EVE General Discussion

There has been a noticable drop in public hi-sec courier contracts. Looks like the hauling corps are cornering the market leaving slim pickings for freelance haulers.

Interesting development.

never doubted it

I cannot tell if you are complaining or not. But I can tell you the purpose of any corporation is to improve itself for the benefit of the members inside the corporation at the expense of those not in the actual corp. It is only natural that corporations put themselves in advantageous positions to what else, Have an advantage.

Corporations will have this effect on anything from hauling, incursions, and faction warfare to 0.0 PvP and logistics. Cooperate and interact with other players for best success <3

That is indeed absurd. Maybe he/she was planning an assault?

A collateral, which is slightly higher than the real value on market should be enough.

It's not everyone, just known whiners.

Stop whining about other people whining you stupid whiner.

Why? There is always the option NOT TO ACCEPT that contract.
One of the most important required skills for EVE is "reading ability"

I do not like restrictions, because of there might be someone, who fails because of not able to deal with the freedom. As long as all can clearly be seen in the contract, there's IMHO no need to restrict anything.

Your post was bad and you should feel bad for posting it.

This past weekend, I had the wind taken out of my sails for running courier contracts. After idling for nearly two years in the game collecting skill points, too bad I did not wait another week to do _something_.

Normally I do not go out of my way to run contracts. But if I am heading towards one of the other three empires outside Minmatar space, a casual look to fill empty cargo space never hurt. Then once I am whereever I was heading, another casual look for anything running back ~home~ never hurt. This past weekend, I was in Jita and reviewed the available contracts. There was one heading towards Dodixie - a bit out of the way, but doable. Since I have been idle, my available ISK was not rich but borderline poor. So while the collateral was almost all my available ISK, in the past, I have run contracts worth more (and less). One more pass over the available contracts to see if anything heading my way with my remaining fund was possible, but finding nothing there, I decided to undock.

Entering space screen, black screen, time passes, black screen still lingering, etc. Finally the outside of Jita is there and crowded as ever. Somewhere in that mess is me... What just flashed on my screen?

I look at my status bar and see three red stripes followed quickly by three white stripes. Initially, I figure the game was placing me into space as I have seen it in the past. Suddenly, there I am floating aimlessly in my pod.

Where the hell is my friggin' ship?

Upper left hand corner pops up a message offering an apology over the loss of my ship. I quickly get out of there before my pod becomes a casualty. After collecting myself, I review what has been available and send the owner of the contract an apology letter for loosing his package. The courier contract did have items of value. I wrote again asking if I collect the items, then could we finish the deal, which was denied. Basing on what the ganker used for ship and weapons, overall that combined loss was greater than my collateral; so doubt there was a connection (but I could be wrong).

Licking my wounds, I am wiser, but more wary of any public contracts now.

That's why you haul it with a character that didn't accept the contract if it feels fishy. They'll shoot you while your alt delivers.