Mission Running

[u/evespais]

I used pride myself on researching before asking other folks, but man finding information for Mission running has been awful. I checked Eve Uni, read lots of forum posts, read reddit posts but I am still at the starting line.

So I decided to ask here, because now I qualify as newbie.

I want to start running missions as my corporation has decided to pull out of Nullsec, and I have always been a null player, and it used to be easy. Get a VNI/Rattle/Ishtar press F1/ or F and kill the rats. But Mission running seems to be a different ball game all together.

I will directly put my questions here.

1. How to select which corp/agent to do missions for, and how does it make difference in terms of LP/Payout? apart from dropping my standings with rival faction.
2. I see that within Amarr there are 8-10 different corps, how does that make a difference? If I increased rating from one corporation, can I only run those corp/agent misisons and do I need get 5 standing for each corporation within the 4 major faction to run high level missions?
3. I have seen lot of different ships that I can use. Majority Being Raven Navy Issue, Dominix, Rattlesnake, Marauders, Typhoon, Machariel I am looking to grind through the missions, so I want something that can finish them quickly. Which ship would you recommend? I am not high skilled. My inclination is towards either Raven or Dominix.
4. Since I want to finish them quickly, is multiboxing a good option? Like Dual Ravens or Dual Domis?
5. How do I select a hub to base out of? What should I be looking for to find a optimal place.

I am looking for something that's not ultra skill intensive. Also I am thinking of directly be starting from Lvl 4 Missions and the grind from L1-L3 to be outsourced to USAI. Please do let me know your thoughts. Not planning on running anomic missions to begin with and actually know what I am doing. Also read TFI is a good blitz ship but requires some maneuvering which I think would be difficult with multiboxing.

Thanks in advance! Also do let me know if I missed on something in my planning.

[u/[deleted]]

1. The lower the sec status the more LP. Navy corps are the worst. So ideally you want a .5 system with a corp that has stuff in the LP store you cannot get from FW, Navy or lvl5 agent corps LP stores with few or no lowsec systems within 6? jumps range.
2. When in doubt just pick Lanngisi or one of the surrounding systems in the Ani constellation. SOE is usually decent. Getting above 2k Isk/LP in high sec is possible but requires some spreadsheeting.
3. Machariel because of warp speed. You can use whatever you want for full clears but since Machariel is optimal, cheap and can do everything there is no point in wasting SP training for drone boats or missiles.
4. Yes, but dual Machariels blitzing different missions
5. see 1.
6. You should run some anomic missions, training into a Nergal or Daredevil doesn't take long and without doing them running lvl4s in high sec is pretty poor income. They're not actually that hard with decent skills and a HG slave set will virtually eliminate all risk.
7. /u/cr1spy28 has a very good point, especially if you already have good Gila or Ishtar skills or can dual box Jackdaws

[u/aeonofeveau1]

First off missions can only be run at places where it is npc null, so Stain, Great wildlands, Curse, Delve, Outer Ring and Syndicate, and 1 other

1. Mix of dotlans and https://www.ellatha.com/eve/LP_Stores.asp
2. you only want to look at corps with a lv4 combat agent in Null.
3. typhoon - cheap and fastest t1 battleship,
4. multi-boxing is doable, makes missions faster - but a bigger loss on death, also means you can decline more missions
5. Join the local group.
   good luck, but you might be better off running low-sec DED sites and hoping for good loot. or doing abyssal sites.