Sabriz Adoudel
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Posted - 2016.11.19 03:13:21 -
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If you are doing courier contracts, you will be competing with massive numbers of useful idiots that also do them.
The only way to compete with a useful idiot is to be more of an idiot (with the nature of courier contracts it's impossible to compete by being more useful as there's not really gradation - you either accept the contract or you do not).
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Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
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Posted - 2016.11.19 06:09:13 -
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There actually are a lot of jobs available.
I post a lot of them, and I post a lot less than many other players.
Incidentally, I used to post scam courier contracts often, but have since come to the conclusion that I can make more money out of legit contracts - mostly buying goods in Jita and reselling in Dodixie.
I support the New Order and CODE. alliance. www.minerbumping.com
Sabriz's Rule: "Any time someone argues for a game change claiming it is a quality of life change, the change is actually a game balance change".
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Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
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Posted - 2016.11.23 03:12:10 -
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Tipa Riot wrote:If you want to become a space trucker, jump in the Haulers Channel. The contracts posted there give you an idea how it works, and plenty of useful links in the MOTD. To be competitive you should be able to fly a properly fit Deep Space Transport with 60K fleet hangar (skill at lvl4) and have about 3B free ISK for collateral. I'm hauling my own stuff (nobody should get inside my business ) and sometimes pick up others. Be careful with high reward contracts elsewhere, those are 99% scams.
They are less than 99% scams. I post a good number of legit contracts on public contracts which are something like this:
- Jita to Dodi - 2b collateral (actual goods value 1600m) - DST size parcel - 10m payment - 14 days validity, 48 hours delivery window
That's above market rates for the payment (which is absurd, but markets are not logical). I'm banned from Haulers channel so can't post it there, but that contract will get done.
It might typically contain a marauder hull and a thousand tech 2 modules.
But again, OP - you are trying to compete with useful idiots. If I move a marauder and a thousand modules from Jita to Dodi, I'm looking to resell them at a 250-300 million markup. The useful idiot takes most of the risk, and gets all of ten million for their effort. Hence me calling them useful, and idiots.
I support the New Order and CODE. alliance. www.minerbumping.com
Sabriz's Rule: "Any time someone argues for a game change claiming it is a quality of life change, the change is actually a game balance change".
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