Full 320k, 2Bil shipment Mendori-GE not being accepted?

A little frankness here, because it can help you and everyone else. These observations are my own and no one else's in BLT. We don't exactly sit around and discuss things like this, or in fact discuss anything at all.

It's hard to get excited about 105m contracts when they fill the entire cargo hold. This makes sense, since depending on skills, fuel costs can severely cut into that. My skills are better now, but when I started it would have cost me 35m to make that 105m, and that's a pretty significant cut. Even now it's about 22m, and remember that cost is fixed no matter what the value of your cargo (i.e., larger contracts equal fewer expenses, percentage-wise). Splitting it into smaller contracts might help because smaller contracts give the haulers more flexibility and opportunity to fit your stuff in along with other loads.

Two days ago, there were 54 contracts in queue. When I logged off a few hours ago, there were 5. A lot of cargo has been hauled, but most of it was above yours in the queue. In fact, yours did not get to the top of the queue until this morning Eve time (right before I logged off for the night, of course).

Speaking of queue, I do try to haul from the top of it, at least taking the oldest contract and then fitting whatever else I can into my hold. Compelling reason can make me do otherwise. Today, when I had just about 30 minutes left to make one more trip before going AFK, the compelling reason was a pair of contracts that filled my hold for 294m. This is human nature. "I could take this one for 105m...or I could leave it for later tonight and take these two for 294m instead." If the profit is just a few million higher I'll take the older one first anyway (I'm too new to be so cynical as to take the most expensive contract every time, gimme a few months), but when the net profit is more than three times higher, I'll pay attention to that.

SIDE NOTE: Of course, I couldn't know until it was too late that one of these large fees was probably large as an apology for putting a populated container in it. Had I known, I'd have hauled yours anyway. That one is still waiting to be shipped because 30 minutes wasn't long enough for me to fly my contract alt around everywhere to make it happen.

TL;DR: there are lots of good reasons why it hasn't been shipped yet. Some of these are things you can't do anything about, some of them you can potentially help a little with.

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