EVE General Discussion

It's fairly easy. I am a 6 year veteran and I have never been successfully ganked.

The first and by far the most important defence is never to go AFK while you're in space, and most especially dont ever AFK autopilot anything more valuable than an empty noobships in a clone with no implants. If you need to go AFK, dock up. If it's an emergency, close the client to log off.

The second most important defence is situational awareness. Look out for suspicious activity like groups of minmatar ships (high-alpha artillery is a favourite gank weapon) clustering at gates or station undocks. Remember that every pilot in the system who is not a confirmed friendly (ie: in your corp or alliance) is a possible threat. Treat them as actively hostile and you will not go far wrong.

The third defence is correctly fitting your ships. Always fit some kind of tank. Get in the habit of activating your hardeners and damage controls. Top up your shields when warping away from that mission you just completed.

Also very important is choosing the right ship for the job. Do you need to haul the tags and meta 4 loot from a week of successful missioning? Well don't put your half a billion ISK worth of goodies in a paper-thin, incredibly slow cheap T1 hauler. If you can use a Blockade Runner, get one of those - they're virtually invulnerable in hi-sec, and pretty safe in lo-sec if you pilot them properly.

Can't use a BR? Then use a supertanked Drake (2 Large shield extenders, 2 invulns, EM hardener, Therm hardeners, Damage control, 3 power diags, 3 shield extender rigs) to move the high value density stuff, and just use the Badger II for trash loot. But seriously: skill up for blockade runners. They're awesome, and you can fit 3 giant secure containers in a fully expanded Viator or Prorator.

You ganked Pipa Porto. Custom solution is?

I don't agree with doing that. Ganking is a mini profession like ninja looting and scamming.

They are nasty but they make EvE... EvE. They also constantly remind you how the world has plenty of nutsacks but that's just didactic value.

What should happen is to bring meaningful :consequences: in the Game Of Consequences.

Bounties are not a factor as they can be circumvented.
Sec status is a non factor as well, as it's circumvented by just reshipping in space.
Ship loss is a non factor because the whole point of the miniprofession is to make a profit despite the ship loss, plus added casualty tears.

Maybe the new Crimewatch will be an answer to the above.
Maybe they should just assign kill rights not on the gank alt but on the top SP character in the basket of accounts the ganker uses, identified by sub payment data. That would cause some hilarious :consequences:

Nice necro…

Oh, it took the better part of an evening to do, even though I had help on some. Surprisingly, the part that added the most time was finding systems with a nice spread, but which were still close enough together that you could travel between them in a reasonable amount of time (travel being an excellent thing to spend the GCC timer on if you do it in a pod) and to find and/or plant stuff in those systems that could be used to trigger CONCORD. It seems that the sisi mirrors don't copy things like POSes and anchored cans, which would otherwise be handy and ubiquitous, so for many of the systems, I had to go on a second (or third) visit to either drop jetcans or to anchor something that the other character(s) could shoot.

Doesn't surprise me — it would have taken another two evenings to re-test everything rigorously with CONCORD constantly being spawned in two locations for every test. If you have any more precise data to leak, I'd be happy to amend it…

shakes head.... So much learning you need......I will be watching C&P for your post about losing a pod in Hi sec because someone "stupid" blew you up for lolz.

WTF is this post you mad or what a well fit frigate can easly make the ganker a bad day. Noob perhaps? dude?

He mostly meant, as a new player, you aren't ******** enough yet, for the goons to want to gank you. Past that other players do cargo scan checks to see how much your fit is worth, then if it is enough to make profit on, suicide gank ya. Past that, people are bored and try to pick any gank they can get.

Nah.