1. Cargo can also be transported on Cutter
2. It was for an example, I basically carry out missions on BH and often come back and intercept me. But I’m not a PVP player and as a rule when I run out of ammunition and a shield I just run away, but this is usually a fairly long battle.
3. If a ganker intercepts someone and kills this is not a skill. But to beat the ganker and which on the PVP ship, and even from morning to evening it takes - this is true skill!
So that is it then, you are "safe" in your cutter, and then ignore the rest? is that what you mean? because not everyone is flying around in Cutters when doing trading.... redo your scenario and pick a Type-9 instead... unless you have one of the magic class 5 shields on your cutter, the type 9 will hold ore cargo and be alot cheaper. How long would you survive now? there is no speed advantage, so no running away, no big shields to give you extra times...
Lets compare, Krait Mk II with Pacifiere/Fragement cannon, a good player killer...
Type 9 with class 5 prismatic and reactive surface hull, etc, would last 16+18 = 34 seconds against this ship and this is a beefed up cargo runner that designed to take a beating... and, skip the hull and put a standard class 5 shield and remove all of the G5 engineering, and you are lucky if you even lasts 15 seconds, stock hull and stock class 5 shields gives me less than 15 seconds of survival... And that is with 4 pips to shields...
Cargo capacity 752 T
Now how does my Cutter, optimized for Cargo, I have one of these magic class 5 prismatics, so I can do 752T with shields...
Shields will last for a 39 seconds,but once these are gone, the hull only last for 17 seconds. So you will be here 56 seconds. so probably long enough to jump away... but you will not outrun the Krait...
So lets recap,
Type 9, 34 seconds....
Cutter, 56 seconds...
Now even if relief manages to come to your assistance, do they manage to do ENOUGH damage to persuade me to break off? Do they have a fast enough ship to follow us? So how useful would this turn out in the end?
All of this assuming I am alone... if I fly in a wing... I will also get reinforcement.... within seconds... upping the damage potential...
Your relief,would need to be alerted if your SOS, they would target it, etc, costing valuable seconds... and then they need to locate your signal and get to it.... even more seconds fly by here... so assuming 10-20 seconds for the fastest responder would not be that far fetched to assume for this.
So the Cutter trader is the most likely one to have a chance to survive long enough to escape. the rest are not that lucky... so the usability for this suggestion is very limited with the current state of the offensive and defensive power... and I am not a the regular player, I have multiple tricked out max engineered ships... and my Type 9 does not make any sense whatsoever, since I have my Cutter... but I still built it, since not all of my friends have Cutters, or even the magical class 5 prismatics...
