Missions & Complexes

For all people who do missions, you need to avoid a great surge of suicide attacks, made by gankers who become extreme active and efficient in destroying dozens of faction battleships and marauders who do missions in high sec.
Take a very close look on this kills:

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=JIis#13896053564231&if_height=170

Gankers are very well organized, use cloacky tengu to probe and scan ships, then warp in a fleet of 14-15 destroyers who melt any battleship in seconds no matter of tank.
They kill even 15-20 missioning battleships in one day, for example yesterday they destroyed 21 faction battleships, marauders and T3 cruisers, so the danger is great for everyone and is very real.

One or two expensive modules is enough to make you a target, so my advice is to use very cheap fits and t1 battleships till CCP will find a way do reduce this massacre.
Good luck and take care!

Edit: It seems that is so cheap for gankers to use destroyers, that even flying a cheap battleship with t2 modules still make you a target :

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This topic is new and interesting.

where did the bad ganker touch you?

Or here's a crazy thought. stop trying to be like apparently everyone else mad farming SOE LP. So far the 2 threads you have started, the ganks are happening in SOE mission hubs. So gankers have figured out that rich missioners are using pimp ships to blitz SOE missions for LP and are capitalizing on that.

Just doing a quick check of other good mission hubs, there is no noticable gank activity going on with them.

Anyone who puts faction/deadspace tanking mods on a marauder deserves to be ganked as it is totally unnecessary.

If people weren't stoopid and sit on the warp-in, or forget to watch d-scan; this kind of crap wouldn't happen often. Also, if known gankers are in system, go somewhere else.

We're not really worried at all. Firstly because we don't expect mission bears to stop buying, and secondly, because even if they did, there's always nullbears, wormholers, and capital pilots.

I'm relatively new to Eve, but have recently started soloing Level 4s. If you are using your max D-scan every 1-2 minutes you should be fine right? I keep an eye out for combat probes. Isn't that the only way for them to find and warp to you while in missions? I hope so because that is the assumption I have been operating under. I figured I could just warp to a station if they popup on D-scan.

The only think who can somehow protect you is to use a cheap fit, but this is not a bulletproof solution either it seems...

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They can wait you at gates, can probe and wait you at instawarp spot from station if you use only one or two, also a good prober can find you very fast in mission from one or two passes, so you have great chance to miss probes on scan. Also they may keep probes in space all time to force you to risk...

Again, a well organized and deadly gang like that i linked, leave you little to nothing what you can do to protect your ship if they decide to kill you.

Maybe avoiding mission hubs, and doing missions in systems with few people were you can notice any local spike, can be the only reliable solution at this moment who give you some protection.

A really-really-good scanner can find you in 30 second, so hit D-Scan a little more often than 1 minute. If you see probes assume they are looking for you and prepare to warp to a safe spot (Get Aligned). If you see the probes but can't warp out then start spamming D-Scan every 10 seconds to see what might be incoming, and start to overheat hardeners as soon as you see a ship, remember you only have to stay alive for 30 seconds and overheat repairs are a lot cheaper than ship replacements. Not to mention if they do kill ya, you want them to have to pay a repair bill on absolutely everything they loot.

And I would not go down without a fight, a decent Mission boat; mine for instance does 1500dps, it should be able to blap a destroyer (especially the way these are not tanked) So lock em up and deny them a second cycle, every little bit helps. And if it doesn't help you haven't lost anything you weren't already going to lose.