Warfare & Tactics

Blame chatgris. He cheats.

Meh.... I always viewed logging off as somehow poor sportsmanship.

Bouncing between safes is generally a good way to go.

When making "new" safes, warp to moons (assuming your in a ship that can warp out before a pos can lock you), customs offices, and belt clusters. Planets are too obvious.

If you see a combat probe ON GRID, it means the enemy has already been to that safe.

Don't warp to stuff at zero.... warp to it at 70 or 100 km's.

You need max skills and virtue implant set to probe down an eccmed t3. Otherwise you will have a very hard time scanning them down.

This removes 99% of combat probers out there.

Depending on the prober's skills and your sig, there are a lot of variables to account for. Personally, I assume that all probers I encounter have max skills (RL and in game) and that they're actively looking for me in particular. Many probers will use a deep space probe to get an idea of where you are in the system without getting their combat probes into your d-scan range. Then they zero in on you with the combat probes, working their way in on your location as close as possible before their probes are on your d-scan. If you have a large enough sig, they don't have to get very close to you to get 100% hit. It would probably be safer not to assume "i won't run until its XX AU away" unless you're in one of those 'mostly' unprobeable ships.

Before you begin running sites/missions/whatever in a potentially hostile system, you shoud setup a nice bunch of safes. You can never really have too many and they're easy to make. Consider warping between the two most distant celestials and making as many safes as possible before you land. Then, when you have to run from a prober, warp to the first safe in the line, and continue warping to the next and the next etc. The time it will take you to get back into warp will be minimal, since your alignment is exactly the same. If you setup multiple lines you can keep moving indefinitely like that. It's unlikely they'll probe out one of the safe's, but if they do you won't be coming back to it any time soon. If they just won't leave and docking, jumping out of system, pos'ing up, or cloaking aren't viable options, when you get to the last safe in the line(s) warp back to the first (or some other safe or distant spot) and log out while you're still in warp. Its not the best solution if there are hordes of probers and you're in a fat, slow ship, but your odds of successfully emergency warping before you're probed out are pretty good.

I begin to drain my own cap in every way I can, then start half ass warping around making new safespots till I pull myself together and actually get on top of the situation.

1) Go to a random object in space, a safe or w/e.
2) Align to something else non-obvious. Go full speed, if you can run a prop mod forever, do so.
3) Warp at a random range to the non-obvious things (Bookmark, cluster of things, ya know whatever), if anyone warps to your grid.
4) Repeat Steps 1 though 4 as needed.

Any safespot within 2 AUs (4 if you're nasty) of anything in system is a bad safe, unless you're cloaked. In which case it simply doesn't matter. So best bet is to cloak up.

And that narrowing down with multiple probe scans thing is rubbish for combat probing. A good scan/prober will use d-scan to narrow you down, then drop probes right on your head for the one-shot lock.

I still miss the one-shot lock about half the time. Usually when the target is off the ecliptic.