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This is an old revision of CourierMissions made by SturmWolke on 2008-07-15 07:31:08.
Courier Missions
Level 1 Courier _
Jump distance (one-way): 0 - 5 (Destinations: maximum neighbouring constellation)Cargo amount:
- 0.1m3 - 100m3 (Courier/Trade)
- 1080m3 - 2000m3 (Mining)
- ? - 99.9m3 (Trade Storyline)
Level 2 Courier _
Jump distance (one-way): 0 - 5 (Destinations: maximum neighbouring constellation)Cargo amount:
- 0.1m3 - 300m3 (Courier/Trade)
- 2250m3 - 6000m3 (Mining)
- ? - 1500m3 (Trade Storyline)
Level 3 Courier _
Jump distance (one-way): 0 - 12 (Destinations: maximum neighbouring constellation - may cross inter-region border)Cargo amount:
- 0.1m3- 1000m3 (Courier/Trade)
- 9000m3 - 20000m3 (Mining)
- ? - 6000m3 (Trade Storyline)
Level 4 Courier _
Jump distance (one-way): 0 - 12 (Destinations: maximum neighbouring constellation - may cross inter-region border)Cargo amount:
- 0.1m3 - 7000m3 (Courier/Trade)
- ? - ? (Mining)
- 9600m3 - 40000m3 (Trade Storyline)
Recommended Ships For Courier Missions
Note: Values listed are for unmodified ships with no any cargo expanders fitted.
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:
- Iteron V (Gallente)
Tip
- 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 have the extra Low Slot.
- For Level 1 & Level 2 - use the best 300m3 frigates as a general couriers.
- For Level 3 & Level 4 - use any available industrials as general couriers (due to their 4.5 au/s warp speed).
- 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.