Is such a ship and/or fitting possible? I'm not really experienced with PVP or ganking so am in dire need of directions as to what ship and fittings I should train for. My PVE alt can fly Gallente battleships. Should I go for tanking ability or stealth? etc etc etc. Any thoughts appreciated. :)

How low volume? If your moving stuff that hardly takes space, like implants and BPs, use a ceptor. You'll warp before they can even scan you. If you moving a larger amount of stuff then ya, get an orca, the unscannable bay is great.

Never fly valuables in anything that will die to smartbombs.

Is such a ship and/or fitting possible? I'm not really experienced with PVP or ganking so am in dire need of directions as to what ship and fittings I should train for. My PVE alt can fly Gallente battleships. Should I go for tanking ability or stealth? etc etc etc. Any thoughts appreciated. :)

Is such a ship and/or fitting possible? I'm not really experienced with PVP or ganking so am in dire need of directions as to what ship and fittings I should train for. My PVE alt can fly Gallente battleships. Should I go for tanking ability or stealth? etc etc etc. Any thoughts appreciated. :)

Never fly valuables in anything that will die to smartbombs.

High-sec suicide gankers generally don't use smartbombs.

Orca is the best choice for carrying the high value items. It can get 230k+ ehp and has an unscannable corp hangar. This is the ship you want to get if you carry valuable goods regularily. Here's a fit for that. You will want the MWD to get your align time to 10s:

[Orca, Secure Hauler /w MWD & cloak]
Damage Control II
Power Diagnostic System II

Invulnerability Field II
Invulnerability Field II
Photon Scattering Field II
Prototype 100MN MicroWarpdrive I

Prototype Cloaking Device I
Core Probe Launcher I, Core Scanner Probe I
Salvager I

Large Core Defence Field Extender I
Large Core Defence Field Extender I
Large Core Defence Field Extender I


Warrior II x5
Vespa EC-600 x5

For an easier to train and more affordable ship you could use a double-buffered rokh. Obviously you shouldn't carry anything too valuable in it but even with low skills you should be able to get it into 180k (charon) range easily, and with all level V to 230k. This is for high sec use only. Here's a fit:

The best way to transport high-value goods is by carrying them in the corporate hangar array of an orca. Items in the corp hangar will never show up on cargo scans, and will never drop upon ship destruction. No sane suicide ganker would blow you up since they would only lose money in the process. As for the insane ones, well, there's not much you can do about those.

Carrier would be best...if planned right.

I thought they fixed this.

Or is it that customs agents can now see illegal items in the corp hangar?

Wont say something new but here are my advices for you:
a) High sec: Your first bet is a viator(or any blockade runner) with cov ops cloak. Fit meta 4 inertia modfiers on lows if you dont need the expanded cargohold.
Your second bet is an orca which can carry 40k in corp hangars. Thats unscannable and doesnt drop if she dies. The fit Keras gave(with 100mn mwd) is the best for trasports as it cuts the align time to 10 seconds from 50 seconds(warp, hit mwd and close it, when mwd goes off you enter warp)
For both cases you need insta undock bookmark for the station you use a lot as well as an insta dock one. Both reduces the time you spend near a station near to zero.
b)Low sec: Jump freighter is the safest(almost zero risk) hands down. If you want something cheaper for low volume you can go with viator or ceptor.

[Viator, Danger zone]
Local Hull Conversion Inertial Stabilizers I
Local Hull Conversion Inertial Stabilizers I
Expanded Cargohold II

ECM Burst II
10MN MicroWarpdrive I
Invulnerability Field II

Covert Ops Cloaking Device II

Medium Cargohold Optimization I
Medium Low Friction Nozzle Joints I

Has 5400 cargo, enouph for 2 frigates/1 cruiser packaged. You can change the expanded cargohold and the rig to something else if you dont want the space. ECM burst just in case. Tank isnt needed because agility is your best friend, thought an invu never hurts. Align time is at 3.7 seconds without mwd.

Is such a ship and/or fitting possible? I'm not really experienced with PVP or ganking so am in dire need of directions as to what ship and fittings I should train for. My PVE alt can fly Gallente battleships. Should I go for tanking ability or stealth? etc etc etc. Any thoughts appreciated. :)

If when you say Empire space you're talking purely highsec, as in 0.5 and above Concord-protected, I personally have never had a problem flying stuff in a tanked-out Dominix. But I've never moved more than about a billion isk's worth of stuff at a time.

However, it would take an awfully hefty gank camp to beat down a Domi before Concord gets involved. When you're only needing to run it in short bursts, you can easily get a massive EHP with everything-resists and still be dual-rep-capable. I'm pretty sure it's within a decent shout of being unkillable inside Concord response time, unless you have a large, well-organised group who hate you and also know exactly when you're going to be shifting your precious shinies, at which point: mate, you have problems that will not be resolved by ship selection alone.

If you're including lowsec, I agree with the people recommending cloakiness.

Damnation with a Legion for Boosts.

852k EHP with Slaves, and if someone wants to shoot 4 freighters worth of EHP, they'll shoot 4 freighters instead of trying to get ~100 people in the same place shooting the same target.

what is instant undock bookmark ?
what is pseudo-akf ?
what is instawarp ?
why hit MWD then cloak on approach ?

thx!

Google is your Friend.

thx for saving my time you freak with white shirt

Lol at anyone flying in an industrial or small ship. Get serious for real. I would never carry around anything valuable in a paper tank.

Use a T3. You cannot fck with the EHP of a legion or proteus. We are talking 250-350K Ehp without slaves.
And it can cloak.

If you can't afford that, use a a shield buffer plus hull tanked battleship.
Oh, that sounds stupid? Try it in EFT. It's at least 200K ehp. This Rokh below checks out at 225k ehp.

High-sec suicide gankers generally don't use smartbombs.

Covert-ops blockade runner with below 4 sec align time, should save you from almost anything.

leaves you only vunrable when undocking.

which is best solved with.

1) dock up again if you think you're threatned (first 30 seconds you're invunrable if you do nothing after undocking after 10 seconds you can dock again)

2) make safe point in a straight line from undocking, undock use you 30 seconds to let the ship reach max speed and warp to safe point.

Ships/fittings
Cov. op. frig (worst choice because of low HP), Cloakable transport ship, T3 with Cov. op subsys.
I use blockade runner ship (Prorator) with damage control and reinforced bulkheads when undocking Jita 4-4 or pass through smartbomb heavy gate as it has 22k EHP tank which can tank ~70 large smart bomb hits (more than enough :)

Fly safe o/

Its silly to train for 3 months to fly an Orca that costs 750mil to move small, high value items. Unless, maybe, it exceeds the volume of the available options. In hisec, the only goal is to not get locked. Thats it. No target lock, no scan, no die. Cloaky haulers and covops are always a good choice, but the MWD/Cloak trick works in hisec even better than it does losec (no one moves to kill you immediately). A cargo fitted industrial shuold handle most of the bigger stuff with mwd/cloak.

Again, very simple, your only goal is to not get target locked.

Again; Cov-ops Frigate like the Cheetah.

Cloaking ability, fast and small.

Why not?

Force Recons (especially the Falcon) work really well for this. Fill the mids with shield buffer an the lows with Istabs and you'll warp like a covops and you'll have a decent tank.

Smartbombs and not really more agile than a cloaky hauler, the main advantage is that u need a even more crazy remote boost setup to insta lock, but it is still possible. Also we talk about extreme expansive hauling here, so at least u should be able to use a cloaky T3 over a Frigate, while also having a pretty low sig, if not use a transport service.

Insta-Lock is a lie. You cannot lock something before it cloaks unless they misclick or something.
The server operates in 1s ticks.

why hit MWD then cloak on approach ?

If the server operates in 1s ticks, is the difference between a 3.6s align time and a 3.8s align time meaningless?

Swapping a LSE for a MWD puts another wrinkle into the Rapier vs Falcon comparison by decreasing the Rapier's EHP significantly more than the Falcon: 71889 vs 74884. I.e. the Falcon manages to erode the Rapier's sig/survivability advantage. I'm not really sure it makes sense to go for a MWD on a high sec, cov ops cloak hauler though.

From what I understand, the whole point of the mwd cloak trick is to make a non cov ops cloak ship reach warp speed while still cloaked. I.e. it insta warps once the cloak drops. Whereas a cov ops cloak requires no special maneuver to warp while cloaked. Furthermore, EFT claims that the mwd will increase align time.

Therefore, it seems like in the scenario of using a cov ops ship to haul in high sec, a mwd would be of no help at best and a detriment at worst. Successfully surviving a high sec gank amounts to lasting until Concord kills the gankers. However, MWDs and/or afterburners would be useful when taking such a hauler into low sec as you actually have to try to escape if gankers manage to catch you.