EVE General Discussion

This thread is so 2005.

http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=201647

Yes and because these campers never camp coke points that people have to go thru. Sometimes it doesn’t matter how skilled or how well prepared you may be or even in cov ops chance's are at some point or time you may get caught.

High value things I always use a scout. Not everyone has a second account much less 5 or more. I feel the op may be looking for a reasonable counter to insta locking gate camps other than go around which can’t always be done.

I would not be opposed to something like a probe you could send thru the gate. I know the gate campers would hate such a idea but when you think about it a scout is no different than a probe.

This would be more cost effective than maybe losing a cov ops or a another type of frig just to provide Intel.

There are many player-driven options to this problem without asking for nerfs...

1) Fit inertia stabilizers (better than nano for raw align times). i.e. Two inertia stabs & two nanofibers on a Punisher get its align to 1.9s for example.
2) Fit a cloak, MWD and learn cloak/MWD trick
3) Have someone in a cepter or frigate with 1 and 2 above fit scout you in
4) Refit once at desto to remove the stabs/nano's/cloak, or carry a mobile depot if NPC station not available
5) Added: Train evasive manuevers

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No we want you to accept that EVE content is player driven and even if you set out to do FW when you logged in, surprise surprise, something else - something player driven - just might divert you a little (or a lot). If you like grinding along established grinding pathways then feel free to go play one of those games.

Unfortunately the people saying this are being outweighed by the people who think a lack of forced pvp is taking the fun out of the game. Look at all the interceptor whine threads.

Fortunately CCP doesn't seem to want to change them back, so inty's with warp stabilizers are the best way to travel now.

Oh crap a gatecamp
You got me baby
But I'll reship now
And pew you maybe

I want to apologize for the community that so callously disregarded your real complaint with fake answers and half-solutions.

It is clear, from reading this whole terrible thread, that your complaint is very specific: "It is not fair that I can't get my combat-fit Merlin through an instalocking gate camp."

Of course you don't want any solutions that require you to use a different ship (reshipping is hard), or different fittings (refitting is hard); likewise, you aren't looking for solutions that would require you to have friends who can scout for you (social is hard), or have to use intelligence tools like maps (evaluating data is hard), open conversations (again, that whole social thing) or intel channels (finding them is, you guessed it, so hard). And it would be absurd to ask you to improve your skills as a pilot (HARD) when this is clearly an insurmountable obstacle.

Let me be the first to agree with you and say, unequivocally, that a poorly fit-for-travel-but-combat-ready Merlin that has no friends and sub-par piloting skills and refuses to burn back to the gate will always, 100% die to an instalock gate camp that knows what it is doing.

EVE is clearly broken. The best solution would be a Merlin-only lowslot module that not only increases your DPS by 40%, but makes you unlockable for 2 minutes after each session change. That way you don't have to compromise on your fit and can still ignore everyone else in EVE (including gate camps) with ease as you are on your way to all that sweet, sweet frigate faction warfare.

OP, read my signature, every subcapilal ship can do it. Problem solved.

No, you can't do stuff in low sec because there is nothing to do here. I would stay in hi sec if i were you. More isk opportunities, more people to interact with, more belts, more anoms, more of everything. And much better!! Thousands of people can't be wrong, just think about it.

cause then one couldn't be caught?

if you can't fight on gate, tell me how do you catch one warping from gate to gate?

this would make travel way too safe, and don't answer bubble, thee are no bubble in low, fight opportunities are already scarce enought, reducing them is not the way to go.

anyway, this idea is dumb, and for the work thingy, it actually require way more work to catch a fast warper than it is to avoid a get camp...