crave tears from, and I never leave high sec.
I think I'm done with Eve, just can't get back into it sadly. Going to see if I can find a place to sell off my account, my character should get a good offer since I have a set of HG slaves in her and another clone has a set of +4's and at like 64 mill SP very little of it is wasted at all and the character is very focused.
What's the character sheet like? Got an EVE Board? I can float the idea around to some people I know to see if there's any interest.
Here is the character sheet.
http://eveboard.com/pilot/Escaa
Very nice Amarrian, near and dear to my heart for sure. How much you looking for? I'm sure I could find some interested parties.
Well, it does for me, because I have good standings and perfect refining skills for loot (about 1.5 months total training time IIRC). I get 98.875% or something in the high sec stations where I run missions. With low standings you lose a lot to taxes, and with lower skills you lose a lot to waste. In lowsec or null, you'd lose even more because the stations have lower starting efficiencies too, which isn't offset until you have a lot of stuff to level V.
A couple of the good tools will take your skills into account in the melt vs. sell equation to give you a realistic estimated profit. My tool of choice is EveRefinery.
I haven't gathered anything recently since I hardly play any more, but I do check EveRefinery every time they tweak a few things, and I still have a hangar full of crap from my last missioning binge that it tells me will sell as minerals for at least twice what it would sell for as loot.
If you are at all thinking of doing PvP, listen to Kaotik, Malladine and Ichy for words of wisdom on that, and how to get started. I'm the kind of player that they crave tears from, and I never leave high sec. :whiste:
I would keep the character. EVE is a lifelong addiction that you never really shake. You might be done with the game right now but good luck finding another MMO like it. Keep the character, don't be dumb.
I finished up the 10 initial combat missions from the career agent in Troserre. Didn't take very long, and I came out of it with two new ships and 1.3m ISK, so I think they were worth doing. I'm going to try a couple of missions from the advanced military agent there tonight, but not sure if I will do all of them.
I took your advice about refining and that seems like a good approach. I also found out that the market works differently than I thought. I was thinking you had to list every little bit of loot that you wanted to sell, but the "sell directly" feature always seems to find a buyer. I don't know if these are NPC buyers stepping in, or the market is just so large that there are always orders for everything. Whatever the driver, it effectively works just like having a merch to sell to in an rpg.
Btw, I started messing with this game again because I watched 'Firefly' through for the second time. I wanna be Malcolm Reynolds and fly around the universe with Morena Baccarin.
I finished up the 10 initial combat missions from the career agent in Troserre. Didn't take very long, and I came out of it with two new ships and 1.3m ISK, so I think they were worth doing. I'm going to try a couple of missions from the advanced military agent there tonight, but not sure if I will do all of them.
I took your advice about refining and that seems like a good approach. I also found out that the market works differently than I thought. I was thinking you had to list every little bit of loot that you wanted to sell, but the "sell directly" feature always seems to find a buyer. I don't know if these are NPC buyers stepping in, or the market is just so large that there are always orders for everything. Whatever the driver, it effectively works just like having a merch to sell to in an rpg.
Btw, I started messing with this game again because I watched 'Firefly' through for the second time. I wanna be Malcolm Reynolds and fly around the universe with Morena Baccarin.
While it does sell right away, you're selling it at the price that the buyer sets. So for all you know, you're selling a 100k item for 5k.
Well yeah, that could happen, except I'm not selling many really expensive items, and I am paying attention to the estimated price as well as the offered price. I'm really just talking about getting rid of trash loot. Now I've taken to reprocessing it all and selling the mats.
The only thing that keeps me off of eve is the amount of time to level things. I don't know about you guys, but I don't want to have to wait a year to use a decent ship without getting WTFPWNED in the face.
You need better relations to use a level 2 agent over a level 1 agent. If you have been doing the missions for a while, then you relations are probably good enough to find a level 2 agent of the same corporation as the level 1 agent you have been using. There is an agent search function, but I havent used it in years so I dont remember how to use it.
Most of the time that we pwned the opposition is was due to scouting and then the FC staying calm and calling the right targets. We beat plenty of "better" fleets or bigger fleets that obviously had no clue what they were doing.
(btw - often Martimus was the scout and I was the FC. When we were in the fleet, everyone else relaxed and was confident. Relaxed players make less mistakes and do not run for it. If you keep DPS on your targets and reps going, very often the other fleet just breaks and you wipe them out)
Michael
Thanks, I just realized that I could search for level 2 agents in the finder, and there are a bunch available to me. Is it possible to actually finish a level, or do the agents keep generating new missions as long as you request one? Other than storyline missions and the beginning tutorial I don't think I have exhausted any level 1 agents yet.
No. Other than story lines, you can never exhaust missions from an agent. They will give them indefinitely.
Ok, thanks for the tip. I did a few level 2 missions last night. The last one was a security mission and I just about lost my ship twice doing it. I have to work out a new build for these higher level security missions. Currently have a Gallente Exequror, outfitted for exploration and light combat with two Heavy Neuron Blasters and four Hammerhead I's in the drone bay. Just didn't cut it. When the NPCs ganged up on me my shield tank (Medium Shield Booster I) couldn't keep up. Spent about 900k ISK repairing and replacing drones in order to complete the mission.
Anyone have any ideas for a better ship/build for level 2 PVE missions? I have about 50 million ISK available.