Back in the days when I started playing EVE someone told me to go to Minmatar space and do their agent missions because they are better somehow than the others. Now I resumed playing EVE and I was wondering about this. Where should I go to do agent missions? Which faction? My character is Caldari but I have relatively good standings with the Minmatar agents.
Edit: My main goal for mission running is to get ISK so I can buy a PLEX. If I remember right it used to be a good way to quickly farm up one.
Edit: I'm Caldari by default but if there is no significant difference between the different factions' R&D agents I do not really care which one I run.
Best Answer
I've always thought of this as a bit of personal preference, but if you're looking at being a hardcore mission runner, a good suggestion is to pick a faction that has multiple Level 4 mission agents in a station. Additionally, since you gain standing with an NPC corporation more quickly than with a faction itself, multiple L4 agents from the same corporation in the same station is preferable. It will take much longer to grind up your faction standings to be able to pull missions from all agents in all NPC corps allied to a particular faction, so it's generally best to focus on running missions for that one corporation at first. Once you manage to get 5.0 or better standing with a faction, you'll be able to run L4s for any corp allied with that faction.
It is for this reason that I personally used to run missions for Theology Council in Amarr space. Theology Council has two L4 agents located in Sasoutikh, allowing you to pull multiple missions at once and run both of them before returning to station.
Next, if you're running missions you'll probably want to review a mission guide for tips on what ships will trigger new spawns and/or how to blitz the mission if your goal is to increase standing. Eve-Survival is generally regarded as the best mission guide around.
Lastly, don't take my suggestion of Theology Council as an absolute. It's merely the only system that I can think of off the top of my head that offers multiple Level 4 agents in one location. If you've got the time, I would encourage you to do some searching through the Eve Agent search to see if there are any other systems with multiple agents which might be better for mission running.