EVE New Citizens Q&A

Blockade runners are great for null and if you know how to fly them and evade bubble camps your chances are very good. Fit for agility and don't warp gate to gate if there are others in local, getting caught by a drag/catch bubble and decloaked by junk is probably going to be your biggest threat. And use an inty to make tacticals and safe spots along your regular routes.

If you need to go to hisec from null, the safest way is through w-space. It is typically about 6 jumps from anywhere with a wormhole to hisec.

The Minmatar Prowler can fit a probe launcher and a cloak, but scouting the route first in a probing ship (preferably a Strategic Cruiser setup for probing + covert + interdiction nullifier) is a lot easier and faster.

It is very risky to go through null without a scout, and though less so in w-space it is still a good idea to have a scout.

Once in w-space, I've moved a freighter through w-space ... with a scout(s) of course. An Orca is easier though (can cloak, probe, warp in 10 seconds, and access more wormholes).

Many nulsec entities have bridge networks through their territory, lowsec staging towers, and can arrange a titan bridge into lowsec if necessary.

It seems harsh to me to state that, as it implies they are not useful at all.

It is more of how much ISK are you willing to gamble? Lose one scout, or lose a load of cargo?

I have a friend that always throws caution to the wind. He gets away with stuff that IMHO no sane person should risk doing. However, every once in a while he does get caught (example: AFK in hisec with >20 billion ISK of cargo in a freighter), and it is usually a very expensive loss, but he shrugs it off and accepts that as the cost of getting away with it the rest of the time.

Or you could ask someone in your corp / alliance to assist you. Just a random thought though, but isn't the whole being in a corp / alliance the idea of playing together instead of solo?

How would we do that?

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The only thing thats gonna stop a blockade runner is a bubble and fast ships to decloak you.

Most people do quite well using normal transports, a mwd and a cloak. Even in null.

Ask your CFC buddies to setup a fake gatecamp for you to break through. Keep doing it till you're good at evading them and they're good at catching you. Both of you will gain knowledge and experience.

Remember these 2 rules:

1. When you see other dudes, relax. You have 30 seconds. Check range on hostiles. If they're withing 2500m, youre gonna get decloaked. Unless they're in really slow ships, you're screwed. If they're not withing 2500m, you got about 28 seconds left now.

2. What is out there? Where are these guys located? In what direction do you need to burn out of the bubble compared to where you and they are? Go there and activate your cloak and then your mwd. Then change direction a bit. Burn out of the bubble cloaked and warp off.
Dont warp to the next gate btw. Warp to a celestial and start D-scanning your next gate. If there's only 2 gates, they might go there, hoping to catch you. Leaving the original gate unattended. Free exit and a way to determine a new route.

That all being said; you're in null. You will lose ships. Sometimes with juicy cargo. It happens.

Point 1. First the gate cloak is 60 seconds. Second a gate cloak cannot be decloaked by proximity, you will remain cloaked for the full 60 seconds if you remain stationary. Only after transitioning to your onboard cloak, will proximity decloak you. However, most things that are out 12kms from the gate are probably orbiting, pick your time to change cloak based on the best combination of ranges your attackers reach.

Point 2. Pick the direction you are going to burn before you drop the gate cloak. After recloaking do NOT "change direction a bit". Your attackers are not going to see which direction you are going. They will see you briefly appear and then disappear and then burn for that spot. If you change direction, you are going to slow down and then back track and will more likely still be within 2000m of the spot you decloaked at when your attackers get there, thus more likely to be decloaked.