EVE New Citizens Q&A

1. I'm wondering if buying an industrial ship with a covert ops cloaking device (viator) will let me move stuff in hisec around pretty much safe from gate campers in destroyers. I'm guessing that 100% safety is impossible, just safe from the average ganker.

2. Is ganking more difficult in a 1.0 system than a 0.5? Or is there some other reason they would be less inclined to gank in 1.0?

Best bet if you want to learn how not to be ganked is to try your hand at ganking for a while yourself. You'll learn a lot and that information will help you evade gankers.

A viator that has a cloak and doesn't screw up is very hard to kill. As is, for that matter, a tanked freighter with a combat and utility escort (something I've only seen a couple of times).

On 0.5 and 1.0 - CONCORD will show up considerably faster in a 1.0 system. This means we need more firepower to pop you and it costs us more (in both ships and player time), and it also means our available resources might not be up to the task at all. So yes, 1.0 is less unsafe than 0.5, but an Iteron even under gate gun protection can still be ganked easily by two players in cheap ships in a 1.0.

1. Basically - yes. With proper fit (tank and agility) you will give gankers hard time to catch you. But it is not 100 procent impossible. Another good option for very low volume is Luxury Yacht. Fitted with factional inertia stabs or full set of Genolution implants it can warp in less, than 2 seconds. Best ship to move skill books or blue prints. Specialized gallente transports are better suited to move goods in safe high sec and Wreath is the best T1 industrial ship for mwd/cloak, IMHO.

Actually, you do not really need viator to move goods in high sec. Ship itself is expensive and if you get even more expensive stuff in it - you will be ganked even in 1.0 anyway. If you need a test - join gallente militia and try to jump from Erma to Villore. Even empty gallente militia transport will be insta locked and poped in a matter of second. So key thing is not transport too much expensive stuff in one time. Specialized gallente transports are better suited to move goods in safe high sec.

I would never ever in any ship undock in major trade hub or come to the any gate with PLEX in my cargo.

2. Yes, cause concord reaction time is shorter.
0.5: Roughly 19 seconds
0.6: Roughly 14 seconds
0.7 : Roughly 10 seconds
0.8 : Roughly 7 seconds
0.9 and 1.0: Roughly 6 seconds

But there is ways how to keep concord from comming much longer by distracting it somewhere far far away from you.

This is what I would use:
[Viator, warp stab]
'Halcyon' Core Equalizer I
'Halcyon' Core Equalizer I
'Halcyon' Core Equalizer I

10MN Monopropellant Enduring Afterburner
Large F-S9 Regolith Compact Shield Extender
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Covert Ops Cloaking Device II
[empty high slot]

Medium Polycarbon Engine Housing II
Medium Cargohold Optimization II

Giant Secure Container
Huge Secure Container
Large Standard Container

Warp away time is about 4,5 second. Warp stabilizers cause I suck in reaction time.

[Viator, agility]
Inertial Stabilizers II
Inertial Stabilizers II
Inertial Stabilizers II

10MN Monopropellant Enduring Afterburner
Large F-S9 Regolith Compact Shield Extender
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Covert Ops Cloaking Device II
[empty high slot]

Medium Polycarbon Engine Housing II
Medium Cargohold Optimization II

Giant Secure Container
Huge Secure Container
Large Standard Container

Warp away time is less, then 3 seconds. Which can be more safe if you are good in clicking and pressing buttons, cause gankers probably has more than 3 effective points, so 3 stabs will not save you.

The Blockade Runner is a good choice for small things. As was said, always using the cloak and having insta-dock and undocks will keep you safe.

And a good alternative is the Deep Space Transport. Fit with an active tank and with their overheating bonus, the DSTs can rival freighters in EHP but are much harder to bump. They hold much more than Blockade Runners.

Both need to be actively piloted to be safe though. But flown properly, either will make you 99.9+% safe to casual gankers so only if you do something extremely silly (like stuffing many billions of ISK of goods in) to attract attention will you be at any real risk.

The Viator is immune to cargo scanners. Gankers can not tell if you have nothing or 500 PLEX in your cargohold. This is important because even empty you are at a much higher risk of getting ganked than any other empty ship in game and the ship is not cheap to begin with. So if you buy one you need to be on your toes at all times, full of expensive cargo or empty.

QFT

I just moved 8bil in a blockade runner through most of the prominent ganking systems a few nights ago. Although 9/10 times I'm empty or carrying <100m in stuff. on my alts that can fly them I usually just use them like shuttles in case I want to pick something up on the way.

I'd also say your main problem will be someone with a tornado or two that is bored and wants a kill. Don't see any shiny haulers so might as well play a blockade runner lottery before bed.

If you're patient the Deep Space Transport is the way to go in highsec. I can understand the need for speed though. I'd pick the Crane for highsec in those cases. You've got 4 mid slot and T2 resists which gives you a beefy enough tank.

You can also go with the Viator, which aligns in 2.0 seconds with 3 x Domination Inertials and a Nomad set. Very tough to catch that.

Too late.

So at Gates i can mark a Bookmark to get me closer to it than just warping to gate as normal.