Distribution agents just LOVE to send you off to lowsec destinations, paying SLIGHTLY higher rewards for these dangerous missions. The biggest problem is the potential losses involved. You can't ensure that an industrial will survive a trip through lowsec, but you can buy a cheap one and use a jump clone with no implants installed so there's little loss if you do get shot. But if you lose the ship carrying the mission cargo, you lose the cargo which is necessary for completion of the mission. If you fail the mission, you lose 10-20 missions worth of standings with the NPC corp, and you even lose several storyline missions worth of faction standings. Those hits are simply not worth the risk unless you can find a secluded spot with tons of distribution agents, or get someone to fly with you.

My solution? Take out the huge standings hit (make it a tiny standings hit, like 1-2 missions worth, no faction standings hit) and instead the mission should require a substantial down payment of collateral to accept, thus losing the cargo means you lose the collateral. This way, a daring pilot who believes they can mitigate risks would be willing to gamble their isk on the assumption that they will succeed enough missions to make more money than they lose. They won't have to worry about a string of bad luck severely crippling their standings to the point of forcing them to run level 2-3 agents for a while.

Thoughts?

Driving trucks? People actually do that?

/c

I understand to each his own, people like different things...etc etc etc.

However, Courier missions? Seriously?! People actually do them?

Why?

Driving trucks? People actually do that?

/c

But its like driving trucks for an imaginary friend who pays you in vending machine tokens.

Somewhere out there right now somebody is pretending to be Malcom Reynolds.

Somewhere out there right now somebody is pretending to be Malcom Reynolds.