EVE General Discussion

It must be fun for some people, because my courier contracts always get scooped up real quick.

Mr Epeen

I imagine it's fun if done ethically.

Are you having existential moments there, Siggy?


Also, it's just a game. Haulers need to separate out how they feel when hauling away from RL. If hauling is such a drag for you, maybe Eve Online is not the game you should be playing.

Thanks to you Mr. Cohenberg sir, my hauling alt adventures are 100% more fun these days. Still only 100% of a very small amount of fun.

Believe it or not, there are people who do hauling for fun. An example.

That is what makes this game so special: there's an amazing variety of things you can do. While there's a big battle somewhere in the ominous vastness of Nullsec, there's also a guy piloting his Charon in Highsec, listening to his favorite music during a 32 jump route and enjoying the beautiful scenery while also feeling the stress as he approaches Uedama. Although not on the same level, it's actually quite similar to the stress felt by real sailors as they enter the pirate-infested waters across the Gulf of Aden. Watch this movie to see what it's like.

Very often, people who haul for fun are the ones who haul like a boss: with a webbing friend/alt, scouting and reinforced bulkheads.

As any legendary freighter bumper will tell you, (I salute you Taishan Mandragoran, Krissada, D35) it's impossible to get the initial bump on a freighter who properly uses the webbing technique. (well unless the freighter decloaks right on top of your Machariel). After jumping to a system, a properly webbed freighter warps away so quickly that the ship actually moves sideways at the beginning of the warp. At that precious moment, as your warp drive starts, it's fun to stare at the bumper and say Good Bye!!

AFK Haulers? No, they're not having fun. They're not even playing the game. How can you have fun when you're not actively engaging with the game? I'm not even sure why they bother logging in. They actually deserve getting ganked, especially the full-time AFKers.

Even hauling becomes fun when you stay at keyboard and play the game.

Hauling is more fun, related to the value of your cargo.

I used to haul my own shinies, but then realised Frog industries do it better, at no risk, and very affordably.
Im nonetheless skilling an alt for BR, but I still swear by RF freight, and they aint never let me down.

They remain remarkably anonymous, and I have no idea of their profits and organisational structure, but I do know they do their job extremely well. I take their services for granted, will continue to use them, providing them content and isk, and wish them all the best cos goddam they are nailing their angle right to the wall with impeccable results.

Keep on rollin', you glorious muthertruckers!

TOOT TOOT!

PS: Am nonetheless always keeping an eye out for other upcoming hauling enterpreneurs.
If you will cover my value reasonably, and charge less for the haul, we can do perpetual weekly business.

Hauling is NOT fun, you will be harassed by CCP, CODE and Globby, they will all destroy you and laugh in your face, you will never have a chance to move your stuff anywhre.

CCP offers no way for you to protect yourself, while moving though highsec, you're as good as dead as soon as you undock. CCP doesn't care if people cheat or scam you, while CCP themselves SUPPORT people that kill freighter pilots...

you'd be better off joining the people that KILL haulers, because you'd at least be on the side that 's making isk!

Oh, and did I tell you that CCP actually supports these people that try to kill you... it seems that your rage for having lost everyhting you've worked for just makes them happy!

the Hauling killers have 100% of the vantage points and you have ZERO...you will die. it's just a matter of time.

WATCH IT FAIR PLAY DOES NOT Exist for haulers, CCP goes out of their way to make sure the bad guys have the upper hand!

Fly safe in your shuttle!

That's some bad advice right there. Shuttles aren't safe.

Those are some glorious tears Jax. Your rant thread was pretty good as well, too bad it got locked so quick. It takes you 5 months to grind out 5 bil? If it takes you that long to make 5 bil and then you think it's a good idea to put all of your eggs in not only an unprotected basket but a basket you purposely made even flimsier by adding cargo expanders, this really isnt the game for you. It's one big contest, every move you make has potential consequences. You made a series of poor choices and paid a large price for it. Learn from it and move on or run a way in defeat.

Hauling can be great fun when you're doing it in the right circumstances, it's quite dull if you do it with an alt in an NPC corp because there's very little risk so it's a simple back and forth trip in a slow boat... do a bit of hauling on your main character with a mixture of war-decs from 'merc' groups that often live around the trade hubs and things can get a lot more fun and exciting.

I quite enjoy picking up a stockpile of goods from a hub an transporting it to our base within a low-sec cluster, it has the thrill of constantly looking out for possible threats to keep things fun. Hauling through a chain of wormholes is another fun activity as you can rarely tell who is lurking in wait for a score.
Every now and then I'll give the job to more dedicated hauling groups like Black Frog if I'm shifting stuff that isn't for my own personal use, but most of the time I like spending some time travelling between 30-40 jumps for a change of pace.