EVE New Citizens Q&A

Stop missioning in low sec.

Your faction standings barely take a hit when you decline or fail a mission in FW. I decline missions regularly to cherry-pick the fastest ones and if someone shows up to rain on my parade I just warp off and head to the next one.

Spam your d-scan. You see probes there first. Any probes = cloack if you in Astero or warp out if you are in battleship. Remember, that shield tanked battleship is scanned down much faster, than cruisers like stratios or ishtar.

I've done missions in low sec as well as high sec and I'd say for the tiny increase in rewards it just isn't worth it if you are day tripping into low sec. If you live there though and it's mostly quiet then fine, mission away, but I wouldn't suggest anyone does this as an alternative to missioning in high sec.

Again, if you are in a low sec based corp then you might be able to run them with a corp mate, gives you a lot more options.

Know your mission and whether there is a mission objective that can be hijacked and ransomed back to you, you can use faction standings to multiple decline these and just take the ones that it doesn't matter if someone comes in to your mission deadspace.

Ideally if you are in low and want to run missions you would find some quiet system, the problem is that anyone in local could be hunting you.

Don't underestimate the capability of some random you see in low sec, I can tell by the wrecks on dscan, usually immediately, whether someone is running a mission, in many cases I can tell you what the mission is. So pop the wrecks as you make them, I would do this even in high sec and the same goes for ratting :)

At one time you used to be able to build an unprobeable T3, this is no longer the case but you can get something close, e.g.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=341072#post341072

you can't make your ship unprobeable but you can make it hard to probe, which gives you a bit of extra time to gtfo and get safe. Mobile depots might be useful as well, so you can swap fits about.

Don't use drones as they make you easier to probe out.

But actually protecting the mission deadspace, there isn't anything you can do about that as the potential hostiles will be scanning your ship down, not the site, or wrecks.

So you can do alot to make it very hard for someone who isn't rocking a full set of virtues but you are never completely safe.

Ok. So basically, cherry pick the easily blitzable missions or the ones with kill objectives where it doesn't matter what the pirates do when they don't find you in the mission anymore. I guess that makes sense as i agree that the main reason to do FW or low sec missions is for the LP and for LP blitzing is better than farming the wrecks.

Your ability to identify a mission through nothing else than D-scan is... unsettling. I certainly hope that is not the common norm for low sec roamers to be THAT dedicated or skilled.

Thanks for your insights.

Your tolerance for people asking legitimate questions in a Q&A forum, trying to become a better player, is admirable. Would you rather i make unreasonable demands of CCP to nerf high sec piracy? Or do you automatically KOS anyone who tries to avoid becoming prey regardless of how they do it?

He can not thrash your mission if he can not locate it. If you warp out before his scan result is 100 % he can not warp to your mission pocket. Remember that your mobile tractor unit IS scannable as well.

That's an understatement. It's actually a big bright neon sign that makes your mission A LOT easier to scan down. Plus mission flippers delight in suspect flagging themselves by blowing it up. I only had to lose one of those to learn it's better only to deploy it after i'm done with the mission and am cleaning up the wrecks and loot in my Noctis.

I hope you are wearing a blindfold then when engaging it. Don't want to upset the evil Pinata gods!

I'm not sure how common this problem is, really. As the type of person that would gladly scan down your mission and attack you, if I show up and you aren't there I'll probably just move on. I'm not going to mess around with mission objectives just to get a whack at your stealth bomber; I'll just go look for someone that actually wants to fight.

And I once spent an entire week stalking a Chimera pilot in a C2 so it's not about patience. The reward just doesn't merit the hassle. Unless I was really bored maybe (which to be fair is generally likely).