Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
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Posted - 2013.09.05 18:51:00 -
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Droidster wrote:Marc Callan wrote:There's no such thing as gank-proof. There's gank-resistant, to a degree, but at the moment, none of the Deep Space Transports really have the beef to withstand a coordinated suicide gank, especially if you're on autopilot and giving the gankers time to line up their shots before you jump. DST design is more about being tackle-resistant, in any case, with the warp core strength to slip an opportunistic tackler or two at a non-hisec gate (but not enough to get through a coordinated, determined gate camp). This hi-sec EMPIRE we are talking about here. I am not planning to autopilot through Fountain, ok?
Outside of high sec it is not suicide ganking. Suicide Ganking is when they gank you knowing full well Concord will eat their ship within 20-30 seconds. this oly happens in high sec. in low and 0.0 they do not risk anything ganking your hauler, and have far more than 20-30 seconds to do it. In "Fountain" a frigate can gank a freighter, it just takes time to burn thru the tank, but CONCORD is not coming, so you have all the time in the world.
There are gate camps in high sec, along trade routes, looking for ships exactly as you described yours to be. I hope the character you are posting with is not the one that will be flying this ship, as you will now be watch listed by gankers due to this thread.
A freighter has a ~200ehp buffer and can be taken out by a fleet of about 8 Gank talos at a cost of about 800M. If a freighter carries more than about 1B in cargo it is profitable to gank. If it is seen afking it will be ganked, evenutually, not matter how lucky you are, eventually you will be caught dropping the soap.
A DST no matter how well tanked they are, easy to get them to 100k ehp buffer, are still easier to gank than a freighter. If you autopilot it thru high sec with 1-2B in cargo, it will get ganked. Putting it in a battleship is not much safer, less chance of getting scanned maybe, but equally easy to gank if the cargo value is high enough.
Auto piloting billions in cargo thru EVE, even through high sec, is suicide. However, if you are to busy to pilot the ship yourself, and to cheap to pay for someone else to do it for you, then by all means, go get yourself ganked. But do not come back here crying when you lose 2B in cargo. Unless of course your actual intent is to fill the tear buckets that will be waiting. |