Crime & Punishment

Frigates at lowsec gates - what have you been smoking mate?
Also, stabs are pretty much useless since every halfway serious lowsec camp uses at least one Heavy Dictor.

Smartbombs will NOT get you CONCORDed in high unless you hit an innocent. I wish people would stop spreading crap information. My main is grinding standing in Minmatar space, and two smartbombs fit on an Ash in L1 missions IN HIGH is a great way to kill ships quickly. Yes, I'm in range of structures, and no, I've never been CONCORDed.

The key in HiSec is to simply avoid being scanned, the idea is that even pirates do there math and wont attack if the risk is not worth it. The exception is, if they know u most likely have valuable stuff anyway on this route, in a particular direction.

So like someone already stated cloaky haulers are safe because there is nearly no timeframe someone can lock u. Remember that this still can happen if they use sensor booster alts and directly manage to click u at the same 1sec server update cycle u activate your cloak. This means realistically they have around 0.5sec to find and click u!

The next part is to survive a tornado alpha of max. 11k damage, so fit your hauler for this. This is mainly critical for dock/undock, so a afterburner for docking and insta safespots for undock is also needed. Than also try fit in stabs/nanos to improve insta align time.

The last key elements are to improve your EHP simply to survive 2-5 Tornado alphas and warp stabs, if u get locked and pointed and engaged before concord comes. This can only be accomplished by a T3 ship, which can get up to 200k EHP and fit enough warp stabs.

So bottom line, atm the T3 ships are the most safe, in a cloaky config with stabs and lots of EHP to survive 3-5 tornado's.
The second are the cloaky haulers with 14k+ EHP to survive 1 tornado + maybe 1 support hurricane, frig.

Also if u carry expansive stuff put them in a container and contract them to your hauler, this way they only see the container on scan. This ofc will ring there "bling" bells, but from your perspective its still better since without they exactly see that u are worth attacking, but if they see "just" a container they may just "suspect" that u are worth it. Also its not "this" uncommon to transport this way to ensure your sorted inventory keeps in place, while contracting a hauler job.
Also add a dummy container with lots of mixed t1/t2 items and, or salvage that u don't contract, so it will show up on scans. The idea is to generate a huge list of "un-suspicous" and cheap goods that will conceal your single cargo container, since they only have a few seconds to decide to attack u or not.

The next tip is to travel with a dummy hauler, alt. This works like in the real world, u send your dummy ahead and directly behind your main hauler. The idea is that they will most likely scan and engage the first one before the second one, thats because if u undock/uncloak they cant switch to a second target a second later. This works only if u use the container, contract trick, so they cant be sure weather u have nice stuff or not. U can even scale this like in real world for added benefits, picking the right target to point in a convoy of 3-5 transporters, which all have the same loot lists is basically a gamble :p

bye Andy

Dont carry all your eggs in 1 basket.

If you have 30k m3 of sleeper loot (like really, that could be worth 50bil+ or some shite) then its alot smarter and safer to do x3 trips with a cloaky hauler opposed to 1 with a regular hauler.

I always move my stuff with cloaky hauler, even if its 5-6 hauls worth with eve's current gank methods its just stupid to never be too careful.

I am seeing more Orcas getting ganked lately just because. It is being done just because it can be done. No other reason is needed. If you have a ganker blob hanging around not finding anything to do then along comes an orca guess what happens!