Ships & Modules

Hello all

my main character has a total SP of 40 million
and i own a prorator and an impel.

i am wondering whats the best possible plan of hauling stuff from lowsec stations to highsec.
and i am talking about doing this SOLO. ^^

ok i know there is no bulletproof plan and that at some point i will be ganked. its how it goes.
what i am seeking is the best idea for doing this, minimizing the risk as possible or at least
be able to escape if i face one lonely guy in lowsec.

the difficult part is undocking. coz since i will be solo, i wont know if someone waits for me
outside. so the options to me seem like :

(a) prorator with the cloak and probably an ecm burst. if **** happens i have to warp say 100km
from the sun, wait for the gun gates to cool off because of my response to the attack then warp
to the gate and out. drawback : one pilot alone could pop me before i ecm him and free myself
from the warp disruption.

(b) impel with a fit that gives about 120 ehp. i undock, dont give a damn, warp to gate as if there
is noone outside. drawback : i will be damn too slow and i dont know how much attack i can stand.

any ideas and suggestions are more than welcome.

and i repeat, i play long enough to know there is no perfect plan. if i get attacked by a small fleet
i am dead in both ships anyway. i am seeking for the more wise way of doing this solo.

thx

fly safe all

Or you skill onto prowler and fit an Probe Launcher to look onto Gates from far away.

Undocking, yes make an insta as Ahrieman says.
Or undock in a blazing fast inty to see the coast is clear before you redock and come out in your indy.

4x Warp core stabbed prorator is going to be very very hard to stop in low sec barring a very lucky and well-prepared fleet.

alright

so i need to make another char, train her for cloak and watch my butt.
since i cant afford a second account, i will have to use trials...

and since everyone yelled "prorator" i suppose its the way to go.

thank you all guyz!
u've been really helpful

fly safe

It doesnt help against a SeBo-Boostet HIC with script. And as soon a BS locked you up.... well, lets say there plenty of chances you can get popped.

Expierence say, that cloaky Hauler do it 99% through a Gate-Camp within low-sec. And with it you can even take a break at the route, to do something else.

Sounds like you do not know how to undock safely. When you undock you are invulnerable (i.e. not targetable) until your session timer (was 30 seconds, maybe is 15 seconds now) runs down.

Any actions that you do during that timer make you vulnerable to being targetted again. The only action that you can do without loosing your invulnerability is stop the ship.

An insta-undock bookmark is one that is directly in front of the station, at least 150km ahead in a straight line. You make one by undocking, then flying forwards for more than 150km, then bookmarking that spot.

When you undock, you are already aligned to the bookmark so you undock, then warp to it straight away. You will warp instantly without needing to align, and keep your invulnerability.

Good point. I took a break from the game and haven't played docking games too long so I forgot quite a few mechanics...
It should be relatively safe enough just to directly undock in your hauler.

Do note though that some stations are "kick-out" stations and spit you out far from the docking.
Still you should be able to dock in 30 sec.
However, there is a "remote" chance people could bump you away from docking and web you.
I mention this just for completeness, not that it is likely.

Also, if you only have a small amount to haul and are not risking too much in cargo, a cheap alternative hauler is a catalyst with a proto cloak and the mwd-cloak-warp trick.
Don't be messing up that mwd-cloak-warp sequence though!

Use a third party service like Black Frog Logistics. Use the time you would have spent doing a boring logistics run to make some isk.

I have flown a transport in losec and null for two years so far, w/o losing a ship, yet. Two fits. (a) an agility fit with agility rigs for dangerous sectors, this means nullsec; (b) a "cargo capacity" fit for less active sectors, with cargo extender rigs. In losec, no need to use the agility fit at all.

Fitting on both includes 2 x Dread Gurista non-racial ECM's in mids. 7-8 mil isk at Jita. Had to use them once to escape an interceptor in Querious. They worked quickly. Do not forget overheat mechanic.

Best protection is good tactics. Use starmap to find possible gatecamps & excessive activitty. Use Instaundocks. In a dangerous pirate system, consider scouting/undocking w/ an alt before your main; take the time to prepare gatesafes & stationsafes in any region you frequent regularly, etc.

For nullsec, learn the "mwd/cloak trick", explained elsewhere in the forums.

It takes skill and diligence to survive, which makes it fun - if you screw up, you blow up.

WEll heres my small advice, use prorator, it aligns fast and getse the cov ops cloak which is rather need to have.

Fit mwd on that prora and atleast one inertia stab. While some will say that inertia stab makes you big and lockable faster, i'll say the extra acceleration and align speed are very much worth it. In a n industrial you never should be targetable, and you'll minimize the chances of being uncloaked by people attempting to fly to ur probable location with mwd and fast acceleration.

Anywho the faster you warp off a situation the better and the faster you align -> the faster you warp :) and usually anyone jumping after you has no chance of catching/uncloaking you on the otherside. This only happens at some propability in a big gate camp and i've yet to be caught by any of them.

The bm's people have talked about are very much needed, cloaking and bm's are pretty much the bread and butter for hauling stuff in low sec. If you don't know how to make a bm, hop in an inty and mwd to 250-500km (your choice, i'd go with off grid spot, some people are just too lazy) from the station, in the direction you undock (just press mwd a few after undocking). Only thing here you need to watch for is that the station doesn't at teh bm creation flight push you too off fromthe axis, if it does, dock and repeat till you get a good direction.