EVE General Discussion

Use an athema? Can't spell it properly, it's the t2 magnate hull, or an astero( easier to get into but much pricier).

Well, according to your killboard you have lost 55mio in total, with the most expensive loss being around 20mio.

Most of those losses where in nullsec. In Nullsec warp disruption spheres are allowed, which means almost certain death for a T1 frig.
-> Don't go to null with a magnate.

Some losses where in low sec.
I guess the crow caught you in a site.... Don't hack sites if someone is on local and you don't know exactly what they are doing. People who live in low sec often scan down and bookmark data/relic sites and then come back in fast ships if they think someone has entered the site.
Also a Magnate shouldn't be caught in low sec at a gate, ever! Search for cloak+mwd trick on youtube.

No reason you can't take a t1 into 0.0.

Fit a regular cloak in high. If you jump into a camp cloak+mwd perpendicular to the gate (or back to the gate if a big camp). Wait until you have slowboated far enough away before you decloak and warp. You should not be warping into bubbles in the first place as you will be dscanning the gate from a nearby celestial or a perch made by dumping capacitor. Any bubbles put up after you enter warp will not affect you. Use dotlan and in game map to get statistics on obvious camped systems (usually bottleneck systems). While in the site you watch local for neutral coming in, you will be keeping at range >2000m from the can so you can cloak up instantly if they come in.

The reward/risk ratio of nullsec hacking justifies any losses you get in a t1 frigate in the few cases you completely derp.

Your problem is that your ship is easy to lock and kill. Covert ops is much more survivable.

Other then that, drop 2 warp core stabs and fit 2 inertia stabilizers. ability to warp out quickly is more important then a chance someone might put 4 points on you in less then 5 seconds.

Have you considered scanning out a wormhole to null-sec and bypassing gatecamps altogether? Use the shortcuts to your advantage, go though wormhole space.

Why would you say you don't want to get into the Tin Foil Hat stuff than Tin fol Hat your post lol. No one is cheating, it's just that other people know exactly what they are doing and do it every day, practice makes perfect.

And don't confuse random encounters for "every time i do X, they show up". That's a perception mistake like how people will say "I always catch the red lights when driving trough town". They don't always catch the red lights, it's just that our brains are hardwired to remember when something we don't like happens (red light when we are in a hurry) and ignore something when it goes our way 'like it's supposed to' (Green lights all the way through town).



To the OP, here is something you need to consider. you ask if there are better ways to make isk, you shouldn't be asking that because you obviously haven't mastered the way your doing it now yet. Thousands upon thousands of people play in low and null every day without dying. If you are dying, it means you have a lot to learn and/or skill for.

For example and as people above have said, you need to learn the MWD/Cloak trick. You need to improve your skills to the point where you are never in a site for very long. You need to pick space that isn't someone's hunting ground. And you need to control your emotions, frustration leads to sloppiness of quitting and can be deadly.

See each death as an opportunity and challenge to improve.

Blowing these up is always worth a smile.

I have taken that in to consideration. People look for patterns, it's what we do. My experience in EVE has been there is a pattern of people showing up in places at just the right time far too often for it to be a coincidence. Even if there is no meta exploit involved the content by design becomes gimmickry due to realistic, low success ratios.

If you want to make ISK, stay in high Sec, OP.
Null and low for a lone, single account are at best lottery conditions to get out with a pay day.

My guess is, you find it boring. That's the trade off to safe and secure ISK. Safe is boring but if you are broke, that's what you need to focus on.

Even with what I posted above you, this is the problem with Null and low.

What do I think happened? Someone came in to system 5 or 10 minutes earlier, left and might have even done it a few times. The OP wasn't destroyed, never saw anyone and assumed it was random traffic. It wasn't. He lost his ship because he didn't lose his ship if you understand what I am saying. He was given a false sense of security and it was planned.

It still applies my logic on null and low. As soon as someone comes through, you are done ratting or scanning and it happens almost immediately or it does for me. ISK making opportunities in low and Null are very short lived if you aren't behind an intell wall 5 systems deep.

It isn't about his ship or his fit. It's his choice in habit and decisions on content. He doesn't belong there and never will. NPC corp = spy in EVE. Go back to high sec.

I totally agree, if you are data or relic or even combat scannign in Low, you cloak as soon as someone comes in and D-Scan. You spam the D till you know who they are and what they are flying. If/when they leave, drop cloak and continue.
False senses of security get you killed.



This bit I dont agree with though

Just a bit of experience and training, and less rage/tears, and Im sure he would be fine.

I don't think that this is more shadowy than good intel and pre-scanned sites. I have gone 50 jumps in null without seeing another player.