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I want to move small cargo (frigate size cargo) the fastest way using manual gate jumping (no auto-pilot).
I'm thinking the classic moving speed is not what I'm looking for (answered in this question) because I'll be only jumping (and warping) from system to system and not flying the ship around.
I'm thinking warp drive speed but I don't know how to affect this (rigs, implants and modules)?
Am I right? If so what ship would it be?
The Claw is the fastest of the Interceptor group, but a Dramiel running an MWD is faster because of its lower mass, since MWD speed boost is affected by ship mass.
Things that affect speed are
Here's a table with the calculated speeds (base ship speed, max fitted/rigged and MWD, each without skill bonus and finally with all skills at level V3):
Here are the results as CSV. They were calculated from a subset of the CCP database export with this Python script, using the speed formulas from the top speed calculation guide and the Aenigma formula for bonus stacking penalties. Some calculated speeds were cross-checked against Pyfa.
1 The speed bonuses from the Overdrive modules and Rigs are subject to severe stacking penalties, making it fairly useless to cram more than 2-3 of these in your ship in total. However for the purpose of finding the fastest ship it was assumed that all ships had their low slots full of Overdrive modules and their Rig slots full of Auxiliary Thrusters. This is not a sensible build to fly around in though.
2 These bonuses affect the velocity directly and therefore don't matter for a ship comparison. They were not taken into account here.
3 Due to neither implants nor Leadership/Gang bonuses being applied, this is not the fastest these ships can go.
A battleship is not a good choice for a level 2 mission. I used to run them in a Caracal, and that worked pretty well even with bad skills.
Best Answer
The important factors are align time and warp speed, but align time is the more important one. A ship's maximum warp speed affects how quickly it reaches that speed.
The fastest aligning and warping ship class are fleet interceptors (Ares, Stiletto, Raptor and Malediction) with a base warp speed of 8 AU and align times of a bit more than three seconds. If you transport cargo of any significant value I would recommend a Covert Ops ship (Anathema, Buzzard, Helios and Cheetah), which has an identical warp speed but higher align time of around 5 seconds. The Covert Ops cloak that those ships can fit makes it nearly impossible to get caught outside of 0.0 space in bubbles.
If you can't fly those, use an attack frigate (Slasher, Condor, Atron and Executioner). They have very low align times (<3 seconds), but a lower warp speed at 5 AU/s. But as T1 frigates they require almost no skills to fly.
The modules you want to use are Nanofiber Internal Structure II for better align times. Inertia stabilizers give a larger bonus, but also increase your signature radius. For better warp speed you want Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer rigs.
I want to emphasize that if you transport valuable cargo, you have to follow the usual safety precautions and use undock and dock bookmarks to avoid being ganked. Someone will scan your ship and notice if you carry something valuable, and the ships I mentioned have nearly no tank at all.