If you want to run missions,you need to find a good agent who is available to you, and, preferably, near your current location.Read this EVE Online Agent Guide to learn more about finding agents,finding the best agents for you,and how to make good money and standing increases from mission running.
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- Introduction to Agents
- What is Agent Level?
- Finding an agent: Who is the best agent with whom I can currently work?
- Finding an agent: Who is the best agent available to me in a specific corporation?
- Finding an agent: Who is a good available agent who is also nearby?
Introduction to Agents
Inside of NPC space stations, you will see a list of agents who haveoffices in that station. If those agents are available to you, you can double click their portraits to talk to them, and then youcan request a mission from them. An agent's level, ranging from 1 to5, determines how hard the missions from that agent will be(with level 1 being easy, level 5 being hard).
Completing missions will get you ISK rewards, andcorporation standingincreases. After enough agent missions, youare given an important storyline missionthat will increase yourfaction standing.
What is Agent Level?
Agents have a level, and it can range from level 1 through level 5.This number is a measure of how hard the missions are that a particularagent will give you. Higher level agents usually give better rewardsfor missions, as well, including better ISK rewards, standing increases,and items.
Level 1 missions (that is, missions given by level 1 agents) are easy, and level 5 missionsare very hard. Tutorial Agents can kind of be considered to be level 0agents, because their missions are easier than level 1, usually.
Finding an agent: Who is the best agent with whom I can currently work?
Use the Nearby Agent Search to find good agentsto work for.
Or, in-game,your character sheet is a good starting point for finding the bestagents that are currently available to you. Your availableagents depend on your standing with factions and corporations, so look atthe standings tab of your character sheet. The best agent available to youis probably going to be an agent from the faction that you have the higheststanding with, in the corporation of that faction that you have the higheststanding with. Open up the information window for that corporation.Read the next section to find the best agent available to you in thatcorporation.
Finding an agent: Who is the best agent available to me in a specific corporation?
Use the Nearby Agent Search to find agents of a particularcorporation to work for.
In the corporation window, click the Agents tab to see a list of agentsin that corporation. This list will show you which agents ofthis corporation are available to you, and which are not. The agents listis broken out into the different types of agents in that corporation.
Finding an agent: Who is a good available agent who is also nearby?
Use the Nearby Agent Search to find nearby agents.
Sometimes the best agents are far away, and you just want to find an agentwho is nearby. To do this, open up your map. If there is a specific corporation that you want to try to work for, and you are looking for anearby agent of that corporation that is available to you, open the information window for that corporation, click the agents tab, thenclick the button at the bottom that says "Show on Map." This will light up the solar systems that contain agents of that corporation. It will not, however, tell you if any of the agents in those systems areavailable to you.
Make a note of the nearest solar systems that have agents of the corporationthat you want to work for. (You can set a waypoint to each highlightedsolar system to find out how many jumps away it is.) Then, go to yourmap settings, and highlight solar systems based on Your Available Agents.The solar systems that contain agents available to you will glow green.Larger glowing spots mean that there are many agents available to youin those systems. Find the solar systems that you noted before, with theagents of your desired corporation. If that system glows green for you,mouse over it to see a list of available agents in that system. If thereis an agent of your desired corporation, make a note of it and check anyother nearby systems to find out if there is a better agent in one of those.Then just set a waypoint to the desired solar system and pay a visit to theagent you discovered.
