EVE New Citizens Q&A

So it would be:

A - align
F1 - cloak
ALT+1 - MWD
wait for MWD cycle to accelerate speed to help warping next...
F1 - decloak
D - warp

Right?

58.1634% confident.

seriously though, if you are using the cloak+mwd trick, the only thing that will get you in lowsec is a well organized gate camp. these are rarely seen in lowsec, except in systems like Tama, which connect a busy lowsec region with an even busier region in hisec.

in particular, the things that will kill you are:
- sensor boosted fast locking ships (they will lock and warp scramble you in the few seconds that the cloak needs to activate)
- disco battleships (battleships that use large smartbombs to uncloak anything in a 6km radius)
- fast moving frigates with swarms of drones around them. (they will try to quickly fly to where you are to uncloak you).

there is no reliable way to get out of this kind of camp alive, other than scouting ahead or using less common entries into lowsec. nullsec has even greater problems waiting for you, which you should read up on once you get used to living in dangerous space.

Just use an instant-undock bookmark since you're already at speed.

When you undock, you are invulnerable to anything (including bumping) for 30 seconds, unless you do something other than stop your ship.

10 seconds is the session change timer, that needs to end before you can redock.

So if you undock with baddies around just to have a looksie, stop your ship and wait 15 seconds before pressing 'dock'.

you don't need the cloak+mwd trick on your crane because you can fit a covops cloak which lets you to warp cloaked and does not have a speed penalty.


but the cloak+mwd is useful on ships that cant fit covops

Lots of good info on the "how", wanted to provide some information on the "why" side of your question. You are correct that in high security space you are warping gate to gate (NOT auto pilot) and are fairly safe. Suicide gank squads are going to have a very hard time catching you. They have to get set up on the gate (and not die if they are low enough security status), hope one of them is in range to catch you as soon as you decloak, tackle you before you warp off, burn all their ships into DPS range, and break your tank before CONCORD shows up to destroy all of them. All of that taking place is pretty unlikely.

On the flip side, high sec war declaration corps camping a well known travel route are far more likely. These corporations work like this. They usually pick corporations that live in high security space to declare war on via in game mechanics (ie wardecs). Once they have done this, they can engage their war targets even in high security space without fear of CONCORD. The war dec corps then get into high end PvP ships (T2, T3 Cruisers, Etc) with at least one typically having a very fast lock time (natural / module enhanced). They then sit on the gates of the well known travel routes / near you and wait to pick off pilots in your corporation one at a time as said pilots jump through the camped gate. The trick is to point the pilot that just jumped through the gate as they align and before they can warp. Then blow them up. The high sec wardec corps know that there is relatively little risk on their part unless the high sec corporation that is targeted can get together a strong PvP response.

So if your corp is not currently under a warp declaration, you have relatively little to fear warping directly gate to gate (again not on auto pilot). I am fairly certain that the starter NPC corporation can not be wardeced (can someone who knows these mechanics better confirm). So one option is to create a logistic pilot, leave them in the starter NPC corp, and use that pilot to move all your stuff around high sec (contract it to the pilot, move it, then contract it back to your main once its where you want to go) Also, pick travel routes that dont go through the most well traveled gates. You can set the map in EvE to show highest volume. Looking at that you can pick out the choke points in travel routes to the major trading hubs / mission hubs / etc. Its not really all that bad, you will be fine. Especially with the MWD cloak tip mentioned above.

I just read the first paragraph of Ethikos post above mine. Industrial hauling vessels are ganked far more than he makes out to be the case. Having said that the victims usually have overloaded their hold/s with very shiny things and so they deserve their lot.
The ones I see dying maybe autopiloting as well.

Essentially the victims for the most part bring it on themselves. Don't be one of those guys.

And by the way... So far... Looking on the map stats in advance, scouting with my little frigate alt, and doing instaundock and cloak+mwd trick, to tell you the truth, the most scary is:

Jita.

I've never, ever been killed using MWD+cloak trick properly and I do plenty of low/null hauling. The only time I've been killed, I was using too small of a MWD.

If you do it right, the only time you might get locked is right before and right after the cloak, but fitting out some warp core stabs will fix that.

When I'm hauling, for example, a couple hundred mil in PI goods through the popular gates in the Forge region, I tend to use MWD+cloak to be safe against pirates.