Ships & Modules

Well NPC aggro makes it harder.

But super fast warping, bubble immune inties make it easier.

Swings and roundabouts.

There was a bit of a golden age in ratter ganking back when Attack Battlecruisers were the ratting ship of choice; they were paper thin and barely capable of surviving the anomaly itself, their large guns couldn't track smaller targets at all, and the closest thing they had to a defense mechanism was a flight of light drones from the Talos. It probably also helped that the anomalies they ran had no frigate rats, so NPC aggro wouldn't have been too consequential for smaller gankers. You could kill them with pretty much anything, and Stealth Bombers were highly popular.

Nowadays, the typical ratter is a much, much harder target. Ravens and Dominixes (or Armageddons) are very popular and very difficult to kill. You're looking at weapon systems that are perfectly capable of applying damage to smaller targets, an MJD that lets them escape unless you close to scram range, and heavy neuts that ensure you probably don't want to go there. Your Vagabond isn't going to hold that down, much less your Taranis, and that's assuming they aren't just ratting aligned.

Deklein is filled with some easier targets in our Ishtars, but even those require pretty specific hardware to take down. A 100mn AB Cruiser with Heavy Drones will straight up kill a Bomber or close-range frigate without any player intervention (people coming back to the keyboard to find bomber wrecks in their anomalies was a regular occurrence until the hunters wised up), and the fits often include warp core stabilizers that will get them away from a long-point Cynabal or what have you.

current state: 95% of thinking and waiting, 5% action
and for solo anything other than a ceptor will die before you reach your destination

90% botters nowadays.

GL HF