Editing Making ISK as an Explorer (section)

==Hauling by yourself==
The most ISK-efficient method to haul through low-sec or high-sec is to do it yourself – assuming you can do this without getting blown up!  This does have the downside of the necessary investment in hauling ships, skills and your time spent hauling.  The usual techniques for safe hauling apply:
* Scouting using tools like [http://eve-gatecheck.space/eve/ Eve Gatecamp Check], [https://zkillboard.com/ zKillboard], and [https://www.twitch.tv/uedamascout UedamaScout] to see where there may be gate camps.
* Using appropriate [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Travel_fits travel fits], e.g. passive tanks for smartbombing and suicide ganking.
* Approaching gates from alternative angles by bouncing off celestials. 
* Scouting for gate camps using perches within D-scan range of the gate.
* Use of [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Cloak_trick the MWD-cloak trick].
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKmn3rabMac Instadoc bookmarks] for the main trade hubs, especially Jita 4-4.

===Hauling by a Signal Cartel alt===
For a Signal Cartel alt, war-decs are a particular hazard.  The corporation has [[Policy:War_Dec_Eligibility|a deliberate policy of not avoiding war declarations]] and maintains a player-owned structure to enable that policy.  If another corporation has a war dec on Signal Cartel, their ships can engage Signal Cartel anywhere in high-sec space without intervention by Concord.  

In practice, during war decs, most of the risk is concentrated on the key high-sec hubs and the usual approach routes to those hubs.  So hauling to these hubs with a Signal Cartel alt while under a war dec needs to be done with particular care.  Please read our [[SCA:Guide_To_Surviving_War|Guide to Surviving War]] for more information.

===Hauling by an out-of-corp alt===
A viable alternative is to use an out-of-corp alt to haul through low- and high-sec.  Loot can be easily transferred at an NPC station using a contract.  The hauling alt can use an appropriate ship and fit:
* For example, an alpha alt with good shield tanking and navigation skills can use a sub-2s-align Sunesis with enough tank to survive the vast majority of smart-bomb gate camps.  
* An omega alt with appropriate skills can utilize more sophisticated methods such as a blockade runner with a covert ops cloak, with even more survivability.

The main downside of using a non-Signal-Cartel alt is the need to avoid Credo issues.  Assuming the Signal-Cartel alt and the out-of-corp alt are never logged in at the same time, the main issue is the flow of intel.  While intel flows from the out-of-corp alt to the Signal Cartel alt are not a problem, the opposite is not true.  Practically, this means one should not use the Signal Cartel alt as a scout for the out-of-corp alt.  More information regarding alts and the Credo is found [[Policy:Alts_and_the_Credo|here]].