EVE General Discussion

Keep in mind, nothing can make you 100% gank proof. Just truce chances of a successful one.

If a person (or people) really want to ruin your day there's not much you can do to stop them entirely.

Get out of highsec.

Regarding hauling:

EDIT: Tiny stuff (200 m3 or so) --> Covops

Small stuff (10,000 m3 or so) --> Blockade runner

Medium stuff (60,000 m3 or so) --> Deep Space Transport, super stabbed for lowsec, super tanked for highsec

Big stuff --> In Highsec, Red Frog. In lowsec, Jump Freighter. For the highsec jumps of the JF, use bulkeads and always stay in 0.8 and above. If I'm not mistaken, it's extremely difficult to suicide gank a triple bulkhead JF in 0.8 and above. Plus, as suggested, have an emergency cyno ready to jump out if you're bumped but not pointed.

I was going to say there's no such thing as suicide ganking outside of highsec, but then I remembered how we once killed an enemy Naglfar minutes before downtime in ABCs knowing their frigate fleet was going to warp in on us and tear us to shreds.

If you have the skills to survive a suicide gank, you might as well not be playing in high-sec.

Make friends. Get out of your comfort zone. Go somewhere else where everyone works together to keep each other (relatively) safe.

Be a worse target than someone else.
If you can see an obvious scam contract (e.g. 100m reward, 5bn collateral, goes through Uedama), wait for someone to pick it up.. And then go along. If you're not carrying a lot of stuff, they're not going to want to risk waiting out the 15m timer and losing that 5bn contract.
Or you can have your alt scan freighters (and orcas) going through the chokepoint for a better target and go in after that one.

The only thing you need against suicide gankers is to not be worth ganking to begin with. It's not really hard.

For mining use skiffs with a damage control and a full shield tank on mid slots and you will get ignored for easier targets. Doesn't really matter if you're AFK at this point. For haulers all you need to do is either keep your cargo low enough and the hauler tanked enough to survive a few tornados, or use a blockade runner with bookmarks. If you are carrying high value low volume cargo just use an instawarp interceptor with instadocks/undocks and you are virtually uncatchable in highsec (brick tanked 400k+ ehp T3 covert cruisers are also an option). If you have large amounts of cargo and no safe transportation just make public contracts with a sufficient collateral and let someone else take the risk for you. Don't autopilot because it's a pointless feature.

- Missions: Blue fittings are not suitable for missions. A Blue fit Golem is gank bait.
I don't necessarily agree with this. You can (on some things) can a decent increase in tank for a pretty small price increase.

- Hauling: Know that people flapping about how they blow up all Blockade runners because stuff, are full of it.
Not all of them. If you have the ISK and you're bored af, you might as well kill a few haulers, and since you're doing it for the lols, no reason not to attack BRs.

- Mining: Plag and Veld are the ore that make money right now.
I agree with Plag (specifically Rich plag because +10%) but Veldspar? I suppose it's alright isk wise, but (not including high-yield versions), omber is the only thing worse than Veldspar in highsec at Jita prices.

- Mining: Gankers are lazy that way. If they wanted to work for their ISK they would be mining beside you.
Did you put a joke in here? You can't really count mining as "work".

- Final points: Last but not least, if you find yourself being pestered by people all too often, leave the game drop your sub and play something else. EVE the game you would like it to be won't be EVE the game we get stuck with because someone else is in a mood. That needs to be relayed in the most influential way possible when required and money talks.

Right. So, you want to make highsec safe. And ruin other peoples gameplay? Some people actually like suicide ganking and ruining peoples days. And no, they don't have to be sick twisted 'insert word of choice' pedophiles that fap to kiddy porn all day to enjor being the villain. They can't do it in real life, and maybe they've always dreamed of playing the villain and ruining some peoples days, and eve allows them to do that. (I take this argument seriously because it's a stupid one. Eve is a sandbox. If you want a themepark, there are other games that allow you to mine alone.)

TL;DR
Hauling - People will, if they have the ISK to burn and are bored.
Mining1(oreprices) - Omber is the only highsec ore worse than Veldspar.
Mining2(ganking) - Mining isn't work.
Final points - It's a sandbox, taking away highsec suicide ganking is ruining what some people like to do.

*Snip* Removed reply to a deleted post. ISD Ezwal.

- use neutral incognito hauling alts, some bored gankers will gank you for tears/giggles and simply because of your alliance tag
- dont autopilot
- dont haul too much value
- use transport ships (hello, 55.000m³ fleet hangar) whenever possible and utilize cloak-mwd trick to move unseen
- a dedicated webbing alt in dualweb daredevil in 0.5 systems where you pass is useful too as its where most ganks happen, a webbing escort is even better, if you can afford that (multiboxing)
- avoid hauling stuff during prime times or on weekends, pre-DT or short post-DT are optimal times

Citation needed.