I need to chose an agent to do missions. Which NPC corp should I pick the agent from?
Like Concord, Sisters of EvE, Astral Mining, etc.... Are there any specific advantages of chosing one over the other?
Thanks for any advice :)
Michael Turner
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Smaller corps will give you standings in that corp faster than lager corps. This is seen with the standing increase function:
Corp standing increase = Agent standing increase * Agent efficiency / corp size
Agent efficiency = 0.01 * ((8 * Agent level) + (0.1 * Agent quality) - 4)
This, however has the flip side of fewer agents meaning longer jumps between improving agents.
Another factor to consider is does the corporation provide services you want?
If you are a trader / market type you will want standings with the corporations that own the stations used as trade hubs to reduce taxes.
If you are an industrialist you likely want to improve the standing with the corp that you will be using to make your goods - the higher the standing the lower the production fees.
If you are doing long term missioning, look at the higher end agents of the type you want to work for and consider their location. You would rather not mission for a corp to find out all of their good agents are out in low or null sec if you want to be a high sec missioner.
Related to industrialists, are you looking to do R&D? There are a limited number of corporations for each faction that do R&D.
Does the corp have medical facilities for jump clones? This will make life easier if you ever want one.
Does the player corp you are in work 'twards a specific npc corp? Things such as office rent are partially determined by standings.
Consider the location of the closest faction storyline agent. Is it with a corp that you want to work up or don't care about? Is it a division you want to do a storyline with?
Grismar's eve explorer can provide detailed searches on agents (or stations and corps). For example:
- Show agents
- In system with security of .. >= 0.5
- With level .. = 4
- Offering mission of type .. courier
- In station owned by faction with name containing .. minmatar
This will give you a listing of all high security minmatar L4 courier agents.
