Warfare & Tactics

My first point of advice is...STOP MISSIONING, STOP MINING, STOP HAULING, STOP EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT WAR!

These war decs will persist as long as he can find random stuff to gank...which he apparently can. Be organized. Never travel alone. Make your whole point in eve the destruction of this one guy (add him to your watch list so you know when he is online)

If you can't properly fit BCs then you probably cant properly fit cruisers....

If you are fighting a Loki...here is my suggestion for a 10 man Frig fleet.

Griffin X3 (All Minnie jammers if youa re 100% sure he is in a loki)
Rifter/Punisher/Tristan/Merlin/Kestrel/Incursus 7X fir points fit webs, fit TDs.

I'll be honest if he is messing with you in a loki chances are you wont kill him with frigs...but you can jam him all to hell and make fighting you impossible. Just jam him and run away. Fly nothing but Griffins fit with minnie jammers and do nothing but jam his Dram/Loki and warp away.


Another option is to quit your corp and join an NPC corp. No more WDs.

I swear I'm going to start an anti grief-er service. This type of "Sandbox" game-play is annoying to me.

Make an alt corp and have everyone except holder move there, rainse & repeat.

Thank you for the advice so far.

We're not going to switch corps. Our main income is not affected by the griefer, though I am not sure he is fully aware of that.

On the other hand we'd like to take this as practise.

I think we'll try out the frigate thing.

Concerning the Rupture, lets say that it had no t2 items only metalevel 3 items, would it still be valid?
Maybe if supported by 2-3 griffins?

I guess Adaptive Augmenter and Adaptive Shielding don't exist then.

/nitpick

Make sure you have the few systems you call home riddled with good Bookmarks and use D-scan.

• 1 x Aligned (gate to celestial). Make a BM enroute.
• Multiple non-aligned safe spots. Used Aligned BM and warp to another celestial. Make a BM inflight. Repeat using first non-aligned bookmark.
• Make a few tactical BM's around gates. 200+ km away from gate (make via safe BM's). Warp to 100km of gate. make temp BM. Warp to safe. Warp back to temp BM by 100km. You sould be over 200km from gate. BM that spot. You can scout out bubbles, etc.
• Learn how to use directional D-scan. It is your friend. Set to 30km or so (~ 10km for each acceleration gate) while running dead-space missions. If he is in system, you will have some warning before he jumps in you in dead-space.
• Make an insta undock warp. When you undock, MWD out to about 250km and make a BM. continue for 1000km + and make another. Same idea for when you return to station: scout it scout it out in advance.
• Make a few instant DOCK BM's at bottom, top and where you undock. (people tend to camp the undock). If you rely upon docking after warp, you can bump out of range of docking.
• Make friends with others in local and set up an intel channel.

Call me crazy, but I do not recommend sharing safe BM's etc unless you 100% trust your corp mates. Unless he takes time to scan you down at a safe, you should be OK. I recommend staying aligned to another safe and 'moving' while at a safe.

Team up to run and salvage missions. Two eyes are better than one. Pick your fights.

Have fun. War's make Eve exciting.

A well fit Loki will tank 1500+ DPS with a set of crystals.

If this guys is targeting newbies in H sec.. you can bet he is flying a shinny fit with good implants, because well... H sec. I recommend using a small frig fleet to determine how he fits his Loki (combined with some research on EVE Kill and Battle Clinic.) If it turns out he is fitting a shinny active tank, use a nueting Dominix or other nuet ship to break him. I am a big fan of the mixed thorax/arbitrator fleet if you want to go cheap T1 cruisers. Fit the Thoraxes for buffer and good DPS with EW drones; the arbitrators RR with tracking disruptors and damage drones.

Getting him to engage a well organized fleet is going to be hard though.. I recommend finishing 90% of a mission and parking one of the toons he has ganked running a mission before in the site. Have them in your nuet dominix or something comparable, and then log off your fleet from the mission. When mr greifer gets into system with you. start shooting rats again and generally looking like a mission runner. If he tries to gank the "mission runner" point him and log the rest of your fleet in.

Like every situation in EVE, success only come to those who put in the effort. You need to understand the game mechanics and out think your opponent in order to use them against him. On the plus side, you have numbers, which is WAY more important than SPs. Make sure to watch out for neutral RR, or a spike in his corp count though. He is going to be using every dirty trick in the book, so try to stay five steps ahead of him.

I can only echo the advice others have given here but what I will say is good on you and your corp for deciding to take the fight to this guy - a lot of carebears curl up into the fetal position and cry for their mothers when war decc'd so kudos for manning up and fighting back.