EVE New Citizens Q&A

I think that boosters have been made legal now so the drugs can be freely imported/exported through highsec. I could be wrong but slaves might still be illegal in minmatar space.

Slaves are still illegal, and there are a few different ways to smuggle them. I am a slave trader, and I do this all the time. Avoiding customs fines is the most important part of transporting slaves for profit. A single fine will destroy your profits.

You need a blockade runner or covert ops capable ship. Even still, you're going to get fined a dozen times before you learn the best methods for jumping through stargates.

Cloak the instant you issue the jump/warp command to the next gate, but BE DECLOAKED by the time you land on your destination gate, and spam the jump command. Do this every time.

The reason for decloaking before your warp ends at the stargate is because if you land on it while cloaked, you remain stationary for a tick or two while automatically decloaking prior to jump, which is enough times for customs to scan you down. If they threaten to destroy your ship, just run. They won't point you if you cloak instantly :) You jump fastest using this method

That momentary delay is not caused by your cloak, it is simply a part of the warp to zero mechanic. Carefully set up book marks on gate you travel consistently and then warping to them can eliminate this momentary delay.


Before I go on with the rest I have not tested this in over a year, it may have changed so test first before you rely on this.
The gate will not force decloak you until your are 2,000 meters from it.
You can activate the gate once you reach 2,500 meters.
Activating jump and acceleration gates does not require the activation of a module on your ship so you can do this while cloaked.
With carefully set up book marks (yes it will take at least 2 for every gate) and some careful flying you can jump through gates without ever decloaking on the inbound side. The real question is it worth the time and effort fro the small advantage you gain.

now that boosters are legal the whole smuggling thing seems pretty meh vs npcs. All the illegal stuff was decided by ccp many years ago and aside from the booster changes I don't think much has been done. running trade routes in low/null sec seems to be a far more interesting thing like Iria Ahrens mentions.