Originally Posted by Gerrard
You need a certain amount of standing with the NPC corp you want to work with before you are allowed level 2 agents. The higher the quality of the agent, the higher the standing needed. For level 2 I believe it's between 1.0 and 3.0. You can either work at level 1 agents to grind the standing up (you get storyline missions after every 15-16 missions you do with one agent that increases your standing by a big amount as well), or train the Connections skill which increases your standing by 4% (ie 0.4) per level. Or indeed do both.
If you plan on sticking with missions, make sure you pick a corp that has medical facilities at some of their starbases. This will allow you to buy a jumpclone when your standing hits 8.0. You also get tax free refining when you get tp 6.67 as well.
Thanks mate, do you know if regional standing plays a part? I got one guy up to 5.6 with no level 2 agent, he wasn't in my corp though so i figured that was the problem, got a 0 quality agent up to 4.something in my corp now, so I should get a new agent soon hopefully.