How much tank is enough to be reasonably defended with a battleship in high sec for smaller high valuable cargo, or is this even an option? Is having dual 1600mm , dual LARs, DC II and some caps for energy on a Navy Dominix good enough to keep you alive while you AB it back to the gate in High Sec?

How much tank is enough to be reasonably defended with a battleship in high sec for smaller high valuable cargo, or is this even an option? Is having dual 1600mm , dual LARs, DC II and some caps for energy on a Navy Dominix good enough to keep you alive while you AB it back to the gate in High Sec?

I posted in the Ships / Module forum to get fittings for an occator / viator but i would like to ask you guys regardless of fittings specifically about your tactics to avoid HighSec Gankers.

I got killed yesterday in HighSec (0.5) in an Iteron V... from a sniping Tornado with 1400mm's while jumping manually from gate to gate and it was over very quick, resulting in me losing 50% of my wallet worth in assets :( although i even had intertias fitted so i can align faster, it didnt help i was obviously to stupid to do it right.

However, as i already mentioned in the other thread i'm very unfamiliar with how a suicider operates in HighSec in the first place and how i should counter it. Some people say even a Blockade Runner wont protect me, someone else suggested to contract the stuff so it can't be scanned.

How do you go on about this stuff in HighSec ? Whats the weakness of such gankers ? What can i do ?

How much tank is enough to be reasonably defended with a battleship in high sec for smaller high valuable cargo, or is this even an option? Is having dual 1600mm , dual LARs, DC II and some caps for energy on a Navy Dominix good enough to keep you alive while you AB it back to the gate in High Sec?

How much tank is enough to be reasonably defended with a battleship in high sec for smaller high valuable cargo, or is this even an option? Is having dual 1600mm , dual LARs, DC II and some caps for energy on a Navy Dominix good enough to keep you alive while you AB it back to the gate in High Sec?

.then one day I landed on jita 4-4....only i landed just outside of docking range and in the very small space of time it took to get into range and be pulled in I was Alpha'd by some sniper......lost about a bill and learned a very important lesson.

The lesson being of course to use a bookmark ~300 km above/below the station instead of warping directly to the station.

The lesson being of course to use a bookmark ~300 km above/below the station instead of warping directly to the station.

That would solve what ? He still would have to warp into station ultimately, no ?

The lesson being of course to use a bookmark ~300 km above/below the station instead of warping directly to the station.

I don' really move much around, but for the most part ive never had an issue with t1 industrials. Im not sure what ittys can do, but my badger mkiis run with about 28k ehp, and 8k m3 cargo space. with its resists itl take two volleys from two torados to take just its shields down in a 0.5 system. Just make sure your hauling the appropriate value for the ship, don't stuff faction mods in one. If its anything more then ammunition or modules for a couple ships, use an Orca. That thing will easily put out over 270k ehp, aswell as its corp hanger is unscannable, and wont drop its contents, making ganks less worthwhile.

Set up insta undocs by MWDing in a frigate out to say, 300+ km in front of the undock and setting up a safe spot to warp to. This will make you near impossible to catch when undocking and a blocade runnercan cloak while in warp meaning they will have no idea where you are.

Also set up a safe spot as closeto the station as possible, this willmean you will always be in docking range when you drop out of warp.

Strangely enough not all industrial pilots tank their ships, I have seen quite a few with empty mids or leave their EM hole open. Than there are those who have hardeners who just never turn them on

The lesson being of course to use a bookmark ~300 km above/below the station instead of warping directly to the station.

Viator is paper thin. The 5% armor rep bonus is a joke since you'll never get to use the repper. So forget tanking it.

Kick all cargo expanders and rigs out of it. Just forget using them at all.

Go for maximum warp velocity (rig), and maxed out agility (1 rig rest low mods).

Slap a target break mod on it in a mid slot tough if you need that you're already in big trouble.

Have evasive maneuvering, transport ship and navigation skills at 5.
Additionally add an agility implant to your head.

Don't fly afk and you should be nigh impossible to catch. Though you can always have bad luck, like getting decloaked by concord or have a really bad bump..

I know at 500km+ you don't appear on overview anymore, so I setup warp points farther than the 300km if you can still see people. Doesn't take long to make these bookmarks in a frigate with MWD.

Target break mod is an absolutely ridiculous tip - it won't help you one bit. If an alpha ship or two lock you you're most likely dead.

To some other commenters:
The warp -> MWD -> cloak 'trick' is only useful in 0.0 if you jump into a bubble (to get out of the bubble faster and to get away from the place where you jumped in faster making it harder to be decloaked). In any other case using MWD is just plain dumb (except for getting back to gate). You lose valuable time to cloak and you bloat your sig. Both not really a good idea if there's no real reason to MWD in the first place.

I posted in the Ships / Module forum to get fittings for an occator / viator but i would like to ask you guys regardless of fittings specifically about your tactics to avoid HighSec Gankers.

I got killed yesterday in HighSec (0.5) in an Iteron V... from a sniping Tornado with 1400mm's while jumping manually from gate to gate and it was over very quick, resulting in me losing 50% of my wallet worth in assets :( although i even had intertias fitted so i can align faster, it didnt help i was obviously to stupid to do it right.

However, as i already mentioned in the other thread i'm very unfamiliar with how a suicider operates in HighSec in the first place and how i should counter it. Some people say even a Blockade Runner wont protect me, someone else suggested to contract the stuff so it can't be scanned.

How do you go on about this stuff in HighSec ? Whats the weakness of such gankers ? What can i do ?