EVE New Citizens Q&A

Get an improved cloaking device, a microwarp drive and head to low sec. If you encounter a gate camp. don't panic. You have a few seconds of default cloak from jumping through the stargate. So what you want to do is find an astral body of any kind that you can warp to, that is in the opposite direction of the gate camping fleet.

What do want to do here is a bit tricky, and you should practice this in high sec before relying on it. Click on the align to button on the astral body you picked. As soon as you do this, click on your improved cloaking device and then immediately after, click the microwarp drive until it kicks in. You only have a couple second grace period where you're allowed to activate the MWD after activating the cloaking device.

When activated, click the MWD again so it'll shut off on the upcoming cycle. As soon as it does, decloak and warp to the astral body you're aligned to. You will warp instantly.

This works because in order to warp to a target instantly you need two things:

Firstly, you need to be perfectly aligned to the destination,

Secondly, you need to be at 3/4ths of your top ship velocity.

The reason this trick works is that the MWD increases your speed dramatically and pushes it well over your top speed when you aren't using it, so as soon as it's shut off, your speed will start to drop back down but it'll already be over the standard top speed of your ship. So as soon as you disable the cloak and click on "warp to" you will warp instantly.

Again this requires a lot of fast accurate mouse clicking but with a bit of practice it works very well. Practice it enough and no gate camp will ever get you. The only time this does not work is if you jump through the gate and end up 2 km from another player, if you're that close, you can't activate the cloaking device. That rarely happens though.

Good luck.

Will only add:

DON'T fly what you CAN'T AFFORD to loose.

Nuff said.

Hey-o, have a link to my Cloak-MWD trick guide. There are many like it, but that one is mine. Cloak-MWD is not infallible, but it does give you a chance. The Drake has the spare high-slot to do it, and I've actually very frustratingly missed Drake kills in lowsec multiple times because of this trick. Make sure to practice it with a friend or something before trying it for real.

Other than that, if they have the firepower to kill a Drake on a lowsec gate... there is really not much you can do, at least in your Drake. Frigates usually get through just fine (and even then not all the time), but anything above that is too easy to catch.

Best advice in 3 pages of replies...

yes, gate camping is the ultimate faggotry in this game. It's funny how they think they are so good at pvp and stuff, with them sitting on the hi-sec exit gate in perfect optimal range and insta lock ships with their little orca's right next to them.

Use the F10 map to look for systems with lots of deaths

This is absolutely untrue:

1. Low sec missions have a substantially higher payout.
2. If you are prepared a lot of the risk can be reduced/mitigated.

The OP just went into low-sec unprepared with the idea that low-sec is a higher-risk extension of high-sec, when the factors that come into play are vastly different.

cant help but point out that this was not a gate camp.

There is a lot of bad advice in here apart from the first few attempts at it. Ultimately it wont matter though, as most ppl either figure it out and move past high sec or don't and stay they until they become rank and file in null.

Here is an honest protip, your first few time to lowsec, don't head there for profit, head there to figure it out (recon work). Profit comes after understanding (same goes for null but bubbles make it less forgiving)

I read the first page, skimmed the rest, FYI. I see people saying "Take a shuttle" or "Fit a fast Frigate for relatively cheap" etc etc. What I didn't see anyone mention is Smart Bombs. Frigs and shuttles are great for getting around speedily, they suck, however, for slipping past gate camps in low sec. I learned the hard way that a favorite tactic of loser "veterans" with no life is to sit at a gate all day in a ship capable of tanking the gate guns and wait for innocent passer-by's only to pop 7 smart bombs as they try and scoot by. What happens is instant trip for said innocent back to wherever their clone happens to be stationed. Do not pass go, do not collect whatever you were going to collect in low sec. As far as I know (I'm new, been playing about a month) the only way to get past that little gem of a trick is to take a ship that can survive the smart bomb assault long enough to get through the gate. Ships like the OP's drake which is vulnerable to experienced tacklers. So, what's a noob to do?

I don't know what implants you are putting in but it takes a helluva lot longer than 16 days to train for a Crane and then the appropriate fittings to make it effective. If he's having a hard time replacing a Drake I would definitely not recommend him trying to jump into a 140 million ISK Crane which is easily double the cost of a Drake (unless he's fitting T2 mods already, but even then the Crane will still be more expensive by a good deal).

You're giving crap advice, you're wrong on most of your information and you're telling him to break the first rule of EVE. It's been a while since my alt trained for a blockade runner but I believe it took close to 8 weeks to get it trained so I could fit and fly it correctly (correctly being the important word of that sentence).

That IS how it is. Lowsec isn't nearly as dangerous as null. In nullsec you can put down warp disruption bubbles that prevent warping while inside them. In other words, no targetting involved. I would advise reading up on both lowsec and nullsec before any further ventures... after all, you DID get a warning when you jumped into lowsec that people could try to kill you whenever they want. But like most people, you probably just ignored it.

Number one rule in EVE: Don't fly what you can't afford to lose (especially in low/null).