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Steps to getting a Freighter?

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Jaques Mcgoddard
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-05-30 11:52:04 UTC
I was wondering how I would aquire a ship with a large capacity? I only have around 400,000 ISK so far, and I'm not sure where I could get some good paying missions. Any insight?
ISD Decoy
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#2 - 2014-05-30 11:59:27 UTC
Hi Jaques,

Please see the following link on Industrial Ships. This may be a good first step for you if your intent is to complete distribution missions and courier contracts. If you cannot afford an entry industrial ship, you can fit a smaller hull with cargo expanders and complete level one distribution missions with relative success.

With some patience, hard work, and saving, you can work up to the higher missions and contracts and move onto Freighters.

Good luck and have fun!

ISD Decoy

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Mark Sviridoff
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-05-30 12:00:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Mark Sviridoff
If you do all tutorial missions you should be able to get nereus and 12 milions in the wallet. So you can also buy iteron mark v. But on your place I would start security missions, not delivery, since it is more fun and much more money. Always element of surprise, what you you will find in a loot box, quicker raise of standings etc...

From tutorial missions you should also get a mining frigate. Buy 2 meta 3 lasers for it and you will get over milion of ISK per hour even AFK mining. All you need is to mine in 0.9-1.0 sec systems and spend 2 minutes every 25 minutes to unload your cargo.


ISD Decoy wrote:
If you cannot afford an entry industrial ship, you can fit a smaller hull with cargo expanders and complete level one distribution missions with relative success.



Even if he could , level 1 distribution missions are best done in imicus with cargo hold expanders. Frigates are much more faster.
Dirk Magnum
Spearhead Endeavors
#4 - 2014-05-30 12:06:59 UTC
Freight is an ISK-intensive exercise with little pauoff if you haul trade goods. Hauling player equipment and fuel is an important part of alliance logistics, but they have alts for that on account of the security risk of hiring a freighter pilot with no history of loyalty to the alliance. The Red Frog Freight corporation allows trustworthy pilots to earn ISK by moving the packages of third parties. Even then, you'll have to be able to put up collateral ahead of time in the event you get ganked and lose the cargo.

Gankers love to knock down freighters in high sec, so you'll always have to be on your guard and not fly AFK.

Freighters are being nerfed this summer.

All that said:
Train a ship to run level 4 missions quickly.
Train an industrial to 5.
Train maneuver skills to 5.
Get freighter ISK.
Have fun?

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Marc Callan
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-05-30 12:07:34 UTC
I believe the Business and Industry advanced tutorial lines each include a baseline industrial hauler in their rewards. "Freighter" actually has a more specific meaning within EVE - not simply a hauler, but a high-capacity specialist ship. Freighters can cost over a billion ISK for the hull alone.

In between, you've got blockade runners (small, fast haulers that can use covert ops cloaks), deep-space transports (slower but tougher, higher-capacity ships), and the Orca (technically an industrial command ship, but often seen repurposed as a heavy transport/light freighter/"jeep carrier").

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegurt
Jur Tissant
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2014-05-30 12:31:11 UTC
An Iteron Mark V can carry over 30,000 m3 with cargo rigs and modules which you can train up in less than a week. You should also take a look into the specialized Gallente haulers which can carry a ton of ore, minerals, or PI.

A freighter is still going to be a long way off. Even once you have the skills, you still have to ask yourself whether paying over 1 billion for a freighter is worth it for you yet.
Jaques Mcgoddard
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2014-05-30 16:23:14 UTC
Thanks for the info, I'll look into the different methods.
Wildmouse X
Interstellar Pipelayers Union
#8 - 2014-05-30 17:15:23 UTC
doing the first 10 business and industry tutorial missions will net you 2 freighters and 2 ventures to boot.
Esmerelda 'Esme' Weatherwax
Ant Bank
#9 - 2014-05-30 17:32:58 UTC
Wildmouse X wrote:
doing the first 10 business and industry tutorial missions will net you 2 freighters and 2 ventures to boot.


Nope. Not every industrial ship is a freighter. The word "freighter" is reserved for extremely large and slow ships which cost way too much for a newbie. You probably meant standard T1 industrial ships, like Nereus, Badger, Bestower, Wreathe and so on.
Vortexo VonBrenner
Doomheim
#10 - 2014-05-30 18:23:28 UTC
You're Gallente, so go for the path to iteron V

Learn the MWD + cloak trick

Use evecentral.com to find available trades all over New Eden that can be done in any size ship (set time filter to 1 hour, don't try to do the most profitable trades - they get snatched up and completed really quickly - do the third or fourth most profitable trades mostly. Check that there is still an open buy order at your destination for what you intend to trade before you buy the stuff.)

As has been mentioned, in EVE the terms freighter and industrial / hauler refer to very different types of ship.

Lastly, please remember that one of the best things about EVE is that there are so many things to do. o/

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Tarthaliondor
Pathway to the Next
#11 - 2014-05-30 20:57:24 UTC
Also for some extra starting isk and items/ships etc. The starter tutorial mission have two clones of them in other systems (cant remember the system names off hand). You might find it worthwhile to run through the tutorial missions at the other two hubs as well you could also do the same for the other three factions if you wanted so you would have some nice standings with all four empire factions.

It wont give you the isk to afford the freighter as they cost over a billion isk but will give you a good start, lots of practice and good standings with all empire factions so you can more easily choose where to run your distribution missions from.