EVE General Discussion

although the training requirements are a pain; orca.

unscannable cargo hold that drops nothing when suicided with 200k ehp. failing that, if you're looking at a blockade runner then they're a nice option. after you practice a bit you can click warp and cloak [in that order] and be cloaked up before any one can lock you.

if all of the above doesn't sound appealing; courier contracts. sure it takes a bit of time, costs a bit of isk, but other people take the risk and worry and you can sit around doing whatever you want in the mean time. if the person accepting the contract goes pop, you get the collateral and you've only lost a bit of time waiting for them to fail the contract.

istabs are the Devil. Help you align faster, also helps the enemy lock you faster. Get nanofibers.
Don't use shield extenders (same problem as above); pick resistance mods instead.
Use your cloak immediately after you've jumped; uncloak just before you hit the next gate (practice a bit to be uncloaked and ready to jump as you hit the gate, but not before).
Don't take the shortest route.

My alt runs a viator around hisec when I'm moving things. It's damn near impossible to get caught in a blockade runner in hisec when jumping gates (undocks are more risky, but set up insta-undocks on the main systems you use and you're fine)

So many valuable tips, thank you very very much.

How much tank is enough to be reasonably defended with a battleship in high sec for smaller high valuable cargo, or is this even an option? Is having dual 1600mm , dual LARs, DC II and some caps for energy on a Navy Dominix good enough to keep you alive while you AB it back to the gate in High Sec?

Cloak first!!!!!!!

MWD is still available for a second after and blows up your sig by 500%

Viator is fine for medium sized loads

go for mods/rigs enhancing your inertia (time you need to get into warp depends on it) rather than cargo extension.

The thing about blockade runners is that if you have to rely on their tank, you've already largely failed.

Its first line of defence is its cloak — they can't target you for attacks or scans if you're not on the overview, and that should only happen for a split second. The second line of defence is the inherent agility (which can be further enhanced) — if they try to get you decloaked, you are no longer there, and if something keeps the cloak from working, you're out of there ASAP.

The tank is to protect against the (veeeeeery) occasional smartbomb camp you might land in, which is also why you might want to uncloak manually at the end of each warp — so you can turn any hardeners on. But even without any kind of tank active, a BR should be able to survive four full volleys of smart bombs (which will require multiple ships to deliver). The same tank should also be enough to keep you safe from an alpha volley or so (and afer the first one, you should be long gone), but again, if it has come to that, something has already gone horribly horribly wrong…

…of course, you can tank the crap out of them — a Crane will quite happily put up some 50k EHP, but as others have pointed out, this will come at the cost of that second line of defence. Either you're easier to lock and hit (sig bloat from a shield tank) or you're slower to get into warp (mass bloat from armour tank), so it's up to you to determine whether it'll be worth it.

Lose the armour-reppers for 2 EANM IIs, you want buffer + resists to survive an alpha-gank. Those reppers will never cycle fast enough to save you.

Your lows (standard Domi = 6 lo slots, IIRC?) should be:

DCU II
2x 1600mm plates
2x EANM II
1x Explosive energised plating

Mids:

Put an MWD in

Hi:

Improved Cloaking Device II

If that buffer isn't enough, then well, you would have died regardless, probably.

Carry your "normal" fit for PvE or whatever plus cargo in your hold till you get where you're going, and refit there.

And, learn the Cloak/MWD maneouvre.

The lesson being of course to use a bookmark ~300 km above/below the station instead of warping directly to the station.