Missions & Complexes

Just found this on the old forums,

Guide to maximizing your Mission profits,


To my fellow mission runners I'd like to share some tips on maximizing the return on your loot. No, this doesn't belong in the market forum -- this is not a trade how-to guide, it's my experience with getting the most out of Missioning.

Active time is very valuable to a mission runner (as opposed to a trade alt). The last thing you want to do is engage in docked up .01 isk wars in Jita. Nor do you want to spend a lot of time hauling loot to a sales hub -- that's why so many sell to buy orders right at the mission hub,

1. What to keep, that to sell, what to melt.

Non-named mission drops sell for slightly less than their mineral value.
Other than a few items with obscenely long production times (e.g., Damage Control) it's possible for anyone to make far more of these modules than anyone would ever want even without rat droppings in the mix. Don't bother trading these.

Named items with less than 20k market value are not worth clogging up trade slots with.

What's left is your ammunition to fire at traders at a trade hub.

2. Logisitics

How you get your giant stash of remaining goods to market depends on how large the stash is. If it's only a few thousand m^3 you can transport it fairly quickly by cargo expanding and shield tanking a battleship. You can haul about 3000 m^3 in armor tankable BSes while still having a respectable tank. Fit a MWD, don't AFK and you'll have no problems.

If you're looking at a freighterload, courier contracts are your best bet. Separate the loot into about 17000 or 100,000 m^3 stacks and create courier contracts to the nearest hub. You can search current region contracts to get an idea of what typical rewards and collateral for hauling are. You'd be surprised how reasonable they can be. The downside is they may take a while to happen. Ask in your favorite channel for someone with a freighter alt -- they might be able to help you out for a few million.

Whatever you do don't just pile all your crap into an untanked, cargo expanded hauler and set AP to Jita.


3. Closing the deal

If you want to avoid .01 ISK wars with the lemmings the only approach is 'shock and awe.' Your strategy needs to be closer to slashing, burning and pillaging than caring and nurturing.

For every stack of items right click and check the market value. If the difference between the lowest trade hub sales order and buy order is 20% or larger you will want to move this item via sell order. Undercut hard -- if the items are all at 230k sales, offer them for 220k. Or 210k. You want to give the traders incentive to buy you out right away, not play undercutting games.

For items with a 5-10% spread in bid to ask you're better off just selling to the sales order.

Pay attention to very profitable items. For example, at the moment a 'Refuge' Adaptive Nano Plating I has a 100% profit margin. That's worth trading, not just unloading. As you move your horde of loot you may find some items worth trading.

4. Do I need some skills and other stuff for this?

Biggest bang for buck skills are Accounting, Broker Relations, Trade (to IV) and Retail. You don't need months of training, a few days is all it'll take. Freshly rolled trade alts work fine.

Good standings reduce broker fees. Jita 4-4 requires Caldari Navy standings, and Rens requires Brutor Tribe standings. You can easily identify the trade hub stations by examining mineral buy and sell orders. Right click on the order, location->show info and click on the corporate logo to see your standings.


Posted By Clair Bear

regardless who wrote what,

its about maximizing your income from running missions, the OP isn't around anymore so i updated it for him.

Bottom line
It is more profitable to use Universal Jita than to haul and sell the stuff yourself. and its the only reason it was updated in the post

Thank You

Cheers spitfire, job done

Obviously missed the link in my sig rofl, there is an easyer way