EVE New Citizens Q&A

More and more I am seeing random abandoned containers around low sec gates. For awhile I was confused why a random container would just be chilling out in low sec with no one else in system but I am thinking it is left over from a gate camp. My thinking was they would be containers out to force decloak.

Is this correct?

Most likely, especially if there are large amounts of them.

If it is just one or two, it could be stuff that was abandoned due to full cargo holds and loot drops that were better than what was in the cargo.

I've also seen snipers use them. I'm not exactly sure what they do with them but I think it has something to do with being aligned with something that can be both click on in the selected item window as well as warped to while remaining on grid.

They could also be used as bait. For example someone could hang out near one but away from the gate. This gives an attacker a warp to that is nearish to the player in question. Once you warp to the container to engage the player you are now out of jump range of the gate and his friends can now come help without too much worry of gate games. Or at least I've seen them used that way in null sec so I am assuming the same thing could happen in low.