Behavior and Ethics

The corporations of the Red Frog Alliance have excellent reputations in New Eden. While in general, you can do whatever you like in Eve, there are some activities that will damage our reputation that we will not tolerate.

• Theft, including ripping off corp members (both other Frogs and your regular corpies), strangers and our customers. With respect to Red Frog customers, this includes stealing under-valued cargo (where the value of the cargo exceeds the collateral value), and it includes failing to return excess rewards caused by their typos.
• Piracy and other non-sanctioned PVP, including ganking other ships of any kind. If it would get Crimewatch to flag you or CONCORD to kill you, don't do it.
• Scamming intended as any kind of money-making scam, including contract scams, bait and switch, fake lotteries, ISK doubling schemes, RMT, and so on. There's plenty of that kind of thing in New Eden, but the Red Frog Alliance does not participate or allow its members to participate in scams of any kind.
• Ninja salvaging, ripping off or shooting yellow wrecks you may happen upon in space. Obviously you're welcome to loot and salvage white and blue wrecks, but again, if Crimewatch would flag you, don't do it.
• Trash talk of any kind in local directed to anybody, even to freighter ganking squads. Red Frog Alliance members are professional haulers, and we act with courtesy and professionalism at all times, even to folks we set to -10. Harassing gank operations in Uedama is unprofessional and endangers every Red Frog freighter; don't do it.

Prerequisites for Pilots

You must have 2 separate omega accounts: one for your Freighter Alt and one for your Contract Alt. Having both characters on a single EVE account is not sufficient.

In order to join you will also need:

• 1 billion isk for contract collateral (1.5 billion or more recommended);
• 0.0 or higher security status;
• faction standing that allows you into any high-sec system;
• a freighter;
• the Freighter Alt need to have Hull Upgrades trained at least to level 2;
• the Freighter Alt needs to be able to hold 845k m3 with just 2 expander, so it'll need:
  • Caldari Freighter Skill trained to at least level 3
  • or any other racial Freighter Skill trained to at least level 4
• patience, because freighters are sloooooooooooooow.

Channel More Profit

Our in-game recruiting channel is the point of entry for our applicants and its called More Profit (with the 2 periods). You're welcome to ask questions there that are not covered by this document. It's common for Red Frog Freight pilots to hang out there and offer the benefit of our experience as a space trucker.

RF Freight and Black Frog are our in-game customer service channels. We respectfully request that you please keep recruiting conversations to More Profit, for the benefit of our customers who have questions about their contracts.

However, please be aware that only our recruiting team has access to your personal information, and only they can answer specific questions unique to your application. Contacts are always listed in the MOTD of channel More Profit, so if your question is specific to you about an application you've already filed, please get in touch via Evemail.

How to Apply

Once you meet the Prerequisites for Pilots and you're ready to apply, use https://red-frog.org/apply.

Status on the current pile of applications is always posted to the MOTD of channel "More Profit", so please check there to see how long your wait might be.

Wait Times

Once you apply, your information is placed in a queue of applications. Background checks are performed, missing information is requested, and eventually, a confirmation mail will be sent through Evemail notifying you that you've been verified.

Wait time can varies from a few weeks to several months, depending on the number of pilots who want to join and the size of our contract queue. The Red Frog Freight goal is that no contract should be more than 24 hours old before someone accepts it. When our queue begins to routinely go over 24 hours, we bring in more pilots. And while we don't want our customers waiting too long, we want our existing pilots to make money, so we don't want so many pilots that the queue disappears completely. So we try to manage the number of pilots to be fair both to our customers and our pilots.

Current queue

This list displays your place in the recruitment queue.

If your name is not on the list, just wait patiently, please do NOT re-apply. We receive multiple applications per day and it will take time, but we will get to you.

You will receive your application number only after one of our recruiters has looked at it, you will be notified via in-game evemail.

Join mailing list Frog Candidates - we will send there important recruitment information. Additionally to your Contract Alt and Freighter pilot, you can also join on your usual main characters.

Money and Taxes

The minimum reward is 6 million ISK for a single jump contract. The maximum contract length is around 75 (the longest possible run in contiguous hisec space), and is almost 80 million ISK. Our average contract length is about 20 jumps, and there are many that are 40 or more. Rewards of 25 million ISK per run are common.

How much you earn in a month depends entirely on you. Some pilots run fewer than 20 contracts a month (the minimum is one contract per month), and their rewards are quite modest. Some pilots run hundreds of contracts and take in excess of 10 billion ISK. The money is there if you want it!

The corporation charges a tax (typically between 5% and 15%) on rewards, and these funds go to a mandatory insurance program that covers most of the cost of your freighter and collateral if you get ganked, if certain conditions are met. Full details will be provided to you when you join Red Frog Freight, but you should be aware that you will be asked to prepay into the insurance fund upon joining. This prepayment will be applied via ESi and your payment credit visible to you within an hour of payment. The pre-payment amount equals to 10 million ISK.

We also offer an internal incentive system that can help pay your insurance premium, so if you prioritize the right contracts, your insurance can be free!

Cargo and collateral

Our maximum cargo volume is 845,000 m3 with a maximum of 1.5 billion ISK in collateral. The 845,000 m3 limitation is based upon a “sweet spot” that corresponds to the various freighters at racial Freighter skill levels III and IV. The 1.5 billion ISK collateral level is to reduce the chance of ganks, making away from keyboard (AFK) travel relatively safe.

In order to achieve the required capacity pilot must be able to fit no more than 2 Expanded Cargohold II into the low slots.

It is possible to achieve the RFF's required cargo size by having lower than required skills and fitting three expanded cargoholds. However for our safety standards fitting a third expander is not acceptable because of the reduced hull points, that is why we require the skill levels explained above in order to be able to join RFF.

Cargo spaca in m³:

Black Frog and Purple Frog

Recruiting into Black Frog Logistics and Purple Frog Transport is done from within Red Frog Freight. In short, you must be a Red Frog Freight pilot in good standing to be eligible to join Black or Purple Frog.

Once you're accepted into Red Frog, we will provide more information on how you can earn your way into Black or Purple, but everybody starts in Red.

Freighter types

All freighters -- Fenrir, Obelisk, Providence and Charon -- are acceptable for use in Red Frog, so it's up to you.

If you're training an alt specifically to fly in Red Frog Freight, you may wonder which you should select.

• Fenrir: the smallest of the freighters, and the longest to train for (by about a week), the Fenrir is also the fastest at sub-warp speeds. Most Frogs fly a Fenrir, and a service available to help you get to Rush contracts faster (thereby earning more isk) is only available if you fly a Fenrir. If in doubt, we suggest starting here.
• Charon: has the biggest cargo hold, the Charon is slowest at sub-warp speeds, but the extra capacity can sometimes help you accommodate extra cargo (within the limits of Red Frog's recommended flying practices).
• Obelisk: while it's far from being gank proof, it's the tankiest of all when fitted with reinforced bulkheads thanks to his high base hull HP.
• Providence: an aesthetically-pleasing ship that is middle of the road in terms of performance, it's specialization is armor tanking when fitted with armor plates.

Many Red Frog pilots choose the Fenrir, but some pilots fly every freighter, and all freighters are acceptable. Which you choose will really depend on your preferences.

Freighter training

As you wait to be accepted into Red Frog, you should consider adding the following useful skills you may have overlooked: