Missions & Complexes

Yes....ganked. In hi sec. Even freighters get ganked in hisec.

I guess you've never heard of level 4 mission runners getting ganked by people who bait by shooting the mission runners MTU.
This has lead to many unsuspecting battleships destruction.

To make gank on high sec player who only play to pve is bullying and grief to player. This is crime in many country so you make bully you pay crime.

[Hyperion, l4]
Large Armor Repairer I
Armor EM Hardener I
Armor EM Hardener I
Armor EM Hardener I
Capacitor Power Relay I
Magnetic Field Stabilizer I
Magnetic Field Stabilizer I

Large Micro Jump Drive
100MN Afterburner I
Tracking Computer I, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer I, Optimal Range Script
Cap Recharger I

425mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge L
425mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge L
425mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge L
425mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge L
425mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge L
425mm Railgun I, Antimatter Charge L
Small Tractor Beam I

Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I

Ogre I x5
Hobgoblin I x5
Hobgoblin I x5

Oh where to start so I will start here.
Ganking is not considered bullying and ganking someone is not a banable offense CCP has made this clear in many places and over many years.

Ganking can and does happen and the more popular the mission hub is the more likely you are to be ganked and the SOE systems are the worst because the gankers know that virtually everyone will want to go there at some point in time. So OP if you are looking into missions in the SOE systems I would suggest at most a simple T2 fit ship and preferably a T1 or faction hull as well to minimize your chances.

Now to this crazy best mission Hyperion.
Well let me start by saying that I have standard T2 fit Ravens that will work as well or better than this will.
Then there are the Rattlesnake, Barghest, Machariel, Navy Raven and Nightmare fits and all of them would be as good or better than this fit.
But in reality we end up at the kings of mission ships and those are the Marauder class. Of these a cruise fit Golem is most flexible while the Paladin and Vargur both excel when running against a limited set of NPC races due to some inherent advantages to turret based weapons systems.

Please do not get me wrong here, if you like your Hyperion fit and it works for you then fly on and have fun because this is game and fun iw what this is all about. However we cannot and will not let it pass without comment when you boldly state it is the "best" mission ship because we know that it is not the "best".

And so you reveal yourself, troll.

If you want to maximise isk/hr (which I'm guessing you do from picking a specific LP Store to profit from)
You'll need to blitz a lot, afaik the Machariel is still one of the better options for this
You may want to consider a Marauder as well

FYI I've only ever used 4 ships to run L4 missions
Ishkur, Ishtar, Gila & Tengu





ps
if you stay with a T2 fit and don't use lots of expensive deadspace or faction modules then people who gank for profit will be less inclined to target you, it won't help you avoid the people who will gank you because you are there however


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Blitzing & Burner Mission info --> https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=454677&find=unread

I recommend the type you like most.
Seriously you spend a lot of time in your ship so you should take one you like and enjoy to watch.

Beside that I choose lasers because you have no cost for ammo. Tech1 crystals never deplete.
So you can min/max a bit more.

But that was my choice and need not to fit in yours.

On the long run you will end up with marauders which halfs your ammo costs regardless which type you choose.

This is an obvious troll fit. There are so many things wrong with this fit, its astounding. You could get better dps and better tank out of a drake for 1/3 the cost of this fit ..and better range... and better application of DPS.

But to the OPs question:

The golem doesnt impress me. Rattlesnake has both better DPS and better tank at about 1/3 of the cost. You wont see golems running around null doing anoms and plexing but you will see a lot of snakes and there is a reason for that.

Regardless of which ship you choose just remember the more bling you have in highsec the more people with try to gank you. My snake fit ( for anoms and plexing) is all x type deadspace and faction where deadspace isnt available and the snake fitted ( including t2 rigs) only cost 300 mil more than a golem hull.

I will agree that the rattlesnake is a heavy train with two races and two weapon systems, but to max to level v marauders require more SP. Which really only leave drones, which will be useful to train for any race( they just arent as pressing on other ships to max) I will definitely disagree on a golem being able to out tank a snake. My plexing snake, with just swapping a few mods can go from a 1200 dps rat spec tank to a 5000 dps rat spec tank.

Keeping the tanks about the same and using the same meta of mods, my snake puts out 320 more raw DPS( thats about 40% more ) when dealing unbonused damage types and 65%(525 dps) more with bonused damage types.

Lets apply this raw dps in game. Golem gets 50% to target painter effectiveness and 25% to explosion velocity. That is the argument for why the golem is better than the snake at applying dps. that difference. However, half of my snake DPS comes from heavy drones. T2 Ogres have better tracking than Light electron blasters. Ogres do not have an issue taking out small rats. The other factions drones have even better tracking .

Missiles. If you use cruise missiles you have a good reach, but the explosion velocity is still that of heavies. If you use torps, you have to get close but better explosion velocity and damage.

Since i am using heavies, my drones will actually tank quite a bit of aggro so i can free up a couple more slots either for missile guidance, more dps, or tracking.

End result, running missions, IF the golem is running torps and the snake is running cruise the golem might have a slight edge depending on the mission . If both run the same weapon type the snake wiill have a slight edge with unbonused damage and a significant edge with bonused damage.

The snake is superior to the golem at a third the cost, which is why we use it in null and not golems. They are inferior for ratting and plexing.

But as you said fly what you want, really it only matters if you are looking for max isk/hr. Otherwise any ship that will tank an L4 and kill BS will work. Personally if i was doing missions, i would probably have a pirate faction ship for each damage type and just keep switching ships depending on what faction i was shooting, because why not? It would make them less boring( at least to me)

That's a fair assessment.