EVE New Citizens Q&A

I tried ratting in caldari space in a rifter.

Instead of killing them, they jammed me preventing me from targeting anything and forced me to leave after flying around being able to do nothing.

I fitted some improvements to my sensors but it didn't work. If I wanted sensor booster I, i'd have to give up some of my tank so......any advice?

I've taken to ratting in my Venture via drones so....yeah, it sucks a bit, but it works.

Read this EVE University guide, scroll down to "Countering ECM: Electronic Counter Counter-Measures (ECCM)" for a list of modules and skills you can install / train to reduce the effectiveness of jamming on yourself.

Unfortunately, you're being jammed by NPC pirates, and the scripts that the NPC's use are optimized to not put a lot of load on the EVE servers, which means that:

1. The NPC's cheat and have much higher jamming strength, so the skills and modules won't help that much.
2. NPC's don't coordinate (fairly) so if the mission has 4-5 frigates that COULD jam you, they'll all jam you, and end up chain-jamming you.

You need to figure out which NPCs jam you and take those out ASAP. If you manage to lock or get your drones out and set them to aggressive BEFORE the NPCs jam you, they'll go after them even after you're jammed.

Are you Alpha or Omega?

Train up your targeting skills.if you haven't done that yet, it will help you resist sensor jamming.

Auto Targeting System. It's a high slot active module that will try to get a target lock on any ship that is hostile to you and is inside your targeting range.
Sensor Amplifier. It's a low slot passive module that makes your ship's normal sensors stronger and more resistant to jamming.

Both of these modules should be useable by Alphas and have low minimum skill requirements.

An alternative is auto-target light missiles, but I'm not sure an Alpha can train into those.

Auto-target missiles do not require you to get or keep a sensor lock on a target, BUT the target MUST be doing something hostile to you for auto-target missiles to work. Auto-target missiles will attack any ship that is doing something hostile to you even if you have not locked it as a target. The down side is that auto-target missiles do less damage than normal missiles of the same size/type AND if you have several hostile ships inside your missile range that you have not locked, the missiles will decide for themselves which ship they will attack.

If you have locked a ship as a target, you can fire auto-target missiles at it just like any other type of missile.

Auto-target missiles are only available as light, heavy and cruise missiles. There are no auto-target versions of rockets, heavy assault missiles or torpedos. Auto-target missiles can be fired from the normal version of the missile launcher (light, heavy or cruise missile launcher).

A Rifter is not the best missile frigate from Minmatar, it can only fit two missile launchers. A Breacher would be a better choice for a missile ship, it can fit three missile launchers and has four mid slots so you could fit a stronger shield tank to it.

One other option is to not try ratting NPC's that jam your sensors, such as Serpentis and Guristas rats. Both of them are known to use sensor EWAR.

Both Caldari and Minmatar have the largest limitations for ships that carry drones. The Slasher and Rifter cannot carry/use drones at all. Out of the Minmatar frigates an Alpha can use, the Probe can handle the most drones but the Probe is a specialised exploration ship and should be used for ratting fairly carefully. The two Minmatar destroyers also cannot use drones at all.

You start getting some reasonable drone options for Minmatar at the cruiser level, but Minmatar combat cruisers are somewhat specialised in terms of which types of weapons work well on them and how to fly them to make the most of their weapons. The Stabber is a fast and agile cruiser that is normally used with autocannon. The Rupture cruiser is more suited to long range artillery. The Belicose is the main missile cruiser for Minmatar with the Scythe Fleet Issue also having missile capabilities. All of these cruisers have drone capabilities.

There is one battlecruiser that any Alpha can fly, the Gnosis. This ship can be fitted with any weapon system in the game and has moderate drone capabilities.

You need to look for mid (better) and lowslot modules increasing your sensor strength also the sensor compensation skills help.

Countering Ewar from Uniwiki

Frigates are easy to jam due to low sensor strength and Gurista npcs are notoriously annoying, if you fight against npcs with ewar, make sure you note which ones are the jamming ones and kill them asap.
Also Minmatar ships have lowers sensor strengths from all races afaik.