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The only reason to fit cargo expanders on a DST is if you need to deploy structures. Currently you can't deploy from the fleet hanger, so you have to drag your item to the cargohold and deploy from there (supposedly this gets fixed in April). Unless you are deploying large (or capital) ship assembly arrays, there is no reason for anti-tanking your DST that much (and you'll need to replace some of the T2 with ORE expanders to hit 25k). A control tower is 8k m3.

Does it, though? I always thought otherwise.

o7 to the whole of RF Freight.

(Their ingame channel is "RF Freight", and *cough* freelancers' hauling services can be obtained at "Haulers Channel" - The latter is very active with both freelance couriers and clients )

I must say that RF Freight posts very competitive prices for Hisec freighter-sized cargo hauling.

Interesting.

Thanks.

Thanks for this thread, OP. I got popped recently in my Iteron V by a Vexor.

https://zkillboard.com/kill/45750661/

I fly manual, but it was just too slow to get into warp. For me, that was a very big loss. I could use the help if someone wants to point me to a better fit. Clearly, the stabs were not any help this time and I need to get some rigs.

I will be able to fly a blockade runner in about a month. I'm fairly low skill point still.

Good topic!

Спасибо!

The total volume for the cargo was 10 m3.

Think man.

Easy to gank? Always preheat everything (else you use your DST wrong) and look at the stats of this thing:

[Occator, Rep]
Armor EM Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Damage Control II
Medium Ancillary Armor Repairer, Nanite Repair Paste
Shadow Serpentis Armor Kinetic Hardener
Armor Explosive Hardener II

Medium Micro Jump Drive
10MN Afterburner II
Cap Recharger I

Improved Cloaking Device II
Cynosural Field Generator I /OFFLINE

Medium Trimark Armor Pump II
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II

When your AAR is empty, you are in Concord's hands anyway. I prefer the Impel personally but the Occator has a better damage resist profile. And the price is only 185 mil isk fitted, you can lose a lot of freighters for that.

119xxx EHP, 92.2 / 94.9 / 97.5 / 85.9 resist profile and 2200 armor EHP/sec with a 165m signature.

Buy a permit. Follow the CODE.

Don't buy expensive stuff you intend to haul on the character that is doing the hauling. Red Frog has this as part of their standard operating procedure. The character that accepts the contract is not easily linked to the character that doers the hauling.

The best defence is not be a target in the first place - the best way to.achive that is using a blackade runner.
fly cloaked even in high sec and use the insta un/docks every time.
most people with a blocake runner will tell you they own it for years - and that is because of its supreme survival abilities.

-->> Video on how to set insta-undock bookmarks
I don't remember the last time I undocked from Jita without using one of these on any character I have (trader or PvP toon).


I also agree with all the suggestions to use a cloaky Blockade Runner. Without question, train for one and use it. There's nothing that stops you "clenching" more than being able to cloak when the aggression starts.

A few other ship types I've used depending on the items being hauled and where they're going include a stabbed/cloaked/nullified T3 Cruiser for smaller extremely high value stuff (20-30bil hauling runs often into nullsec), and sometimes also a Jump Freighter. I mostly get a kick out of the cyno process and effects which is why I use a Jump Freighter, but additionally you can undock from a hub in a reasonably well tanked ship and gtfo extremely quickly, virtually insta-undock quick.

At the end of the day though if you trade, haul or use high end gear, you're going to have to haul many billions of isk of items all around Eve and this will more than likely include the hubs. You're not going to be safe all the time and like many say sometimes it's better to not fly the ships you can't afford to lose (or not haul the cargo you can't afford to lose...).

Having said that though, when you master trading you get to a point where you realise... "hey, I can afford EVERYTHING!"
At this point you'll care a lot less about what you're flying and what you've got in it, and you'll be able to "declench" much more readily.