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Kestral Anneto
BlackSky.
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Posted - 2014.12.16 16:01:42 -
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I've been looking at moving packaged ships of all sizes with one ship. Is a freighter the best way? how about the bowhead, or are they for assembled ships only? |
Elena Thiesant
Sun Micro Systems
1568
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Posted - 2014.12.16 16:11:49 -
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Freighter (just watch the ISK value, you don't want to get the whole lot blown up). Or courier contract and let someone else worry about the ganking. Bowhead is for assembled ships. |
Dirritat'z Demblin
Unknown Dimension Alpha Volley Union
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Posted - 2014.12.16 16:29:28 -
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If you can use them; Deep-Space-Transporters. They are cost-efficient, faster and harder to gank than Freighters, and also have enough Cargo to move one packed BS + Fit arround (Or some cruisers, or a lot of Frigs).
Downside; Not that fast to skill. |
J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
5025
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Posted - 2014.12.16 17:33:42 -
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Bowhead is just a nice loot pinata atm (due to being still new, everybody wants in on the kills), but will eventually be for fitted ships.
For packaged ships, freighter or Orca would do.
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Ralph King-Griffin
Lords.Of.Midnight The Devil's Warrior Alliance
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Posted - 2014.12.16 17:43:39 -
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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.12.16 23:35:49 -
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Dirritat'z Demblin wrote:If you can use them; Deep-Space-Transporters. They are cost-efficient, faster and harder to gank than Freighters, and also have enough Cargo to move one packed BS + Fit arround (Or some cruisers, or a lot of Frigs).
Downside; Not that fast to skill.
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DST can get good tank, can use the MWD/Cloak trick to avoid gate camps and have a fleet hangar taking over 60K of packaged ships with the right skills. I still would not take one into lowsec though. Hisec only and have safe docks and exits bookmarked.
DST skill requirements are heavy, but on the plus side the same skill set also qualifies you for Blockade Runners which you CAN take relatively safely into losec.
The other common bulk ship mover is the Orca but it requires a big investment in mining skills so is really only viable if you already mine as well. |
Sabriz Adoudel
Glorious Revolutionary Armed Forces of Highsec CODE.
4102
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Posted - 2014.12.17 00:46:09 -
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I *strongly* recommend that you cover all of your hauling by training the Contracting skill to level 2 or 3, and setting up courier contracts.
I recently puchased a bunch of Photon Microprocessors (a key ingredient in tech 2 Gallente ships) in Amarr and was shipping them down to Dodixie, where prices on them were 27% higher at the time. The big parcels arrived fine, but one of my parcels didn't make it - the person carrying it had an accident involving a gank. (I didn't arrange the accident this time, but have considered doing so from time to time).
Because I'd outsourced the risk, the hauler had to forfeit the value I'd said the goods were worth to me.
I recently hauled 20 Oneiroses (total value about 3.2 billion ISK at the time) and rather than doing it myself, I just used the contracting skill. If they got to the destination safely (which they did) that was fine, I paid the hauler eight million ISK. If the hauler got ganked, even better - they would have to pay me four billion ISK.
So ask yourself: Is there a very important reason why you personally need to do the ship moving? Most of the time the answer is no, and you should do it my way (and cover the cost via some other, more profitable activity). If the answer is yes - AND you would not be financially crippled by losing a freighter and the 10 Oneiroses inside it - then and only then skill a freighter.
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