Last edited by NoamChomsky:
L4 courier missions only go up to 7,500 m3, not 8k
Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:02 UTC
L4 courier missions only go up to 7,500 m3, not 8k
Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:02 UTC
Courier Missions
Level 1 Courier Missions
Jump distance (one-way): 0 - 5 (Destination: agent's constellation)Cargo amount:
- 0.1m3 - 350m3 (Courier/Trade)
- ? - 99.9m3 (Trade Storyline)
Level 2 Courier Missions
Jump distance (one-way): 0 - 5 (Destination: maximum neighboring constellation)Cargo amount:
- 0.1m3 - 420m3 (Courier/Trade)
- ? - 1500m3 (Trade Storyline)
Level 3 Courier Missions
Jump distance (one-way): 0 - 12 (Destination: maximum neighboring constellation - may cross regional border)Cargo amount:
- 0.1m3- 4200m3 (Courier/Trade)
- ? - 6000m3 (Trade Storyline)
Level 4 Courier Missions
Jump distance (one-way): 1 - 12 (Destination: always neighboring constellation - may cross regional border)Cargo amount:
- 3000m3 - 7500m3 (Courier/Trade)
- 1m3 - 40,000m3 (Trade Storyline)
Recommended Ships For Courier Missions
Note: Values listed are for unmodified ships without cargo expanders.
Below 10m3:
- Shuttle
Up to 100m3:
- Crucifier, Executioner, Inquisitor, Magnate, Tormentor, Punisher (Amarr)
- Bantam, Condor, Griffin, Heron, Kestrel, Merlin (Caldari)
- Atron, Imicus, Incursus, Maulus, Navitas, Tristan (Gallente)
- Breacher, Burst, Probe, Rifter, Slasher, Vigil (Minmatar)
Up to 300m3:
- Inquisitor, Magnate (Amarr)
- Heron, Kestrel (Caldari)
- Imicus (Gallente)
- Probe (Minmatar)
Up to 1000m3:
- Bestower, Sigil (Amarr)
- Badger, Badger II (Caldari)
- Iteron, Iteron II, Iteron III, Iteron IV, Iteron V (Gallente)
- Hoarder, Mammoth, Wreathe (Minmatar)
Above 6000m3:
- Bestower, Sigil (Amarr)
- Badger II (Caldari)
- Iteron IV, Iteron V (Gallente)
- Mammoth (Minmatar)
Tips
- The best ships for a particular cargo category are bolded.
- Use 2x Inertia Stabilizers to significantly reduce ship alignment time. Add 1x Nanofiber Internal Structure if your ship has the extra low slot.
- For Level 1 & Level 2 Courier/Trade missions - use the best 300m3 frigates as a general couriers.
- For Level 3 & Level 4 Courier/Trade missions - use any available industrial as general courier (due to their 4.5 au/s warp speed).
- For any mining missions, it is highly recommended that you bring an industrial to haul the ore.
- Bestower is the best low skill hauler 13,319m3 for about 11 hours of training (20,256 with rigs). (can't be trained on trial)
- Iteron mark V is the biggest 25,270m3 (38,433 rigged), 15 days to train.
- Mammoth 17,838m3 (27,129 with rigs) 3 days to train.
- As far as I remember, Level-2 Missions also send you out into neighbouring constellations.
- You might want to double-check the 0-4 jumps for Level-1 Missions. Last I did any, they sent me off to the next constellation same as the higher levels.
- As far as I am aware, the "haul Minerals for me" Large Courier missions (don't remember the exact name) hasn't been removed, but it is rather rare and I haven't had it in a while. So just to make sure, be aware that there might be larger courier missions than 7k m3, particularly from courier agents (I used to get the haul-Minerals from a Level 4 Admin agent, too).
- For mining missions, the volume isn't really that relevant, at least above Level 1 where 1080m3 might be somewhat surprising. What is more important, IMHO, is the duration of them, in particular the silly Gas Harvesting mission which not only requires 0.0-only equipment, but also a very very long time mining due to the small amounts mined per cycle.
- of course it doesn't mean that those without ? are 100% correct. Maybe 75%-80%. There's always room for correction if someone encounters new information.
- Volume for mining missions is important (for hauling purposes) and from it you can roughly calculate how long you will take to mine it, based on your equipments' mining volume. Including the mining time maybe a little unwieldy as it's based on the players' skills. Anyone who couldn't roughly calculate the above shouldn't be a miner and should stay away from mining missions :D I think we can include a Gas harvesting special note/annotation in the lines somewhere.