EVE General Discussion

I like the Viator (Blockade Runner) for courier contract running. You'll definitely need a blockade runner, or a scout if you are smuggling goods into/through low-sec. The cloak is your "tank" essentially, but I throw some medium shield extenders in the mids to get through the occasional bad smart bombing gate camp, and of course cargo hold expanders and cargo hold optimization rigs on it. Some people scream bloody murder against cargo expanders on 'cade runners and would rather sacrifice cargo space for other things like inertia stabs for faster aligning or overdrive injectors. But I don't run courier contracts in null, so there are no bubbles to worry about in low-sec, so I could care less about anything else in the lows.

As for Nullsec contracts, if the destination/pickup station isn't in NPC null, then it's probably a trap/scam due to the fact that 90% of player controlled null (except Providence) will not let you dock in their stations. If you do happen to take a contract for a pickup/drop off destination in a player controlled station and you can't dock, then you can kiss your collateral goodbye

As for "pre-arranged ganks", I'm not too sure how much these actually exist. I could image gate camps being setup for low-sec border systems expecting someone in a non-cloaky/non-stabbed hauler to come through with the bait contract, but since I run cloaky haulers, I've never seen nor been a victim of this.

I'll add more info if I can think of anything later.

So stay away from Null. Check. And yet there seems to be all manner of people complaining about hi-sec carebears. Hey Null Sec people, get rid of the asshat's that give Null-sec a bad name, and maybe we'll come visit you from time to time!

We don't need you. And we like our ass-hats.

You're suggesting High-sec people are what gives Null sec a bad name? Umm. okay....

Mostly, yes. After all, without any experience of it, they're free to come up with the most outrageous claims and spread among others who also have no experience and thus can't disagree.

There is something you don't understand. Null-sec people (those on the forum, at least, I guess there are other ones who are not asshats but don't go on the forums) are just like Hi-sec wardeccers. They will taunt you because you stay in your risk free environment (station for wardeccers, empire for null-seccers), but they don't really want you to live in null, they just want you to go there and then kill you.

They taunt you so that you become a target for their blobs, that's all. And no, they will never acknowledge that this is their ****** mentality that causes their lack of targets, even though everyone else (and maybe even themselves) know it's true.

If you've got the toons to do it, try using Blops + Blockade Runners.

Just realized this was nothing more than a stealth nerf null-sec thread.

You should run courier contracts in an Obelisk through Fountain.

Edit: On auto-pilot.

If you really want to grief null-sec bears, grab a cov ops with an expanded prober, some combat probes, and fly out to their farming systems where their PVE carriers are. (This works even better/funnier if you're in a NPC corp and name your cov ops frig "cyno") Then make a safe spot, launch the combat probes, and minimize EVE to play other things.

*Bonus Griefer Points*
Once in a while pretend that you accidentally posted in local instead of an intel channel and say things in local like "2 thanny's in an anom, bookmark posted". or "yeah, about 150km off their POS shields".

If the ship you plan to take is the kind of ship that can be ganked, then don't take the contract. When flown properly, blockade runners, t3's, and covops are virtually impossible to catch or gank. If the cargo doesn't fit in one of those things, then you have no business taking the contract. And if the cargo DOES fit in one of those things, then it shouldn't matter if its a trap or not, you should be able to complete it (unless you accept a contract into a player owned station that you cannot dock in). Just watch out for suicide ganks on the undock near the hisec pickup location.

Also, "get people to carry expensive stuff.." thats if they have ridiculous buy orders set up or something. If its a courier, they'll give you junk to haul, but with a high collateral. They would never give you something overly expensive if they plan to shoot at you, since that would hurt their profit.