EVE General Discussion

PREFACE: This is not a whine thread.

Tonight I forced myself to log off from EVE. The reason, you see, is that I am an explorer (Astero pilot) in null sec who got cornered.

I have taken a liking to Stain. Over the past few days I've made quite a handsome profit hacking cans there. Anyway, apparently I ticked off some of the locals. I was making my way through the region when it happened, BAM. I warp in, and as soon as I do, interdiction spheres are flying everywhere. I check local, 2 people. Decided to burn back to the gate since I was in the middle of the spheres. Pop MWD, activate reps, OVERHEAT, clench arse. Everything check.

I made it back to the other side. Thank God local was empty. I decided to duck into the nearest system to try and get away from them--little did I realize that it was a dead end. I arrive, one person in local. That person was in the same corp as the people who just tried to make me take the fresh clone express back to hisec. I sat there for a while and watched d-scan. That guy was in a Stratios. Soon he dropped combat probes. Alright, so he's in on it to. ****.

I twiddled my thumbs for a while then decided to make a break for it. Jumped, interdicted again. Ran back to gate, they got half way through armor. Warp to tactical and rep up. Now I'm back to twiddling my thumbs. These guys have got to **** off at some time, right? Wrong. Gave it a third try. Same result. This time I almost died.

There was an NPC station in system, so I just docked up and logged off.



The reason for me telling this story is to ask for advice. Is there anything, apart from a fiery death, that I could have done to escape this situation?

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The fact that you survived 3 times makes me wonder how good you are or how bad are them.

Astero is pretty tanky with dual reps. If they had had a third guy in an interceptor to sit on the opposite side of the gate, I'd have been toast. Thankfully the Stratios can't lock up frigates quickly, and the Stratios pilot didn't even try.

I was wondering this as well.

Worst case scenario you try logging in early in the morning or something when they are not online.

Try to time am escape shortly after down time?

You have a covert op cloak correct? Jump gate. Approach gate with MWD on. Cloak. Change direction and pray they don't get close enough. Try to fly out of the bubbles and then plot an escape from a safe point in that system.

don;t even need to do that, jump, click a random direction in space, mwd, immediatly hit F1. with practice you cna do it so fast they can;t lock you. even if they deploy the bubble by the time that first mwd cycle ends you should be clear.

Double click in a direction relatively perpendicular to what their approach vector to you would be, hit the cloak, hit the MWD. I've run dozens of far scarier camps in covops ships, which are significantly less nimble than an Astero.

Docking was a bad idea. There's not a lot of good reasons to telegraph your specific location like that on a cloaking ship.

I would do some research on the characters before you take a next step. If you can't recall their names (quite possible in the heat of the moment), have a look on zkillboard, you can put the solar system name into the search box.

Look up all the kills, it will default to most recent first. Identify these characters. Look at a few pages of kill / lossmails and look at the times to identify their probable timezone. Their corp. details may help as well (if it says aussie corp. as opposed to general fluff). Once you know when they are most likely to be around, you can time your escape for when they are asleep (may need to alarm clock for that if they are in the same tz as you).

Alternately, if you have jump clones in empire or low or anywhere really. Dock up, JC out and go about your business. Return another time to evac your stuff.

Everyone gets bored waiting for a kill. Trust me.

Just set an alarm for Ridiculous-O-Clock and try again. I'm sure you'll get out fine.