Out of Pod Experience

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Hello LAGL.

Hope everyone is doing good.

Not sure if I mentioned this and if I did, please forgive and indulge me.

I completed my goal of clearing out loot from stations throughout the Eve cluster. Man that was one hell of a job and I hope to never do such a large scale task like that ever again. Granted I still have some items left sitting in stations but for the most part that task is done.

After all was said and done, I only ended up with maybe 1/5th of the Minerals required to build the parts required to build the Bowhead.

So I had to do something I didn't want to do, I redeemed my 2x PLEX that I had reserved in case my sub ran out and sold them in Jita. I then went to Rens and bought the rest of the Minerals needed to build this beast of a ship.

After adding up all expenses - BPC package, Materials and Production cost, the total amount spent is 1,078,000,000 ISK (1bill 78mill). The average price on Market for the ship already built is 1,500,000,000 ISK (1bill 500mill). I saved 422,000,000 ISK (422mill).

All parts have already been produced and the ship is currently being manufactured right now. It's been on the assembly line for 4 days and in another 7 days the ship will be operational.

Then comes the daunting task of ship fitting. Since this will be carrying my Exploration ships, the Bowhead Transport needs to have a very good tank. The planned routes it will travel is High Sec systems so it needs to stand up to suicide gank attempts yet still afford some maneuverability.

I've done a bit of research and most ship fits for it are Hull tanks. I did some EFT and came up with this fit, let me know if you think it'll work for High Sec transport. I plan on doing the MWD Align/Jump trick when traveling.

This is a Tech 2 Hull tank fit, it has 100k more Effective Hit Points and the align to warp time is almost double that of the Faction fit I posted.

DMC

Bowhead is a bit too juicy target, with all that bay capacity, I'd rather use Orca.

But about those fits, don't see the point using inertia modules with MWD trick ?

Same here. I could see myself using it as a transporter for couple exploring ships but nothing pricy.

The ship price alone makes it a red flag for gangers, not to mention what it can hold in cargo.
If you really need that much space, then it's another matter, but I'd be too nervous to travel around with that much stuff.
Orca can have decent hull tank also, better worth for the money IMO.

I see you didn't update EFT in a while. :)