Business thursday: Traffic jam at Jita

Since EVE become more and more popular, more and more people are getting into Jita to shop. This makes Jita a busy place. It is usually full so you can't jump in. As the load comes from people in the space and the act of logging in being docking, simply removing chatbots doesn't help. Somehow motivating players to shop or PvP elsewhere would defeat the point of the existence of Jita. The shoppers want to come because this is where the stuff is, the traders want to come because this is where the buyers are, the gankers want to come because this is where the targets are. They could ban duels though, as that's consensual PvP and the parties could really jump one system away. Some other random stuff like manufacturing line and corporate offices could be removed too like they removed agents and belts. But the real solution is buying stronger hardware or optimizing the code.

However until some solution is implemented, businessmen face a nasty problem. So, you are busy hauling 25B cargo on average, all small items like officer and deadspace modules, skillbooks, implants. You have a transport Tengu which has 500K EHP with your non-perfect skills and lack of escorting fleet booster. It's cloaky, aligns under 4 seconds, never caused any problems. And now it sits on the Perimiter gate, unable to cloak or move, while you are spamming the jump button watching the midslot heat climbing up. Not a pleasing situation.

There isn't much you can do to prevent it, besides jumping to Maurasi to sit on the less camped Maurasi-Jita gate. It seems your fate is in the hand of luck, which isn't a good thing. Sooner or later someone will crack your Tengu open. Of course you could just split up the cargo, but that would mean more jumps in a gate what can hold you for 5-10 minutes. Or you can reschedule your real life to transport near downtime. Or set up 25 different Red Frog contracts and wait a day. Neither one is acceptable.

Now, your situation isn't that bad. You surely have a supercapital pilot in training with near-perfect armor tanking skills. You probably also have an Orca pilot. With these, in a month of training you can conjure up an armor-boosting Orca and the ship that will get you trough the traffic jam without ganks: You have 8 minutes to jump in before the hardeners burn out. Armor hardeners have 20s cycle, so it is much harder to suicide-neut it than a shield-tanked Tengu. Finally, it has 147m signature, so the 400m resolution Tornado guns will do half damage on it. So its anti-tornado EHP is close to a capital ship. Anyone wants to suicide gank a carrier in a 0.9 system? Well, mine is there a few times a week, come and take it!