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Implants for low-sec pickup
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Fozzy Dorsai
Friendly but Irritating
#1 - 2012-04-04 11:51:51 UTC
I make most of my isk through intraregional trading. I'm about a month or two away from having a cloaked Viator so have been sticking with hi-sec goods. Once I have the viator I plan on going region-wide and dipping down into low-sec to pickup stuff. As I'll be using a cheaper clone when I head down there, I'll be starting from scratch with implants. Given that eventually I'll get ganked, but that I'd like that to be delayed as long as practical, what +3 implants would aid me in survival.
Lunkwill Khashour
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-04-04 18:14:37 UTC
Don't fit implants. It's cheaper to die that way. Nomads are want you want though.
Ireland VonVicious
Vicious Trading Company
#3 - 2012-04-04 20:46:12 UTC
Use the implants that help your current remap and skill training only in the 1-5's. Buy some cheap speed hardwirings.
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#4 - 2012-04-04 20:47:27 UTC
In low sec, pods aren't really at risk. They align instantly, so just spam warp if your ship is going down and you'll get out. The only exception is smartbombing camps -- you might get unlucky and lose a pod there.

In general, you want to reduce your align time (increase your agility) to travel more safely. However, ships with covops cloaks have near impunity in low. Your biggest risk is at undock, but a few undock bookmarks go a long way towards helping out there too.
Ford Chicago
Ziz Zag Ziggurat
#5 - 2012-04-07 20:06:30 UTC
I've never been caught in low-sec in a viator. cloak + mwd will get you through nearly any gatecamp. pods are only at risk if you fly through a smartbombing battleship on a gate. unless you regularly fly through rancer, this has an extremely low probability of ever happening. null sec has different rules as bubble camps give the hostiles more time to decloak you.

while nomads might help your survival, for me they wouldn't be worth the cost vs risk. i wouldn't hesitate to fly into low-sec with +5s in a viator if i was just looking to move some goods.