Sabriz Adoudel
Mission BLITZ
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Posted - 2014.06.19 06:18:00 -
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Greeneggs N'Ham wrote:I think the primary newbie's alt - the hauler alt - is a waste of isk in most cases. I've found courier contracts, especially utilizing PUSH or Red Frog Freight, to be more economical in the vast majority of cases. Case in point: My newbcorp was war dec'd last month. I just used courier contracts to keep my industry business moving stuff to market and jump-cloned to the station there later to set up orders. Easy peasy, cost me a lot less than a PLEX and I didn't even have to log off my main.
This is very true. The time you do want a hauler alt is if you want things moved into lowsec frequently, particularly fairly rare items.
Let's say your corp pretends to be a lowsec PVE corp, but the Marauders are a trap - you are only running sites in Marauders in order to bait people into attacking you with capitals and supercapitals. When one of you is attacked, your corpmates log on in Heavy Interdictors, cyno ships, and ambush your attacker.
In this case, you will need replacement Heavy Interdictor hulls and cyno equipment in specific areas of lowsec. In this situation, yes, your corp *does* need a hauler alt that is not a corporation member.
That is a very different situation to a highsec trader, who does not need a hauling alt as they can just get a public contractor to do the work for them.
If you want to experiment with alts, I highly recommend an off-account suicide ganking alt. It's fun, sociable (as it's often a fleet activity), and while initially you will lose ISK out of the endeavour, longer term you can steal more ISK than you feed to CONCORD. Plus you can do it without dirtying the hands of your main, who might even be offering fake sympathy in local to the person that was just ganked, then selling the gankee a replacement ship at a profit.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=346564 - a proposal to overhaul the Logistics skill
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=238931 - an idea for a new form of hybrid PVE/PVP content.
www.minerbumping.com - ganking miners and causing chaos |