Ships & Modules

I have a pretty big ISK pool so yes, I can pay the collateral. I actually have enough money to get myself a Charon and still be able to pay it up. Hell, I could even get a Rhea if I wished.
However, I'm hearing all this sh*t about CODE ganking freighters out of nowhere, scam contracts that suck up all your money etc etc.
So should I consider being a space trucker?

Passing on the risk to the next guy is a good way of not losing a lot of money ...
... and you save the money wasted for the freighter.

If you haul it yourself, I hope not on this char.

About how much are we talking here anyway?

if you have the isk, millions or billion its usualy better to invest it in something with good returns, trading is definatly better with stuff people commonly sell. and if you moving stuff around (like say moving stuff from small hub to jita, or inter regional) you get to haul thing anway, which isn't realy fun.

Also if you have money for expensive collateral it would be best to use that for a freighter or fancy industrial, some of the specialized ones realy good at carrying allot real fast.

Consider the following:
Hauler fee for good "indie" contract is 400k per jump.
Hauler fee for good "freighter" contract is 1,6m per jump.
You can't get stable flow of good contracts.
Your average contract will have collateral more than 200m.
Freighter cost speaks for itself.

it is a very useful mechanic. I use courier contracts somewhat often and it is nice to get stuff delivered and typically not pay a lot to get it. However in the public courier realm there just aren't enough good contracts to really be worth it most of the time. I also usually pay a good rate so they get done quickly. Most of the ones that stick around are the scams or just not worth doing. Corp/alliance courier contracts are great, and then groups like red-frog which require you to pay a certain amount and limit collateral to make it worthwhile for their pilots.

imo there are too many costs and not enough rewards to make it an attractive offer, but plenty of people seem to do it.

Couldn't be worse than mining...

I consider hauling a nice minigame when I'm sick of doing other things.

Or running missions, for that matter...




OP, with a name like yours, I would've thought hauling would be far too mundane for the likes of you. Wouldn't you be more comfortable shooting Nazis and monsters?

I generally consider hauling something of a chore.

There's many ways to make ISK in EVE and even more ways to be subsequently parted from it.

I know some space truckers who do logistics work for a major alliance. Keeping a great many Jump Bridge Towers fuelled and online takes considerable amounts of *effort* and the alliance rewards them well for their time spent doing such a mind-numbingly dull, repetitive activity.

Public Courier Contracts through HiSec are perhaps best thought of as an exceedingly high risk activity with, at best, meager rewards.

Just remember: It's a trap.