EVE General Discussion

Serious question here. I do all my own hauling and it is a pain every time. Thankfully I rarely need to haul so it doesn't happen very often.

For those that actually make their living in this game hauling, do you enjoy it?
For those also haul their own stuff, do you like moving your own goods?

Basically ITT just talk about the fun/h you get while space trucking.

Some people are just new age flagellants.

I can't imagine making a career of hauling but with the way industry and markets are set up, I guess someone has to do it.
(and if they do it AFK... well there's a cure for that)
Hauling in the T1 (and soon T2) industrials is not too bad but I still try to avoid having to shift stuff.

This is why whenever I stay in a single area for any amount of time I just start gathering the things I often use there.
As a result I have all these 'treasure piles' scattered across space.
My assets tab drives my OCD friends nuts.

No, hauling is not *fun*.

Unless you're in a brick tanked Deep Space Transport with a web, scram and some mates on the other side of the gate waiting to jump in.

However, as a general rule, no. Mind you, trade-hub runs get a lot less tedious in a blockade runner.



I think of it as one of life's underrated pleasures. Have you ever felt worse after the paperwork's complete?

I guess I like hauling, but not all the time.

Spent about 3 hours trade-hauling tonight. Earned ~450m, but I like to stick to the low risk stuff.

I was only using one freighter; I own 5 Charon and 3 Rhea.

i like hauling in null because its edgy as fck

If making bucketloads of ISK is fun, then yes, hauling is fun. But, it isn't that simple...

In the last many months, especially since June, what has made hauling fun (for me, at least) is content creators like yourself. While ATK play was the norm 99.9% of the time for me, nowadays AFK piloting these loot pinatas is suicidal, and many of the aspects of PvP come into play. While a freighter can't shoot a gun, things like scouting, making tacticals, and having an escort (among other things) are a necessity, particularly going through Uedama and Niarja, and surrounding systems.

So - thank you for making hauling a lot more interesting, and engaging. I can't say that the majority of haulers, including those in my corporation/alliance, are going to agree with my view, though

Desert Frog
Contract Manager
Red Frog Freight

Depends on what you're hauling and where.

Ore through highsec: meh.

Cloaky hauler through lowsec: yeah, ok.

Boosters 30 jumps through HS: i find it fun.

I'm a lazy lazy person. As a result of this whenever my alliance moves it's home base and I'm told 'MOVE ALL YOUR ****' I move a couple cargo holds worth of stuff and a few ships and that's pretty much it.
I don't like moving stuff.
I don't like being a target unless I'm packing heat and ready to respond.
As a result I have learned to embrace a decentralized approach to things.
Different playstyles demand different things from their operators.
My pve uber carebear buddy is all about having his stuff in one place, and he preens over his 'ship'....
For myself, I have a veritable fleet scattered all over high sec, a few bits of low sec and maybe a spot or two in null.
The notion being 'oh snap, I got kaboomed... oh, three jumps to my nearest combat ship'. For him, catastrophe if sudden decompression happens.