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EVE Courier - Mission Bot for EVE Online

There are plenty of ways to make EVE Online ISK and one of the first available for novice methods is a Courier Agent Run. Courier mission is a contract to transport cargo from one station to another and may be taken from an agent of distribution division (courier agent) in the most of stations. Upon mission completion player receives reward in the form of ISKs, Loyalty Points (LP) and Standing to the agent and to corporation of the agent. Loyalty points may be spent to purchase faction items, implants, rare skillbooks (like distribution connections) in loyalty point store. Access to loyalty point store is available from station services. Standing increase is a long run investment to your character. Advantages of higher standing includes taxless refining, reduced fees to setup market orders, access to jump clone facilities and possibility to install POS (Player Owned Structure) in high security space.

Courier mission run takes a lot of time. If first level agents ask to transport items from one station to another in the same constellation, then higher level missions require a lot of traveling including visits to several regions. To level faction standing you need to run storyline missions and each storyline mission is given upon completion of 16 of regular missions. If you want to install POS in high security system, you have to level corporation standing of your corporation till 5 or above. This is extremely tedious task and only a few people complete this task manually. EVE Courier bot may level your corporation and faction standings automatically and must have if you are planning to trade, mine or manufacture T2 ships or equipment using your own POS in empire.

Overview:

EVE Courier Bot Features

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ourier bot finds and travels to multiple agents of 1-4 levels of Distribution Division and completes courier missions taken from these agents. Only high security travels allowed. If courier mission requires to travel to low security system, bot declines the mission in order to avoid possible ship loss. EVE Courier may be used with any skill level of the character including trial account users. Bot may be used with any type of a ship with cargohold volume enough to accept at least one mission. Cargohold free space limits the number of missions bot may take at the same time. It is recommended to use ships with maximal possible cargohold volume. Courier bot is capable to make several courier missions at ones, it calculates optimal route to visit new agents, pick-up and drop-off locations. The more missions bot runs at the same time, the less time bot spends for one mission. Bot collects an information about mission during agent conversation stage and attempts to optimize route in order to complete missions with higher time bonus rewards faster. Courier bot uses TSPP (travelling salesman problem with profit) optimization. Bot gathers statistics about taken or cancelled missions, compares missions parameters and, as soon as bots experience increases, may redraw mission from the same agent and attempt to take mission with better profit. This increases an efficiency of the bot and, as a rule, bot can complete at least 6 missions of 4 level agents per hour. Our courier bot has no analogues.

Preliminary tests show that courier bot income may be at least 5.6kk ISK / hour (this includes maximal LP to ISK conversion rates, top skilled character running 4 level missions and storyline mission rewards). Courier bot may be used in multiclient mode with any combinations (e.g. two couriers or courier + miner). Traditionally, as any product of MacroLab, courier bot has a Planetary Interaction (PI) addon to update extractor control unit programs on planets. Therefore courier bot income may be even higher. Courier bot may be used as a secondary bot to level standing remotely using fleet standing and reward sharing.

The main advantage of the courier bot is that it does not require continious skill leveling, long time/lot of ISKs to prepare courier bot run. Courier bot does not consume any resourses (mining crystals, drones, new ships after suicide ganks etc.) and recommended to use if you have no time to play eve or just want to level skills and dont bother with anything else. Bot may accept and complete courier and trade storyline missions automatically. If you dont run encounter storyline missions manually (which is 5-x more effective way to level faction standing), bot will finish leveling of faction standing in about 3-4 weeks to be able to accept 4 level missions. Approximately the same time is required to level skills for Iteron V - the best industrial ship to run 4 level missions. Courier bot does not attact attention of other players as it travels from system to system in unpredictable manner.

Information For Novices

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here are plenty of information about courier missions in the Internet. Here we will summarize an information about courier missions, skills and equipment for new players who want to try courier bot. There are 3 topics you shold know to run the bot:


1. Information about standing:
Courier mission running increases your standings and there are 3 types of standings present:
  • Personal standing - your standing you have with particular agent. The better personal standing you have with agent, the better missions agent offers. This statement is not confirmed in the case of courier agents, but became obvious if you run encounter missions and level personal reputation to the agent above 8. Personal standing may drop if you cancel many missions of the same agent in short time. If personal standing to the agent became lower then corporation standing to the corporation of the agent, the agent became unavailable and you need to finish missions of other agents of the same corporation in order to make the agent available again. This is not the case if you use courier bot as it rarely cancels any missions.
  • Corporation standing - your standing you have with corporations. Corporation standing increases when you complete regular or storyline missions for agents of the corporation. Corporate standing opens an access to agents of the same corporation.
  • Faction standing - your standing you have with faction. Each corporation belongs to some faction and there are a few factions available in the game. Some factions have plenty of courier agents in high security systems (Caldari, Amarr, Gallente or Minmatar), some factions have only a few agents (e.g. Systers Of EVE) in high sec and some factions (e.g. Mordu's Legion) located in zeroes and not used with courier bot. Faction standing increases when you complete storyline missions. Each storyline mission is given after completion of 16 of regular missions of the same level. Alternatively you may run missions for COSMOS agents and level faction standing, but each COSMOS agent gives just one mission and to finish mission you need special items. Faction standing opens access to all agents of all corporations of the same faction. Courier bot was developed to run miltiple missions of multiple agents at ones, therefore faction standing increase is a requirement to run higher level missions.
Higher corporation and faction standing offers valuable possibilities to the player:
  • Reduced refining fees. You give about 5% of your minerals during refining if you have no standing with the corporation or the station where you perform refining. If corporation or faction standing higher then 6.67, refining fee is absent.
  • Reduced brokers fee. Brokers fee is applied when you install market order and may be calculated using empiric formula:

    Broker Fee(%) = (1 - 0.05 * Broker Relations Skill) / 2^(0.14 * Faction Standing + 0.06 * Corporation Standing)

    If your broker relations skill is maximal brokers fee may be calculated by:

    Broker Fee(%) = 0.75 / 2^(0.14 * Faction Standing + 0.06 * Corporation Standing)

    Faction standing is more important to reduce brokers fee then corporate standing. Minimal possible brokers fee is 0.18%.
  • If you corporate standing is more then 8 you can install jump clones at stations of the corporation.
  • If you corporation has faction standing more then 5, you can install POS in the systems with security level 0.5, systems with security level 0.6 and 0.7 may be used if your corporation has faction standing 6 or 7 correspondingly. Faction standing of your corporation is calculated as an average faction standing of members of your corporation without connections skill bonuses.

2. Types of ships used with courier bot and skills required to use ships

Maximal cargo volume, required to transport during courier mission, depends on the mission level. 1st level courier agents may ask to transport as much as 300 m3, 2nd level - 420 m3, 3rd level - 3000 m3 and 4th level up to 7200 m3. Storyline courier missions may require even more space (up to 40000m3 @ 4 lvl). First level missions may be run with frigate with cargohold volume more then 300m3. Each main faction has such frigate (Amarr - Magnate, Caldari - Heron, Gallente - Imicus, Minmatar - Probe). Additionaly you may increase cargohold volume with expanded cargohold II and run 2nd level missions. If you plan to do 3rd and 4th level courier missions, you will need paid account to learn industrial ships. 4 level missions will additionally require to install Medium Сargohold Optimisation I or II rigs. A few skils required to run courier bot: frigate of particular race till 3 to start learning industrial ships, race industrial ship may be learned till 3. Additionally to install rigs you need Mechanic till 3, Jury Rigging of 3rd level and Astronautics Rigging 1. To fit Expanded Cargohold II you need Hull Upgrades 2.

3. Skills required to increase efficiency of the bot
There are 4 skills required to learn in Social group of skills. "Social" skill may help to increase standing faster and is a requirement for other skills in social group. "Social" skill increases standing bonuses for comletion of the mission by 5% per level. Level Social skill till 3. Second skill you need is "Connections" - adds static standing grow by 4% per skill level. Level it till 3. This will add +12% standing grow and open 2nd level agents as soon as you finish just one storyline mission of the first level. Alternatively you may complete one COSMOS agent mission. If you plan to do 4 lvl missions you may not level Connections anymore. By the time you get Iteron V (the best industrial ship for 4 lvl missions) you will have faction standing of 5 without Connections skill bonuses. This takes 3-4 weeks if you dont run all storyline missions, including encounter missions and missions in low sec systems manually.
Another two skills recommended to level are Negotiation till 3, Trade till 3 as a prerequisite to Distribution Connections. Distribution Connections till 3 or 4. Skillbook for Distribution Connections is available in LP store. You need to buy it from players for about 20m in order to save time. Negotiation will add 5% to mission ISK reward for each level. Distribution Connections will add 10% to Loyalty Points reward for each level.

Standing Levelling

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action Standing - Define "home station" in courier bot settings. This will also define faction you level standing for. Make sure you have selected correct station, e.g. dont select Amarr station in Caldari space. To level faction standing you dont need to use 1st level agents. To start using second level agents you need to complete 16 of regular missions of the first level, make storyline mission and level Connections till 3. This will increase your faction standing above 1 and this is enough to run second level agents. Select station with plenty of available agents nearby. You may use agent finder available in people and places to look how much agents are close to home station. As soon as your faction standing increases till 3 you may switch to 3rd level agents. 4th level agents will require faction standing of 5. 5th level courier agents do not exist. You may complete trade and courier storyline missions automatically, but to complete trade missions you need ores in home station. 1st level storyline trade mission will need Veldspar (999 or 100m3) per each mission, 2nd level will require Scordite (1665 or 250m3), 3rd level - Omber (10000 or 6000 m3) and 4th level will use Kernite (8000 or 9600m3).

Although corporation standing may be increased by grinding of multiple regular courier missions, it is not effective way as when you complete storyline missions from storyline agents of this corporation. One storyline encounter mission of 4 level may increase corporation standing by 25%! Main idea of the method of corporation standing leveling using courier bot is to finish as much as possible storyline missions of the corporation. Select home station with storyline agent of required corporation. In order to find such station, you may open agent finder (e.g. from people and places, agents tab) and filter agents by type. Run first and second level missions as much as possible but do not accept any storyline missions yet. Each storyline agent may offer just one storyline mission at a time. If nearest agent already offered some mission, then next nearest agent is used. In result you will block all nearest agents with low level storyline missions fast. Go through all storyline missions and decline (or complete) those missions which belong to agents of the corporation we need to level standing for. If you start bot now, you will see that storyline agents of our corporation start to offer new storyline missions because they are nearest and not offered any mission yet. If you do storyline missions manually, you may find latest offered missions of you sort missions by expiration time. You can also make storyline missions of particular corporation using bot function, just enable to level corp standing, select home station which belong to required corporation and bot will do the rest. It is necessary to mention that bot is making regular courier missions for all corporations and not for some particular corporation. You still need faction standing to run higher level agents.


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