Missions & Complexes

It would take about 6 tornadoes at 100m each to alpha a golem. If they manage 2 volleys before concord shows up, then the gank cost would be something like 300-400m.

So about 1bil of modules, I guess. I'm not an expert ganker, though, so I'm sure there's tricks to drive that cost down further.

For missions runners people also take advantage of the convoluted criminal system to get legitimate kill rights or flagging on the victim.

Roughly about 1 bil in fittings that can drop. Although unless you draw attention to yourself somehow up to 2 bil can be saefish enough I guess as there is usually bigger fish to fry and if you are not in one of the major mission-running hubs.

Depends also on tactics you are using. For example, doing missions with 2 or more ships can discourage ganks as it adds variables into the mix (what are the leadership bonuses, if you have already 2 present to you also have offgrid booster, can there be some remote reps on ships that can be used if gank happens, etc).

Edit: Dont count on them using tornados. A Catalyst swarm can bring down a battleship at the fraction of the tornado gank cost. and in Sec 0.5 (which kinda makes sense for mission running) it takes quite a while for concord to show up. Up to 30 sec or so before COCORD fires first volleys.

Approximately 18 seconds is the value of concord response time in 0.5 if they aren't already spawned and offgrid. It can increase by as much as 5-6 seconds if they are pre-spawned (primed) but not on grid.

Consider how little it takes to add buffer on top of an active tank.

For armour: 1600mm plate + Slaves + Ganglink booster in system = only 1 module sacrificed, yet suddenly you're a brick.

For shield? Meh.

Well - if you are spending few bill already on a pirate BS plus some shine on it it certainly would make sense also to "insure" it with a logi alt if one is flying it around hisec on regular basis.

It is possible to make pretty much "max" skill (for the purposes of logi) Scimi alt on the power of 2 offer. It's sort of the only thing it does but it does it like a pro. so instead of throwing 2 bil on a booster one can throw 700 mil / month on a alt that works for a short burst like four XL T2 local boosters (if providing turret tracking liks which are substantial on Logi 5 Scimi) or can run these four transfers permanently if cap recharge fitted and with bit lighter local tank.

Without local booster most shield battleships can be fitted for pretty good buffer. If logi alt is subbed for a while after ready a shield mindlink can increase the shield bonus from leadership and being in fleet from 10% to 15% - assuming one does not already have offgrid booster.

But the regular clients for suicide ganks ofc won't do it. They insist on being cap stable while being overtanked against specific damage types with glaring resist holes to take advantage of. They probably do not even know to overheat all hardeners / shield booster / propulsion mod and try to warp out when 20 catalysts land on them.