EVE New Citizens Q&A

Lately there has been something of a surge of ganking in high security space, often including the tactic of bumping the target (to keep them from escaping) while ransoming them for a hefty sum. After losing one of my own ships to this sort of attack, I wrote a quick guide to one of the ways to get out of such a ransom situation:

http://www.thewholefrigate.com/2015/01/psa-bumped-before-gank-safe-log-off.html (tl;dr: use the "safe log off" and keep them talking while it ticks down)

This is good for newbies and veterans alike; from the people i have talked to, it is not an especially obvious solution to the situation. I hope this helps you folks not lose ships or ransom money! Also I hope it helps forum warriors have an extra response to "this is so unfair, there was nothing I could do against those mean gankers!"

Cheers!

Yep. That's the advantage of safe log-off. As I said, the situation in which you're being bumped and ransomed is already an extremely bad situation, and this is just a mitigating tactic that might work. If the gankers up their game and forget ransoming you, or aggress you with a noobship, you're still in trouble.

I will have another blog post soon about how to not get into the troublesome situation in the first place.

Or dont be there as a target in the first place.

So...never undock?

That's a little counterproductive and not much fun. Unless you are a station trader, of course.

Anyway, good PSA. A last ditch strategy that not many know about. If it saves one freighter, it was worth the time to write that blog.

Mr Epeen

You cannot be targeted while "safe logging". Unless this was changed recently and I have yet experienced this. The point is, a ganker that knows what he is doing will just lock you and bump you until catalysts land. A lot of the suggestions the "anti-ganker" groups make are all based from human error.

but it is so much easier to sit here and complain on the forums!

but to be useful, remember to fit a tank, and don't leave big resistance holes, although probably worth it for a little extra kin/therm resists as blasters seem to be a preferred gank weapon these days.

I'm all for deliberate obtusion being used to create entertainment, just not in noob land. They are confused enough without adding in sarcasm detection requirements.

The failure of this is, it's trivial for another person to abort the safe logoff. Bumpers who know what they're doing will tag you with a shot from a newbie ship.

At that point, you can't safe logoff. From the wiki:



So, newbies, just remember this "defense" isn't a sure thing, and us gankers have known how to stop it for a long while.


Really though, the best defense is to be prepared. If I have the choice between gunning down an anti-tanked freighter, and hitting a tanked one, I'll pick untanked any day. You don't have to be the fastest gazelle on the savannah, you just have to be faster than the slowest one.

So you tag it with a rookie ship and bring concord on grid. Well we can pull concord off the grid you say yes but by that time the aggression timer is gone and a new safe log attempt is possible. Its a good trick to **** off those gankers lol +1

take an orca alt around and refit bulkheads and laugh as u see the horribly underestimate your hp