This is true, but evading ganks and trying to fit a ship intelligently are not mutually exclusive. Sadly there is no option of âsurprise the guy by making him try to kill what has more EHP than his alphaâ since he already did the math.
They are just theroy crafting. In HS the gankers have scanned the ship and know what is in it and how it is fitted in advance and will bring the correct number of DPS. For low sec gates tank doesnât matter because there is no CONCORD and therefore no real time limit.
if youâre fit right you shouldnât even be getting scanned.
my DST all only have two mods on them a cloak and a mwd. the only place you need more than that is NS but in that case why are you using a DST to move through hostile space and not WHs or JFs?
Zkillboard gives a lot of information if you know where to look. I frequently see Tornados in Jita that cargo scan passing ships and blow them up if the EHP is low enough and the cargo is high enough.
This is one such fit:
[Tornado, Scan and Volley]
Power Diagnostic System II
Counterbalanced Compact Gyrostabilizer
Counterbalanced Compact Gyrostabilizer
Counterbalanced Compact Gyrostabilizer
Cargo Scanner II
F-90 Compact Sensor Booster, Scan Resolution Script
F-90 Compact Sensor Booster, Scan Resolution Script
F-90 Compact Sensor Booster, Scan Resolution Script
P-S Compact Remote Tracking Computer, Tracking Speed Script
1400mm 'Scout' Artillery I, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm 'Scout' Artillery I, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm 'Scout' Artillery I, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm 'Scout' Artillery I, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm 'Scout' Artillery I, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm 'Scout' Artillery I, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm 'Scout' Artillery I, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm 'Scout' Artillery I, Republic Fleet EMP L
Medium Signal Focusing Kit II
Medium Signal Focusing Kit II
Medium Signal Focusing Kit I
This Tornado deals almost 10k damage in one shot, which is enough to kill ships that their owners did not bother to tank.
High sec haulers near busy trade hubs in ships with less than 10k EHP yet with valuable cargo are in danger of being killed by Tornados.
Either youâre not paying attention to the existence of Tornados, or youâre using ships/methods that avoid getting killed by said Tornados, such as blockade runners or the MWD cloak trick.
That doesnât mean that the threat of the Tornados does not exist.
I only know some very basic rudimentary ways to look. One is searching the name of the victim. Another is searching by ship type or system. And then I know how to narrow down null/ low/ high sec. Iâm not sure where I can get the fit of the ganker. Searching by ship type âCONCORD battleshipâ doesnât give the ganker fit either.
There are multiple ways to deal with Tornados. One of them is sufficient tank, another is to use the MWD cloak trick. Youâre using one of those ways to deal with Tornados, because you too recognise that Tornados are a problem that require a solution.
Donât pretend Tornados are not a problem, you just found a different solution for it.
How I did it: used zkillboard advanced search for the system Jita, ship type Tornado and victims. Click through a few fits to pick one that is representative for gank tornados.
And to put it all in a box, type ` three times in front of the block and at the end, which ends up like this.
Tank is part of the solution. The other part is that you keep your value low enough that the number of Tornados required to gank your ship cannot kill you for profit.