Science & Industry

My courier contract rates are reasonable.

50k per jump for highsec contracts.

250k per lowsec jump.

Don't even bother with null, as nobody takes them. Nobody takes anything with lowsec jumps nowadays either. Not talking freighter hauls either. Like things a low skilled bestower or sometimes covops could do.

As I said, my contracts can be done by a noob in a bestower. If I had a freighter load I would pay much more.

You and your fuckin Blog, jesus get over yourself.

And here I keep chastising myself being so paranoid for double and triple checking my contracts. Not going to stop doing that anytime soon.

Well black frog does that regularly for viable rates.

Anyone know usual rate for jumpfreighters?

Or we could just use red frog instead

There are hauler bots that will take pretty much any highsec-only contract for pretty much any price. I only put more than a few thousand isk total if I want it moved in the next 24-48 hours.

Personally I overpay by most peoples definition of what to pay. When I had a freighter load to be moved before I think I payed them close to 1mil per jump for it for all hi sec jumps. But in general your looking at 100-500k a jump with what I pay, I just choose a number I like for how valuable the cargo is and weight.

Admittedly, I'm pretty new to the game but I'd tend to agree. I've pretty much just been running frigate class around in lowsec hoping my speed and wits will get me through (has so far!). You can be sure I'm not going to take a contract with 20M collateral for $10k/jump.

The lower end of ISK I've taken is around 10K/jump, but those are for contracts through high-sec with no more than maybe a few hundred thousand collateral. Anything I've taken with >1M collateral has been at least 20K/jump (if I'm desperate), more often around 30-40 and stretching up to 150-300k for some shorter, more out of the way contracts. (The 300K/jump was with 12M collateral out in the boonies.)

It's fair to say I don't care what your cargo is worth, but I do care how much of my money I'm putting on the line to haul it. I'm not going to risk 12M ISK for a measly 100K ISK. The risk to reward ratio is just too great.

I think a better way to look at it, rather than purely per volume or jump, is to consider the risk to reward ratio.

Looking through my previous contracts, it looks like they've ranged anywhere from 0.2 to 80 (that is, for every one ISK of reward, I put up that many ISK as collateral).

If I'm flying a short haul (say, 5 jumps) through safe space (>=0.8) I might be willing to go as high as 40:1. That is, on a 1M collateral, I'll do it for maybe $25,000.

If I'm flying a long haul (say, 30 jumps) through safe space (>=0.8) I'd still want to risk less because the time I spend exposed is higher. Maybe 20:1. So on a 1M, pay $50,000.

If I'm flying short haul through lower security systems (0.4-0.6) I'd be looking more for 15:1. So on 1M, pay around $70,000.

Long haul through lower security maybe 8:1. So on 1M, pay $125,000.

You'd need to work in a payment per jump in with that base... Perhaps just adding it on top. So maybe add your $10k/jump on top of that and adjust up and down for how out of the way it is, how quickly you'd like it done, etc. So if you want me to fly 25 jumps through 0.4-0.6 systems with 1M collateral, look at around $375,000.

And keep in mind that anything under $100k isn't even going to get a second look unless I happen to already be right on top of it from the completion of my last contract. If it's a few jumps away it's just not worth my time for such a small contract... It might the same per jump, but at the end my bank balance isn't really going to move.

That all said, remember I'm just some random noobie. I'm sure there are people that aren't so picky with their contracts, but every time I look I sure do see a lot paying $3-5k/jump sitting there day after day... Or paying $10k/jump with a 15M collateral.