EVE General Discussion

Interesting info. The DST / BR combo is an interesting idea. Like everyone, I tend to have to stop at Jita and Amarr often.

Very cool idea! I will do exactly that.

Undock bumping is probably the only vulnerability then.

BR are also super fast in warp, mine will out run all but the most specialised interceptors.

If you picked your undocking BM correctly you can't get bumped when warping to it as you instantly enter warp.


The nonsense some people posted earlier in the thread with "ideas" is silly. You just need 3 things:

- well made undocking BM, for jita you can use can use the moon that 's in line when you undock (click shift alt x to show moon brackets, warp there, BM midwarp). for others you'll have to make one using an MWD frigate first

- use the AP to dock up instantly, if you fly a BR a whole lot it might help to create a BM while flying inside the station perimeter and use that as a warp to while having the station as destination. Reason is that very agile ships have a tendency to fall short on their warp meaning you still have to slowboat 1-2KM at times, this prevents that

- use your cloak correctly, in case of covert ops you can't really do it wrong. If not then use cloak/mwd trick, here's an old video of mine explaining it, it's outdated in many ways but still applies in terms of mechanics.

Well it works, zero ganks mate speaks for itself.

Battlecruiser(s) with +Armor or -Inertia command bursts? Not sure whether worth it.

All your points are good except for this one. By paying CODE for a "permit", you are not only legitimising CODE's supposed control, but, you are also funding their operations. Don't buy the permit from CODE, and if anyone suggests that you do. Then tell them to go **** themselves.

What is really required here is some common sense and proper caution. The best kind of escort is reconnaissance, and the best kind of fit is one which maximises tank and survivability. Don't bother with offensive modules, because by the time you've locked someone the battle is over. All you need to do is either evade the attack with an MWD + Cloak industrial, or have enough buffer tank to survive the attack before CONCORD intervenes.

With this in mind I can and often do escort valuable shipments with my corp. The best advice I can give is to only ever work with people you trust. Most gankers will rock raw DPS ships, and this usually means massive numbers of destroyers, and possibly cruisers or battlecruisers. So your escort needs to be geared to ships which can engage and eliminate those threats quickly. Usually our corporate escorts consist of some combination of Cruisers, Battlecruisers, and Logistics ships. With the only purpose of Logistic being to lock the VIP hauler and keep it alive.

Or course, the other route is to go for ECM, Sensor Damp, and Targeting disruption frigates. Though be mindful that if you enlist large numbers of Alpha EWAR pilots they could double cross you to CODE (as per my previous point - only ever work with people you trust). Also be aware that any ECM Burst modules used will most likely result in that ship being CONCORD'ed as well. So they should be mounted on a frigate as a form of suicide defence. Do not fit ECM burst to key damage dealing escorts, and for heaven's sake don't fit it to the hauler.

Dracvlad! Where have you been, brother?

Still giving poor advice to haulers, I see.

The ranks of AG must have really missed you.

I just returned to EVE after about a year and a half break. But. I see a possible method of using EVE's FTP Alpha clone **** up to advantage freighter pilots.

1. Make an Alpha clone account separate from your main.

2. Train up enough to fly a frigate with guns.

3. Have your Alpha account and your freighter account open at same time.

4. Move both ships to the same gate. ie: one entering Uedama

5. Jump frigate in and find something to start blasting at. This will bring Concord to the gate.

6. Once Concord arrives jump freighter through gate and warp to next gate.

Once Alpha clone has such a deplorable rating you can no longer fly in HiSec retire clone and create another one.

Don't know if this would work in practice ... But seems logical to me.