There are special mission places called Data Centers. These are locations in space where little outposts and ships float. You have to spot them visually unless you configure your overview to see them. Every faction has 3 places, their locations are in the link above.
The mission agents give either courier or trade missions. The couriers are the standard trivial go there, bring it there things, involving small items, so you can do them in a frigate. They give faction standing which decreases broker fees according to the formula: BrokerFee% = (1 – 0.05*BrokerRelationsLevel)/ exp(0.1 *FactionStanding + 0.04*CorporationStanding). Probably the formula is not entirely accurate, my character sheet shows 0.474% where the formula would say 0.445%, but we can accept it as a guideline. Since broker fee apply not only on sales like tax but also on unsuccessful orders, it's important to keep it low. The skill "Broker Relations" will bring us to 0.75%, no lower, so we need faction standing.
Don't underestimate this 0.3-0.4%! If I assume 10% profit rate on my ventures (I know that you have 9999999999%, no need to post a comment), then my 1.5B wealth was created moving 15B ISK. So even if I had no failed or modified auction (which I obviously had), I would have lost 45-60M in the first month of my life if I'd ignore it. This will just go up as I'll move more and more ISK. Also, keep in mind that elevating faction standing needs no ships or skills behind starter ones, you shall do it now and not when an Orca or Charon waits in the hangar.
OK, you did the courier missions. What about the rest? They are "trade" missions, you have to bring the mission agents 20 tags (3 for copper). These are items looted from various pirates. The bigger the pirates, the better the tag. Like with most items in EVE you can buy and sell them. All factions have different pirates, I list the Jita price of the Caldari ones:
The reason for the strange distribution of prices is that the lower tag missions are available to people with low standing, while the top tags are only for high standing people: much smaller demand. Of course you shall not buy any sell order for these tags, you have time, set up buy orders, that's much cheaper!
Since these tags are dropped randomly to missioners and random pirate killers who don't know the price, you can try to buy them regionwide and when enough are collected, transport them to the trade hub for sale. And then you end up like me: several tags in low-sec stations, holding my capital until I have a blockade runner.
Business report: Buy+Sell+Cash = 1.42B (0.49B gifts)
The mission agents give either courier or trade missions. The couriers are the standard trivial go there, bring it there things, involving small items, so you can do them in a frigate. They give faction standing which decreases broker fees according to the formula: BrokerFee% = (1 – 0.05*BrokerRelationsLevel)/ exp(0.1 *FactionStanding + 0.04*CorporationStanding). Probably the formula is not entirely accurate, my character sheet shows 0.474% where the formula would say 0.445%, but we can accept it as a guideline. Since broker fee apply not only on sales like tax but also on unsuccessful orders, it's important to keep it low. The skill "Broker Relations" will bring us to 0.75%, no lower, so we need faction standing.
Don't underestimate this 0.3-0.4%! If I assume 10% profit rate on my ventures (I know that you have 9999999999%, no need to post a comment), then my 1.5B wealth was created moving 15B ISK. So even if I had no failed or modified auction (which I obviously had), I would have lost 45-60M in the first month of my life if I'd ignore it. This will just go up as I'll move more and more ISK. Also, keep in mind that elevating faction standing needs no ships or skills behind starter ones, you shall do it now and not when an Orca or Charon waits in the hangar.
OK, you did the courier missions. What about the rest? They are "trade" missions, you have to bring the mission agents 20 tags (3 for copper). These are items looted from various pirates. The bigger the pirates, the better the tag. Like with most items in EVE you can buy and sell them. All factions have different pirates, I list the Jita price of the Caldari ones:
- Copper tag: 0.7M
- Bronze tag: 4.5M
- Silver tag: 1M
- Brass tag: 12M
- Palladium tag: 0.05M
- Gold tag: 0.7M
- Electrum tag: 0.02M
- Crystal tag: 0.03M
- Platinum tag: 1.3M
- Diamond tag: 0.15M
The reason for the strange distribution of prices is that the lower tag missions are available to people with low standing, while the top tags are only for high standing people: much smaller demand. Of course you shall not buy any sell order for these tags, you have time, set up buy orders, that's much cheaper!
Since these tags are dropped randomly to missioners and random pirate killers who don't know the price, you can try to buy them regionwide and when enough are collected, transport them to the trade hub for sale. And then you end up like me: several tags in low-sec stations, holding my capital until I have a blockade runner.
Business report: Buy+Sell+Cash = 1.42B (0.49B gifts)
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