Ships & Modules

I'd like to conduct some time tests, Shuttle, Crane, some Inteceptor, Charon, to see how fast AFK travel actually is, and find out which one is fastest.

I have the means to do this already. I own a Charon, and several Cranes fitted for AFK travel (STL speed, a little buffer tank), I can easily afford to buy an Interceptor or two, and Shuttles are rather cheap.

The only problem is, I'm not sure what distance I should test, the start and end system of the test. Since I operate out of Jita, that might be a good starting or end point, but to/from where, then? Amarr? IIRC that's only about 15 jumps.

Obviously I want to do this through high-sec only, and then share my findings (because it's not obvious which of warp speed and STL speed is best), but in order to get good test results, minimizing error, the trip should be long, preferably 20-30 jumps.

So from where to where should I do this test? And are there any other ships I ought to test, besides Shuttle, Blockade Runner and Interceptor (and Charon, which I'll test for other reasons)? And which Interceptor should I test? I can fly the Interceptors of all races (but only Caldari and Gallente Transports).

I'm assuming that if I opt for a long trip, then I will probably get a combination of long warp trips and short warp trips.

Jita to Rens is 25 jumps.

This may be of interest - Howto: Build a fast autopiloting ship

Much faster yes, fitted right it has better acceleration, faster warp speed, faster top speed and so on. Covops are also very good.

Claw

Compared to an interceptor, a shuttle is slow. Just compare warp speed, etc.

Heck, some frigates are faster than shuttles.

My concern was STL speed, but while a shuttle can do 500 m/s without Navigation skill, a Raptor can do something like 405 or 415 and you can pimp it with LOW slot speed modules.

With Navigation trained to 5, my shuttle does 625 m/s, while my Raptor with 3x T2 Nanofiber does 646 m/s. And it warps a lot faster (and even more so with T1 warp rigs).

There's another racial Interceptor, Gallente I think, that has a base STL of 450 m/s and four LOW slots (and the other two races are in between that and the Caldari model I can fly). So Gallente will be even faster. Most autopilot warps, the Raptor only spends 2-3 seconds at above 19 AU/sec, so the thing to focus on is STL speed, from warp-in to stargate.

How do you get it that fast without keyboard jamming?

Note also that the Claw only does 9 AU/sec FTL.

6 AU/s on the FTL. No, I don't think so.

You don't need 21 AU/s. 19 or so is plenty. Even in a large gate-to-gate warp, you'll spend only a very few seconds at top warp speed. So skip the T2 rigs.