EVE General Discussion

Blockade runners are probably best, yeah -- but just so you know, you'll need to be decloaked to fetch cargo from the Custom's Office, as you'll be closing within 2.5km. So -- there's always a risk. Similarly, if you're not nimble enough and someone's quick to tag you while you're aligning to warp and activating your cloak from the jump-in (slim chance, but not impossible), you can still get tagged.

I would sugest you to go scout for quiet low sec area and avoid crowded low-sec system that are the direct route to trade hubs like amarr dodixie or jita.

I have contless planets setup all in low trafic low sec
and I try to not make a big cargo move on satarday afternoon..
and yes.. I fly a Iteron V in low sec with 2 warp core stab and I survived noob cruiser pirates many times.

you just have to scout with a frigate to see how is the trafic. and local..
then you zip trough with no delay warp jump warp jump warp jump.

There never used to be any KOS rules against Gallente FW pilots, however CVA has recently enlisted with the Amarr Militia so it might be an issue now, I would recommend joining CVA-Diplo channel and asking someone there for the current stance on it.
The Fourth District has no KOS rules again Galente Militia (even though we're a State loyal RP group) however if CVA policies have changed ours would have as well. Sorry I can't be much more help than that.

A couple of things.

Bookmarks are your friends, and while they'll take a little while to set up, they'll save you huge amounts of trouble later on. I suggest at least three per planet:
· One at maybe 1-2M km that you can warp to and do a quick, short-range (omni)directional scan and see anything currently visible around the planet.
· One at 200:ish km away from the actual customs office, so that you can get on-grid and look for yourself as a second step. This BM should be off-axis from any natural warp-in points — it should not line up with any celestials or stations or anything.
· One at 10km away from the customs office, again not in line with any normal warp-in points, nor in line with your 200k bookmark. In other words, do not use the “warp to within 10km” command — create your own.

Repeat the 200k and 10k as paranoia and time dictates/permits. For good measure, do the same to all other fixed installations you might want to visit (stations, gates, POSes). Once you're set up, never warp to anything in the overview — always use your bookmarks.

Next, a fun fact. Being decloaked by a static object such as a customs office happens at 2,000m. Your max access range to a customs office is 2,500m. The upshot of this is that you can warp cloaked in your Blockade Runner to the 10k bookmark, set your “keep at distance” to 2,400m and then manually adjust your speed so that you come to a gradual halt below your access range but still outside of decloaking range (setting it to ⅓–½ max speed should be enough to let the ship stop in time). You can then “blink” your cloak: uncloak, scoop the planet goo to your cago hold, recloak — you will be visible for all of 5 seconds, and unless someone is very deliberately watching/scanning during those 5 seconds, you will not be spotted. You can then move back to your 10k BM and warp away (this to ensure that aligning out doesn't accidentally makes the customs office uncloak you since you're already perilously close).

Oh, and certain PI interactions require you to be uncloaked, so you should be prepared to do those while in warp between safe spots. None of it takes very long, so once again, you should be able to uncloak, get things organised, and then recloak before you land at your next safe spot.

1. You can access a customs office from at least 10km away while cloaked
2. A Blockade Runner will usually align as fast as a frigate so it's nimble.
3. The only way you can ever get caught in a BR is by being a colossal dumbass.
4. You're in lowsec so you might actually be a colossal dumbass.
5. It should be impossible to lock you before you can decloak and cloak up again.
6. It should be highly improbable that a frigate can burn for you and decloak you in the time it takes you to align.
7. If you do jump into a bubble (lol lowsec has no bubbles) you can activate your cloak and MWD at once for one pulse of MWD while cloaked so that you can move enough to make a decloak from a frig extremely improbable while getting out of the bubble

The easiest way to get caught in a BR is via cloaky interdictors in nullsec and that can only happen if you don't know about it and aren't ready for it. Basically the tactic is to have a dictor cloaked on a gate, he waits for you to jump in, decloak, recloak and hit warp to. Between the time it takes you to click warp to and align he has decloaked himself and popped a bubble. The bubble cancels your warp and reduces your speed to zero and he burns straight at you for a decloak. He has to wait for his decloak targetting time to expire before he can lock you and start ripping you to pieces, but if you're unaware of the tactic or simply aren't paying attention to what's happening he can have enough time to pull it off and kill you.

I suppose the only thing that could catch you in lowsec are smartbombing battleships on the warpin point of the gate. In which case don't warp directly to gates, make a perch and don't be a dumbass.

I meant Prorator. Sorry about that. I corrected it.

1. Check the Customs Office.
2. Contact the CEO or a diplomat of the owning corporation.
3. Ask about a possible standings agreement.

If you don't pick planets owned by large nullsec blocks, but by smaller lowsec corps or hisec indy corps you are more likely to get a positive response. The downside is that these may change ownership more frequently. Friendly relations with the locals of a given lowsec system are just as valid a business tactic as looking at the price of stuff.

A prorator can fit 3x Warp Core Stabs if you want to play it safe. It would take more runs but is usually safer. Unless cloaky bombers have 2x Scrams fitted.

wormhole PI is best PI.

Basically, you live in there, or your PI alts do. You let your PI goods stack up for as long as you can take it, and then you scan your way out to k-space, and start hauling it all out. Return to the WH before the static/chain closes (or scan your way back out with an alt that you've left in system if it collapses behind you. Always leave a scanning alt in the WH) and repeat.