Ships & Modules

Fit:

Providence
Corpii A-type adaptive nano plating
Corpii A-type thermic plating
Corpii A-type kinetic plating

Cost of modules: ~70m (a more expensive 270m variation is with triple adaptive plating)

Cargo: 543k m3

EHP with all V no boosts no implants
EM / THERM / KIN / EXP
300 / 360 / 340 / 240

EHP with Command Ship booster:
EM / THERM / KIN / EXP
380/ 430/ 396/ 303

EHP with Command Ship booster and HG slaves:
EM / THERM / KIN / EXP
540 / 626 / 568 / 411 (!!!)

Why it works: relatively cheap, large cargo, higher resist to typical gank ships.
Why it works really well: RISK of gank failure.

Here's the kicker though:

The key point is gankers do not know whether you have slave implant set or armor resist gang link . So their worst case scenario is 600k ehp plus a potential cloaked guardian or just a guardian sitting on a gate (ie they need to gather a very large or somewhat expensive fleet to have a guaranteed kill). So it's a risky proposition ganking a provi that is fit like this. Now that ISBOX broadcasting is banned it's also less likely to see 50 catalyst fleets.

Basically when they see any of these, even autopiloting. It could be a trap.

Also note that kin/therm resists are 77 / 74 for slaves/booster, which means that any incoming armor reps are multiplied ~4x. So a single guardian or nestor can rep 4-5k EHP per second, meaning it can counter 7-10 catalysts in addition to having high base EHP.

So effectively this fit presents gankers with a high risk of failure.

Note - a cloaky guardian with 2 Medium Targeting Systems Stabilizer II s can decloak in 7.3s, seems like a decent potential trap in 0.5 (20-25s for CONCORD to show up).

Their loss :) Both time and ISK-wise. Asymmetric time attrition warfare is the best kind :)

Your point about Guardian is correct but in 0.5 you still get 10-15sec of reps. Could be an ECM Widow / whatever. Key point remains true that your risk of failure goes up.

You can also decloak a few seconds in advance once you see the gank fleet incoming.

Btw your isk efficiency against my hauling business is 0.3% you are pretty much an annoying fly at best to my wallet anyway. This makes me think that CODE's actual impact on EVE in terms of GDP is likely negligible and is mostly psychological.

Sure, i let them annoy me way more than i should have. I still have no doubts that they intentionally annoy people as a part of their MO but you just have to be impervious to it.

I think you missed my point that this fit effectively has a passive threat of gank failure potentially allowing you to autopilot.

It also allows other people to rep you more efficiently.

If everyone starts fitting their freighters like that you might see permanent gangs of guardians as well as links/boosters services in uedama/niarja. This could be a nice addition to the present anti-ganking arsenal.

I'm not saying this is a panacea or that the fit is amazing or whatever. It's just a fit with some ideas of why it could work.

I think you are still missing the point that the threat is passive. I could be there or i could be AFK.
I could have slaves/gang links or not.

They just don't know. So they don't know how many ships to bring to make it a sure kill.

Increased probability of failure = increased long-term gank costs.

Re: "herding cats", you might be right, but i figured i'd throw it out there anyway.

You are wasting your time thinking about how to make them fail, the reality is if you do that they win. Whether or not you succeed in accomplishing making them fail, you still wasted all that time for something that is insignificant in the grand scope of things.

Your understanding of ganking is not there, while theirs is, not only that, they also know how to haul as well if not better than you.

If you want to screw them over you need to learn how to gank to equal the equation out. Roll an alt and join them, learn to gank and that will give you the answer of how to screw them over. Problem is you will enjoy yourself.

You could be right, but I don't believe that

a) they can form even a 50 man fleet often enough.
b) 100 man for freighter ganking is even realistically possible more than once a week for an hour
c) the ISK losses don't matter to them.

I mean't infiltrate not defect.

They will just kill you in 2 or 3 waves instead of 1. They don't care if it's a "potential trap" because they would just find that more fun. If you autopilot in this you will return to a new clone in station.

If you're actually using it as a trap, it's the right fit though. Just don't come in Guardians. They will become the gank targets. The Nestor was the right suggestion. Slave it for full effect!