Ships & Modules

The blockade runner is the transport ship that uses the cov ops cloak, so prowler, prorator, viator and crane. It tells you they are blockade runners intheir description.

Blockade runners are blockade runners. What's not to get?

While our stealthy haulers becoming more stealthy is cool...

I do wonder how much of an explosion of tears there will be when it's implemented. The stealthy haulers are, after all, fragile, reliant on speed and agility and difficult to tank. These factors make them relatively cheap to gank (certainly compared to an Orca) - I suspect we'll see a lot of wrecks around Jita undock

Blockade Runners in Empire are often used for high value cargo anyway and their high skill requirements and low payoff (hauler [5] only gives you freighters and T2 haulers) probably means that the majority of them operating exclusively in Empire have been bought specifically for that purpose... So in the absence of any indication that they're carrying anything there's a 50/50 chance that they're on their loaded run and a good chance that if they're loaded it'll be with something valuable - which might well be worth a destroyer or two.

Busy gates or stations where cloaking is difficult, the sig increase or agility decrease which fitting a buffer tank which are counter to the low sig, high agility paradigm of the ship and the impracticality of fitting active modules (hardeners, DCs...etc) on a cloaking ship... All those datacores, all that ferrogel - and the crimewatch changes which would allow players to take down some of the ganking ships required for a freighter or Orca have almost no impact on a couple of desi's...

so, which ones are those?

undock bookmark.
cloak.
???
profit.

Not sure why they needed to do this given the blocade runner if used right cant be locked...

Yup. Bad idea (except for gankers).

They are normally pretty hard to catch, but even the best pilot will screw up in them once in a thousand times.

They used to be ignored as they were so hard to catch in space. But now there will most likely be a much more concerted effort to pop them now thay they 'may or may not' have valuable cargo.

especially with the presence of Tier 3 BCs, they are about the worst, least defensible ships in the game.

Another change not really thought through. It was an 'easy fix' for CCP instead of really looking at the mechanics...much less the mechanics of T2 Transport ships that need re-balancing.

EDIT: at least the Orca needed coordination and a plan to actually explode in high sec. These things are like balloons. Oh well, if I get popped in mine, all they'll get is P1 PI junk.

Can CONCORD still scan blockade runner? I mean custom office.

i hope concord can't scan... i've got some hummm sugar to haul

You can tank it up to 40k EHP or so. And go AFK on autopilot with it with no fear of being scanned.