Science & Industry

Everybody times the death of the ganker to how long it takes for Concord to show up...

For a single individual flying a T3 BC or destroyer, which is by far the most common thing, what gets them is the gate guns. This is significant because even in 0.5, you get six gate guns doing over 1000 dps... a destroyer lasts less than five seconds, a T3 battlecruiser less than ten. Most Tornados get off ONE shot, not two. This means that an industrial with shield extenders can survive gank attempts handily.

When I was still doing Jita runs in a Mammoth, I got to watch no fewer than seventeen Tornados blow up after completely failing to kill me... and the fact that I *saw* some of them blow means that it was gate guns that made the kill, not Concord. (Align time in a Mammoth is less than Concord response time in 0.5.) The one that finally got me was flying a Hurricane, which had enough tank to get off three volleys.

Use a cloaky t3 for small, highly valuable things like officer mods.

Frigates are small (takes longer to target), cheap, and FAST. The Magnate being a probe ship has a large cargo hold (moon probes are huge), and it being an Amarr ship means it has 3 low slots for cargo expanders (Heron = 1, Imicus = 2, Probe = 2).

One could even fit an Improved Cloaking Device to navigate through lowsec relatively easily, but that often isn't necessary.

If you two accounts, you can always try a couple tricks.

First if the double webber trick where you initiate warp with your hauling ship with one character and then you web him with your alt, catapulting your hauler into warp almost instantly. This is most often done with slow to warp freighters.

Second, you can follow along in a logistics ship (Osprey, Basilisk, etc.). If someone starts trying to gank you, start repping. Even if they turn on your repping ship and destroy it, chances are it'll be worth less than whatever you're carrying.

I think it is worth mentioning that you should also pay attention to the time of day you do certain things. I avoid moving expensive items on the weekends and during peak times. If I have stuff to move I'll get up a little early and move it while the systems are relatively dead. Use DOTLAN to figure this out.

I also use the contacts system to track potential gankers on my routes. For example if one guy is parked on the inbound side and then three more guys are parked on the outbound side I set them all to orange. If they are still on the gates when I leave I'll look at their corps and alliances to see if I need to set those to orange.

This works in my part of space, I'm sure in busy places it would be less workable.

Ive bought and moved battleship BPOs in a shuttle before. its a great ship. it warps before coming out of cloak and as long as you shepherd it all the way home you will be fine. Only danger is when you actually dock up


Other than that any cloaky will do

Or the king of everything

the Orca. you could move 1000 titan BPOs and no one would ever know