EVE General Discussion

Cloak?

Fast Align?

High speed to get out of a bubble before they find you and decloak you?

Avoid gate camps.

I personally have stopped using gates all togeher.

Havent gotten stuck in a gatecamp since.

Stop flying.

Avoid gates, period.

Get a second account to scout the gates. Or renew trial accounts and do the same, altough the latter may be against the rules.

This would be one of the many ways to achieve that.

Learn where common chokepoints and current potential camps are:
- Use the in-game map and 'pilots in system within 30 minutes' and ship/pod kills per hour to plan your route accordingly.
- Use Dotlan for the same purpose, but with links to more information such as kills in system. You can see when and where gatecamps have occurred by checking recent kills in system.
- http://evemaps.dotlan.net/

Scout:
- Obviously this requires an alt account, or flying with buddies. Send in either a fast scout in an interceptor or other fast frigate, or just use a noob ship and noob alt.
- Roaming gangs will typically send in something small and fast to check out a system first. Not just to avoid gatecamps but also to assess possible engagements. Some people actually WANT to find a gatecamp to engage.

Scanning:
- if the out gate of the system you are currently in is too far away to scan then you won't know what ships are on that gate. You need to get within scan range either by warping to a celestial nearer to that gate, or by draining cap and warping only part way (look up scanning techniques).

Fly survivable ships:
- Haulers must have an mwd and cloak to have any chance of survival. Cloaking Transporters (Tech II) are near impossible to lose to a camp.
- Fast aligning ships like frigs and destroyers can get through most camps. Even if you have no chance of 'getting through', you can always try and burn back to the gate and possible escape that way.

Ultimately, there is never a guarantee of safety, and you just have to accept that sooner or later you will die, but you can do your best to make sure it happens as little as possible due to your own mistakes.

There is way more to it than this but blind jumping an Apoc into low sec is never a good idea. Keep on your toes!

Don't die.

Train up Evasive Maneuvering to Level IV if you haven't already, this helps with your align time.

Stay calm. if you jump into a gatecamp you have 60 seconds of jump cloak to work out the best route of escape.

If there are no bubbles and you are in a frigate, you can usually just select a celestial and warp to. They won't have the time to lock you before you warp unless they're using remote sensor boosters. I would suggest warping to a random range, in case they chase.

If there is a bubble, then you have two choices, burn back to gate and jump back through, or try and burn out of bubble. You need a Microwarp Drive fitted for these to work. Which one you choose depends on how close you are to the edge of the bubble. Use your 60 seconds to see which would be the quickest route.

Sometimes, with all your preparations, you'll still be out of luck. So if you know you're going to die, try and get your pod out. Spamming warp to a celestial while scrammed will pass along to your pod, so when your ship dies, your pod will instawarp there.

Finally, as has been already mentioned, get a scout. Also, don't fly anything bigger than a destroyer through lowsec/nullsec unscouted, because you *will* die eventually.