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Deep space transport use?
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Amuneti Jones
Small-Arms Fire
#1 - 2013-04-19 11:43:56 UTC
I am trying to wrap my head around the Deep Space Transport's use.

Is it used for Highsec Logistics, Lowsec Logistics, Nullsec Logistics or Wormhole Logistics?

I know how they function, I know the rep bonus is terrible, it roughly can tank out about 50k, aligns terribly (roughly 10 second warp). Are they used and what for?
Tul Breetai
Impromptu Asset Requisition
#2 - 2013-04-19 11:59:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Tul Breetai
Well, I use my Impel because it looks cooler than the bestower and can get just under 40k m3 cargo. That's absolutely it.

EDIT: To clarify, it never leaves hisec.

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Natalia Abre-Kai
#3 - 2013-04-19 13:43:23 UTC
Null sec PI Big smile
Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
#4 - 2013-04-19 15:08:16 UTC
Amuneti Jones wrote:
I am trying to wrap my head around the Deep Space Transport's use.

Is it used for Highsec Logistics, Lowsec Logistics, Nullsec Logistics or Wormhole Logistics?

I know how they function, I know the rep bonus is terrible, it roughly can tank out about 50k, aligns terribly (roughly 10 second warp). Are they used and what for?


-Hauling through lowsec where cloak + MWD is likely to be sufficient for safety and you need to haul ~30k m3, or
-hauling in hisec when suicide gankers are afoot
-Using the warp strength bonus to ignore FW station campers
Mocam
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-04-19 15:22:09 UTC
The DST isn't very useful outside of highsec unless you fit more warp core stabs on it.

Faction scrams can get 3 points strength and a HIC will nail you fast going infini-point while a bubble will also mess your day up out towards nullsec. They align and fly like other large industrials so aren't agile enough in most situations

For highsec use, it's got much better tank so is harder to gank than a stock industrial, while still having the hauling capacity. That can make them useful for some higher end/more valuable transport.

The blockade runners do have good value across space due to their ability to cloak, align times and such. They're a more of a nimble ship than the DST's.
Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
#6 - 2013-04-19 19:37:08 UTC
DST's have there use. Max cargo fit they get more cargo than their T1 counter parts, and a much better tank. Not that they are not still easy to kill, but at least, unlike their T1 counter parts, if fit right, they take more than a Catalyst to pop them.

in addition the higher fitting stats make it very easy to fit one with a cloak and 10 MWD even with maxed out cargo. Even in null sec the Cloak MWD trick can get you around fairly safely. Not quite as good as a blockade runner for safe travel, but can hold up to 4 times as much. So a pretty decent tradeoff.
Ines Tegator
Serious Business Inc. Ltd. LLC. etc.
#7 - 2013-04-19 20:50:45 UTC
Gank resistant highsec hauler.

They are in dreadful need of a rebalance - a complete new role, in fact- and have been for a long time. I'm glad to see industrials on the tiericide list, since these might get some attention once that's done.

Overhaul Dscan!
Eram Fidard
Doomheim
#8 - 2013-04-21 02:01:57 UTC
between instas, 0-docks, and mwd-cloak on gates, DST is the safest 30k+m3 hauler, hisec or low

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Richenda Morgan
Doomheim
#9 - 2013-04-23 17:46:21 UTC
Well one thing they can do with the Blockade Runners is to put 2 high slots on all of them like they did with the Prowler. The Blockade Runners are usable for Black Ops operations as they can carry the fuel needed for the BLOPS ships, however CCP made only the prowler viable for this use with the 2 high slots(1 for the cloak one for the covops cyno) Would like to see a change done with all the Blockade Runners holding 2 high slots to make them more usable especially in 0.0 space operations.
sabre906
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-04-23 18:01:12 UTC
Give DST covops.