EVE New Citizens Q&A

Expect ganks in hisec, even if the system you're mining in is quiet.

Make liberal use of dscan: set it to max distance and 360 degree scans, and it'll show any ships within 14 AU of you.

*snipped protection racket promotion* - CCP Eterne

While Mackinaws and Hulks get bonuses to their ore holds and yield respectively, a well-fitted Skiff can hold out long enough for CONCORD to have a chat with a ganker. Something to keep in mind.

As the OP may have noticed, there are groups that have reduced suicide-ganking of mining ships to a science - multiple groups, as well as many solo gankers (i.e. buying into a protection racket doesn't do much to, well, protect you).

Several methods can be utilized to overcome the gankers: you can pick and choose safer systems to mine in; you can accept an occasional gank as the price of doing business; you can get a friend to fly top cover with something like a Scythe or Osprey to buff your shields to survive the ganker; you can accept lower yields and fly a tougher ship to discourage the gankers; and more.

Ripard Teg (he of the Jester's Trek blog and the CSM) actually had a few posts this spring which were basically how-to's for both sides of the conflict: how to set up an effective gank, and how to set up an effective counter to a gank. (The short anti-gank strategy: one guy in a jamming ship can screw up a bunch of throwaway gank destroyers.)

Bah you are completely right! This just proves how long its been since i have done any mining unless i get dragged kicking and screaming from the station

You should also make sure you stay away from other miners that you don't know. They are often alts that are used as warp ins to land the gankers on top of you. (That or let them get nice and close and keep some friends around in fleet that can warp to you or are cloaked up, and rip the ganker up when he shows up and aggresses).

For the OP, in case there was any confusion:

The "laws of Highsec" in question are the desires of a group of extortionists trying to force others to pay money and feed their egos, enforced through ganks and bumping mechanics. Now some branches of game theory may state that you fare better by submitting to extortion than you would by rejecting it (assuming that the extortionist and victim are operating in a vacuum), but the extortionist fares better than his victim in all cases. Plus, once you've submitted, you're no longer off the radar of a set of gankers. Plus there's the threat of gankers not associated with the extortionists, against which the extortionists provide zero protection.

Counter-strategies as provided in this thread are probably more useful as learning experiences.

For the New Order representative:

There's a reason that the extortion racket got smacked down twice in this thread. There's a difference between behavior enforced through threat and generally accepted laws. And (as an aside) there's a strong correlation between lower-abdominal tomography (CT or MRI) and early detection of cancer of the ego, before it metastasizes to the rest of the brain.

In the case of the OP, he was attacked by someone at war with his corp.
CONCORD does not intervene in that case.
(And yes, that means that most of the advice in this thread do not apply to the OP's situation, as it was not a suicide gank.)

When your corp gets war-declared, high-sec is no longer safe and you'll have to watch local for war targets.
Mining solo, in a retriever, while not really paying attention is not a smart thing to do - you'll have to treat high-sec just as you would low-sec, except that you can (mostly) ignore the neutrals.

Edit: dam, ninja'd.

Anytime you see something listed by someone from the New Order regarding Laws here and there.

Point your finger and start laughing as loud as you can.

The things they call Laws of high-sec is jsut their gameplay that they try to enforce up to people.