Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2012.02.10 19:48:00 -
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If your public courier contracts are not getting moved in a timely fashion, then either:
- You're offering too little per jump/trip
- The collateral is out of reach or nobody wants to risk that much
- You live in the back end of nowhere
- The cargo size is larger then what the average shipper can carry
For small contracts, keep the size under 25k m3 and less then 30-50M ISK. Otherwise T1 industrial pilots won't be able to carry it. Or try to stay under 40k m3 for very high value contracts, so that they can be shoved inside an Orca. Once you get above 70k m3, you're generally looking at freighters to move your stuff (some Orca pilots will carry 75-90k m3 packages, but it reduces their tank quite a bit and makes them nervous).
The really big contracts (over 900k m3) require a very highly skilled freighter pilot, using either a Charon or Obelisk. Don't go over 860k m3 if possible. See the following for a link of where the various T1 freighters top out at based on the pilot's skill level:
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Hauling#Freighters
ISK/jump varies. As Ajita says, while you might get something moved in a freighter for 20-50k ISK/jump, it usually only happens if the freighter pilot is going that direction anyway. If you're in the middle of nowhere, more then 3-4 jumps away from a major trade hub, expect to have to offer a lot more (100-200k/jump) to get a freighter pilot interested.
Keep collateral under 1B ISK for freighters / orcas, and you'll generally get it moved more often via public contracts. Packages with 2+ billion ISK collateral take longer to move and are a lot riskier for the hauler. Go with one of the "known" hauling corps and make arrangements in advance. You'll pay extra for high collateral.
And, for the times when you absolutely need it moved, within a definite time frame of a few days - go with PUSH, Red Frog, or one of the many other dedicated hauling corps.
(One way to keep RF/PUSH rates from eating your profit is to always ship at least 750M ISK per trip, rather then shipping 100M here, 200M there.) |