Crime & Punishment

I love C&P.

This thread, my goodness.

Not to nitpick verbiage, but what could be more interactive than a gate camp?

If collaboration is the goal (and I think it is the foundation of fun) we need more gate camps. I like gate camps. I like looking at them and interacting with them. I enjoy being in gate camps. Overall, I think gate camps are fantastic.

I can't remember the last time I found a non-interactive gate camp. I haven't played much in a while, but this didn't used to be an issue.
Mo

I'm pretty sure that's petition-able. No matter how you look at it, that's a defective gate camp.

I would be totally intimidated by you... Especially now that I've been rejected by Marmite and the Holysheet1 corp(even though I said I liked his face piercings).

Still trying to be the star of Perkone.
Mo

Yea we all suck. Go figure.

But honourable PvP!

I would agree that failing to avoid a clearly impossible fight that can easily be avoided (your scout sees it coming) would make their FC really bad at their job.

But not real PvP, amiright?

While you probably won't see this post, I'll try to reply seriously.

First, what standard fit combat ships are you flying? Most MWD fit cruisers can burn back to the gate moderately safely, as can most ships with oversized prop mods, though this is a little riskier.

Steps when encountering a gate camp:
1. Don't panic.
2. Hold gate cloak and look around for a bit. Observe where their tackle ships are located. Check for logistics or Ewar on field. If you decloak now, and attempt to warp, what are the chances you will be caught? If you burn away from the gate, align and attempt to kill their tackle, do you have a chance of warping off? Can you make it back to the gate?
3. Create a plan of action based on the previous questions.
4. Execute. Move to either A, B, or C below based on the plan chosen.
4a. Decloak and warp off. Good job, they didn't have enough sensor boosters, and you aligned too quickly. Or maybe their tackle was out of position. If you didn't survive, suck it up and get a new ship.
4b. Decloak, align to a celestial, and try to pick off any tackle in range. This usually depends on having a anti-support ship such as a nomen or caracal, and hoping that your enemies don't have a super tanked keres with logi support. Trying this in a lightly tanked frigate will not work against most camps.
4c. Crash the gate. Click on the gate. Hit appproach. Within 1 server tick (second) of your ship declocking, shift click and then normal click your microwarpdrive. If you do this right, your MWD will activate immediately after decloaking. Cross your fingers and pray. Hopefully you will reach the gate alive. Pay attention to who attacks you. Those people will have weapons timers. If you are in a frigate or destroyer, you might get away with jumping the gate immediately and attempting to warp. In slower ships you will want to split their forces by jumping after they attack, so some of their fleet can't follow. You can keep crashing the gate looking for an oppurtunity to execute either A or B above.

As for removing gate camps, well, screw that. Yes they are an annoying choke point, but they've been here for 12 years, and are an integral part of the game.

If they are not utter morons they will have instalock + ranged web/scram (Arazu and Ashimmu are popular for these purposes).

Fit all the nanos you want, it won't matter.

If it's a half ass gate camp you can probably warp off or burn back to gate before they wake up.