Mountains of Molehills (5 of 10)

Objectives

Transport 1 x Crates of Electronic Parts (40.0m³) to a station 5–8 jumps away*.

Mission Type: Courier

*Station is random, even from the same agent, so the number of jumps may change but should be around this number.

Overview

This is a very straightforward carrier mission. You’ll be given a small cargo of goods to take several jumps to a random destination for your agent. If you haven’t done a courier mission previously, they are very simple: Just put the cargo in one of your ships, fly to the designated station, start a conversation with your agent, and complete.

Courier missions are generally the least involved of the missions you’ll find from agents in EVE Online, unless your destination happens to be in low sec where your ship can get shot up. As long as your route is a safe one, it is totally possible to leave your ship on autopilot and let the computer do most of the work, only involving yourself when docked and needing to complete the missions or pick up new cargo. Advanced couriers will fly larger ships with expansive cargo holds and try to stock up on multiple missions at once.

The Venture mining frigate has a large enough cargo hold to transport the goods to your destination, and its relatively fast speed means an autopilot trip won’t take very long. Unfortunately, the Afterburner isn’t very useful for courier missions, since it requires manual activation.

If you’re going to be paying attention to the game and not using autopilot, it’s best to just make every jump manually to cut down on even more time. Only mods that provide passive effects, like the cargohold mod you get as a reward or other mods that reduce align time or increase base velocity, are useful for making autopilot trips shorter.

Rewards:

• + 0.1577 % corporation standing
• 1 x 1MN Afterburner I
• 1 x Expanded Cargohold I
• 53,000 Isk bonus (1 hours, 26 Minutes)