Where do I find what?

I'm off away from empire, so no cosmos for the time being. As a reminder to myself Im setting up this post to add in the location where the different componets can be found that are needed to build the BPC's you are rewarded.

Grinding, continued

Since there where no lvl 1 agents left, and no. lvl 2 agents that would talk to me I went back to grinding, this time for the "Urban Management" corp.

16 missions and one storyline later I have 2.10 standings with them, so Im now heading back to Ani to do 2 more missions.

Minmatar standings now -0.24. It's not fast, but I am getting there.

I said I'd post some minnie cosmos links. Here goes:

http://eveinfo.com/cosmos/minmatar/
http://brown10111.demon.co.uk/iui/cosmos/minmatar/index.asp
http://img330.imageshack.us/img330/9531/cosmos3pg.jpg
http://boom.kalf.org/games/eve/cosmos/ani.htm
http://majko1.evolink.ro/eve/minmatar_cosmos.html
http://majko1.evolink.ro/eve/AniCOSMOSv6.002.pdf
http://80.177.20.97/flashman/cosmos/minmatar/index.asp
http://go-dl3.eve-files.com/media/corp/krumlik/cosmos_bpc_igb.htm
I'll add more if I find them. Please inform me if you have others not listed above.

more minnie links:
http://www.eve-odessa.com/guides/en/CSMS/traun.html
http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Krak_Hakkars
http://gate.sunknight.net/ilias/LDU/forums.php?m=posts&q=895

Grinding

I have been running lvl 1 missions with Eifyr and Co. After mission 16 I got a storyline and did that, boosting my faction standings and having enough corp standings to use a lvl 2 agent. Mostly courier missions there, which are fast, safe and give a larger standings increase than the lvl 1 kill agent.

Corp standings now on 2.00, so back to Cosmos to run the lvl 2 missions for the Eifyr agents. Hope that gets me enough faction standing to use the lvl 3's later on. I shudder when I think about grinding more minnie missions.

Minmatar Cosmos (2)

I found out why my standings were decreasing:

the mission "Soft Drink Wars".

I get a standings decrease with the Minmatar Republic if I kill the merceneries that guard the anti-minmatar thief.

Even the mission description is talking about "helping our [gallante] friends. The mission cannot be completed without killing the merceneries.

I've done the mission twice now, second time to make sure that the mission is indeed the cause, and if there was any way to avoid killing the merc. IMO, there is not.

Conclusion: mission is bugged and should be avoided.

Minmatar Cosmos

I thought it might be smart to run the Minmatar Cosmos missions now before my standings are totally shot to hell. I'm Caldari, and have run a couple of missions where the minnie's where the target. Current standings is -2.46, corrected too -0.97 with diplomacy. Corp standings is just above 0, so they'll talk to me, be it with attitude.

My interest in the missions are the BPC's. I have a science alt and he's going to build the BPC's, either for use or sale.

Step one: fly there (Ani constellation) I flew down/bought one Enyo, one Drake and one Catalyst.
Step two: get the mission info ready using google. The Amarr cosmos missions are pretty well documenten, the minnie are not. There are a couple of good links though, I'll post them later on.
Step three: Get going.

After reading the missions, it turns out most of the missions require you to get things from "open" complexes in the constallation. So without accepting any mission, I took the drake and started "farming" the plexes. Once I had what I wanted, I flew 4 missions, some of which where multi part ones.

Once the local lvl 1 agents had been done, I thought Id try a lvl 2 one. Well forget that. "You require a 2.0 standign with agent, corp or faction." My standings with the minmatar had increased by a shocking 0.02% since starting the minnie missions. Joy...

So, i decided to do it another way. I looked up other, regular agent for the corporation the cosmos agents where working for. I could use the lvl 1 Q -7 agent. I did 4 missions, all very rapidly. Checking standings increase with the minmatar.... -0.8%! Seems I killed a Minmatar Republic mercenary somewhere along the lines.

That's it so far. Ill continue doing the lvl 1 missions 'til i get a storyline, and if that doesn't give me nice boost, Ill just head back home and start killing minnies just for the hell of it.

And so it starts

I'll use this space to enter anything Eve related that is worth saving. Let's see where it goes from here.