EVE New Citizens Q&A

I haven t played for 3 years so basically I forgot everything.

I would like to build a skill set and ship to be able to sneak and avoid people trying to kill me as much as possible and just do exploration and move around. What skill set and ship + gear would you recommend I focus on?

I want to avoid being raped by people trying to get a easy kill (since I am a noob). Is there a way to play fill defense and be able to jump away without being locked down etc even if you never fight and just have means to escape.

Please let me know if that is possible and what tactics would you recommend

Thanks in advance

A covops ship gets a bonus to many of the exploration professions, although it is usually ineffective at combat.

There is no such thing as a ship that can always evade hostiles. Covops do a very good job, as they can warp while cloaked. A bubble will prevent them from warping, and even pull them out of warp away from their destination if they don't take precautions. This means they have vulnerabilities that may result in your doom. The Asteros is a moderately expensive combat centers exploration ship with bonuses similar to Covops.

Once you have the isk and skills, you can utilize a Strategic Cruiser. With the right subsystems, it too can warp cloaked, and also can be "interdiction nullified" to ingore the effects of bubbles. That makes these ships very hard to catch when you are moving about.

Truth be told though, all of these ships are potentially vulnerable to targeted warp disruption, where if someone surprises you at a site, they may tackle you and kill you. You can try to fit warp core stabs to still get away, and this will work often, but it isn't a 100% sure thing.

With a cloaking module cloak, if anything comes within 2.000 m you are automatically decloaked because of proximity factors.
If you are target locked by anybody, you can't cloak.
You can't activate any module while cloak is active.


So there are ways to decloak you.
There will be people utilizing the above to hunt you.

If you are in a covert ship, you jump through a gate suddenly find a gate camp itching to blast your ship, you can still live.
1.) Don't Panic. You have 60 seconds of gate cloak, so take that time to find a celestial that you can align to that takes you away from the gate.

2.) Hit "Align To". Do not hit warp to, but hit align to. If you hit warp to, and they put up a bubble, your ship Stops moving. If you hit align to, and they put up a bubble, your ship keeps moving.

3.) After hitting align to, immediately hit your cloak device (once). Make sure 10 seconds have passed since you entered system before doing this, as if you do it immediately, it is possible you'll still have a cloak reactivation delay that prevents your cloak.

4.) After hitting your cloak, immediately hit your microwarp drive. This actually increases your align time every so slowly, but makes your ship fastly move away from where the hostiles on grid last saw you. This makes it harder for them to decloak you, and allows you to get away more quickly.

5.) As your ship is speeding towards that celestial you chose to align to, hit warp. If you are in a bubble, hit warp as soon as you clear the bubble. Hell, spam warp as you are leaving the bubble, and you'll warp as soon as you reach the edge.

6.) If you really don't think you can escape the bubbled area without getting decloaked, perform the same procedures as steps 1-5, but align toward the gate you just came in from. And as they power to decloak you, spam the MWD button so you start mwding to the gate as soon as you become decloak. Once you are at the gate, jump through back to "safety".




This isn't completely true. After you cloak you have a 2 second window to activate modules on your ship (DCU's, Hardeners, and most commonly, a microwarp). However, after about 2 seconds, your ship is considered fully cloaked and you can no longer activate modules (and those that are activated will turn off after their cycle ends).