Crime & Punishment

As CEO of one of the smallest but most dedicated Anti-Ganking corps in EVE, I have made it my mission, my raison d'etre, to giving industrialists a fighting chance to survive and prosper in this fractious universe. After months of carefully studying both human and signal intelligence, engaging in research and development, and numerous instances of trial and error, I have prepared this handy guide to keeping your industrial operations safe from New Eden's greatest nuisances.

I've just lost my ship to a CODE attack. I'm so angry! What do I do?

Firstly, don't bother filing any kind of petition to CCP. Sadly, CODE and their allies are exploiting a loophole in the game's rules that states griefing is allowed, so long as the activity is profitable. Your petition will likely be ignored outright.

Secondly, don't bother trying to talk with the ganker, you'll only be setting yourself up for more woe. New Order (CODE and co.) agents will show you absolutely no sympathy, as they are utterly convinced that their cause is just despite their rampantly hypocritical and psychopathic behaviour. Your agony and heartbreak will be met with a condescending "calm down miner" and repeated demands for purchase of a 'permit'. If the exchange becomes particularly heated, they may take the issue further and threaten your cop with a wardec. DO NOT CONTACT YOUR ASSAILANT AND DEFINITELY DO NOT PAY THEM. New Order agents will revoke a permit at the slightest pretext (sometimes under no pretext at all), and there is no real appeals process. Any isk you give them - and whatever they destroy and steal from you upon permit revocation - will be gone. It's not worth 10mil.

Finally, you need to critically evaluate the circumstances under which you were attacked. What ship did you use, and what fit? What system were you in? What were you doing at the time? Taking a few simple precautions, such as those listed below, will render the New Order's methods useless against you. You'll never have to pay them again.

How do I prevent a gank in high security space? I thought we were supposed to be safe!

As CCP have repeatedly stated, no area in the EVE universe is completely safe. You are expected to remain vigilant and look out for yourself and/or your companions in fleet. Mining or hauling AFK is not advised. If you have to leave your computer to do something, do it quickly. Avoid using autopilot unless you know the route is safe. Make sure your haulers/freighters are fitted for maximum protection. If you have to haul cargo between regions, use a blockade runner, deep space transport or jump freighter if you are able.

If you have a Tech I freighter, make sure it is fitted with bulkhead modules, and NOTHING ELSE. "But I wanted more cargo space" is not going to save you from the gate campers waiting in the next system. Be sensible, and fit properly.

Blockade runners work best when fitted with warp accelerators and a covert ops cloak.

Deep space transports are trickier to protect against gankers, but a well-fit DST is worth the cost.

If you can't use any T2 ships, the best thing to do is fill your hauler's low slots with warp core stabilizers, allowing you to avoid being tackled.

If you're a miner capable of using mining barges, my corp has developed Procurer fits with combined ECM/shield tank for use against not only suicide ganks in hisec, but against pirates in lowsec. By using ewar to shut down a ganker's targeting scanners, you can buy yourself precious seconds to recall your drones and warp to safety. Training the Frequency Modulation and Long Distance Jamming skills will increase the effectiveness of these setups.

Anti-Ganking Procurer T1
Procurer
2x Strip Miner I
4x Multispectral ECM I
1x Photonic Upgraded Co-Processor
1x Compulsive Signal Distortion Amplifier I
3x Medium Core Defense Field Extender I

Anti-Ganking Procurer T2
Procurer
2x Modulated Strip Miner II
4x Multispectral ECM II
1x Co-Processor II
1x Signal Distortion Amplifier II
3x Medium Core Defense Field Extender I or II

Location is important, too. Keep a close eye on CODE activity in your region and mine in systems with the least activity. They prefer 'bottleneck' systems with high ore concentrations like Uedama, Niarja and Madirmilire. Check the 'Highsec' filter on zkillboard to get listings of recent and earlier kills in hisec systems and you can start to see patterns of activity. Of course, if you wanted to avoid them entirely, there are many lowsec systems that see very little traffic. My alt can spend days mining jaspet and hemorphite in low and see hardly anyone.

I'm sorry to say, but it's not a loophole, not griefing and is, from posts by CCP, desired play.

And after reading the whole post, I feel I just said the same but shorter. Are you suggesting using a heavily tanked mining vessel, or even leaving Higsec? That agenda is too familiar to me.

Admit it, you are an Agent too!

So, you're tryin' to make miners THINK and LEARN. You may be surprised to know that CODE do exactly the same thing.

...and that's where the thread is goin' to die.

Tldr version
1) move more than 8 jumps from the major trade hubs and shipping routes. Particularly Jita
2) tank your ship
3) pay attention to local and warp out when hostiles enter
4) move to null sec

The Code always wins.

If they gank you and you die, they win. (Obviously)
If they gank you and you live, they win. (They still had fun trying)
If you mine less dangerously after getting ganked, they win. (Less people doing boring gameplay)
If you don't mine less dangerously after getting ganked, they win. (More targets for them)
If you counter-gank them and fail, they win. (Less people doing boring gameplay)
If you counter-gank them and succeed, they win. (Less people doing boring gameplay)

The Code isn't about ganking miners, it's about Code members having fun and encouraging people to play in a less boring manner. It's an idea, not a corporation or an alliance, and ideas are notoriously hard to defeat.

DISCLAIMER: I have never been a CODE. member and I only very rarely suicide gank.


(Yes, I realize that there is a lot of other political and financial stuff involved with most aspects of ganking, but if you're speaking of The Code in it's purest sense, my above post is accurate.)

You'd think so, but there are plenty of less new players who still keep making the same stupid mistakes. If they won't shape up after reading the OP, there's no hope for them.



Even by EVE standards, It's a crappy game mechanic, it's cruel and encourages psychopathic behaviour.



No, it doesn't. AFK is discouraged, but nowhere does the guide say "don't be AFK ever". Also, as James 315 himself has pointed out, pure tank won't save you. Even if this guide did exhibit some aspects of the Code (it doesn't, lrn2reading comprehension), it still opposes the New Order and discourages people from giving any money to them.

True, and thats part of the EVE Experence.

As CCP Falcon has stated in the past :

I personally love that the OP starts out complaining that Its an exploit and ccp is complicit to the fact. Despite mountains of evidence and statements from all sides to the contrary. But then in the second part (where the only real advice is) it sums up to "Follow the Code, just don't pay up

Don't be afk.
Don't go untanked.
Be social and be aware.

Yup clearly OP is advocating code compliance without giving proper attribution.