Warfare & Tactics

There are no bubbles in low sec, only null and wormholes. And fit a microwarpdrive. When your warping out of a gate camp (or anywhere for that matter) immediately hit your MWD then cloak. I've been in and around lowsec for years with the same Viator. I've never used multi-spectrum ECM bursters and haven't been caught. Yet.

The only tricky part for you, running missions, is that you'll be frequenting the same stations. And leaving stations is where you're taking the biggest risk. Quick undock bookmarks will help but sooner or later people are going to remember you, particularly if your hitting the same stations multiple times a night.

'' I was talking about warp disruption field generators that surpress all warps within 16 Km of the ship. AFAIK, they can be used in heavy interdictors anywhere.''


Not in low sec they can.


''As I indicated, I am not worried about gate camps; only leaving the station after the courier missin is completed. Also, I said I was concerned about the situation where I did not have an insta warp bookmark yet. It takes 14 seconds to MWD to the station perimeter where I can turn on the cloak. Anybody waiting for me can get a lock in that time, even at MWD speed.

But with three inertial stabs, I can align any warp in just under five seconds, even a 180° alignment. If I can disrupt the lock for that five seconds, I am gone. Three T2 bursters should give me that, but I would like to be sure before I try it.''


Create some instant undock bookmarks. Burst ecm will hit the station and probably cause more harm than benefit.

As I said, I do that when possible. But I am concerned about the situation when I don't have a bookmark.

Null security space has no anchored gun emplacements on the stations or on the gates. In low security space stations and gates do have guns and will shoot you if you assault the station or go suspect. Those guns have perfect tracking and will make short work of a hauler.

Null security space is any space that has a 0.0(or less) security rating. I am assuming that you are talking about low security space which is space with a security rating or 0.4 to 0.1. In low security space area of effect warp disruption applications can not be used. Such things as the light interdictor's warp disruption probe and the heavy intirdictors bubble are unusable. You are only vulnerable to targeted warp disruption and scrambling. Other things that can not be used are bombs on stealth bombers and doomsdays on titans.

If you are using a blockade runner the only time you are likely to get caught is coming out of a station. This can be remedied with an instant undock. I recommend getting three instant undocks for each station you frequent and cloaking as you warp away from the station.

It is easy to set an instant undock. Get to the station when no one is active in the system and burn away from the undock in a straight line with a fast frigate. Once you are 400+km away set a bookmark and then do it a couple more times as you burn away, separating your bookmarks by about 50 km. To test these just warp back to the station, dock, and undock. You should be able to warp to one of your bookmarks near instantly as the inertia from your undock pushes you into warp.

Using an ecm burst on a station or gate will get you killed by the guns. I recommend a MWD. I hope this helps you.

Fly Smart,

Alric Rosenthal

Ohh, better far to live and die
Under the brave Black Flag I fly,
A Violent Declaration my part,
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.

Good to know. I thought it was like smartbombs -- a strictly high sec restriction. Saves me losing my Viator. Ty.




I know how to do the bookmarks and I always make them so long as nobody is lurking around the station. My problem is when I haven't done one yet and somebody is lurking. The MWD doesn't help getting out of the station; it is too far to the docking perimeter (roughly 14 seconds) before the cloak can go on. So I guess I will have to continue my current technique of redocking and AFK.

yeah, for one a frig with MWD is way faster than a shuttle and a certain frig is bonused for a certain type of mod that can break locks *hint hint* to confound an instalocker that might try to scram or web you before you're out of range. really though, it's a bit of a surprise for a frig to suddenly start booting away from station immediately after undocking, so even for an instalock ship the chances are good that even with sig bloom factored in you'll be out of scram and web range by the time they can activate modules on you.

T2 or T3 cruisers are mainly the ones to worry about since they can potentially instalock, tank sentry guns and have a sensor strength strong enough to disregard weaker ECM attacks

I'd personally reccomend a t2 damage control in the low slots, a warp stab and a single inertia stab.

I'd also fit a shield tank next to the mwd.

That way you should be able to survive for even 10 seconds against anything smaller than a battlecruiser (at least), if it's a single ship eyeing you.

When you undock from a station without an insta-undock, remember:

. To immediately ctrl-space and stop. This not only prevents you from drifting out of docking range, but also reduces alignment time for warp out.
. You have a 10s session change timer before you can redock if there are too many nasties
. You have a 30s invulnerability if you do not do anything else but stop the ship

So if it's just one baddie, cruiser or below, I would personally risk it (if you fit some tank as suggested) in this way:

. Undock
. Stop
. Wait 15 seconds
. Jump to gate
. Immediately activate dcu and overheated shield hardeners
. If you get shot at but not warp scrambled or bumped, your tank should hold until you warp
. If you get scrambled or bumped, redock immediately


Still, don't be lazy and make those insta-undocks first A fast frigate (atron, condor, slasher or executioneer) with just mwd and all overdrives in the lows is much cheaper than your br and has a very good chance of surviving, except against a sniper

If I'm being camped I just contract the transport for sale or courier if no rigs. Leave station in my pod and tell the campers "I'm rich *****!" and get back to playing. I like to think their balls become congested and blue.

When buddies are on and nearbty I'll contract transport to get it out of my hangar and undock/redock to get me a freebie ship and fit with covert cyno. Undock and start the party.

In short look at the situation as an opportunity to ruin someones day.

Ok few holes in that, nothing hard to iron out

1. No such thing as a bubble in low sec so dont worry about that
2. Transport ships have a default +2 strength this means 2 disruptors or 1 scrambler will not be enough to stop your warp, makes you safe against anyone running only a single of these but not against bumpers or when you jump a gate to a camp. even the cloak trick will be beat by an experienced pilot

Now for Blockade runners get one, you can rig it for agility and acceleration and use your lows for cargo if you choose, the ability to cloak while warp and align in under 4 seconds makes you extremely difficult to catch, it almost has to come down to really bad luck. the trade off is you lose that amazing 50,000m3 fleet bay and instead get around 12,000m3 so its a balancing act.

Ive used a blockade runner to farm standings for about 4 months now and its never even been threatened, but i took a bustard 6 jumps through lowsec with 2.3b in ships and fittings ( yes i was scouting ) and it was still nerve racking up until i entered warp to the station with local empty. NEVER AGAIN

Blockade runners are amazing so i say get one

As said, no bubbles outside of null. I wouldn't use ECM, better to be able to jump thru gates or dock.

MED is much faster until you're scrammed. Bigger camps are more likely to have someone close enough to you for it and smaller camps I rarely have trouble escaping with an AB burning back to gate.