Wormholes

aggressive scouting and closing extraneous holes is your best solution.

Alternatively, get gud

So what you are saying is
"Getting ganked is inevitable, you can just hope you can run as many sites as possible before that happens so you can sustain the losses"

Did I get this right?

I could roll with this.


Since you went through all the great pain of typing that search into google and then plugging it into an url shortener you could have just expended the energy to link an article on the subject.

This way you only painted yourself as a jerk to the eyes of everyone and generally wasted everyone's time.

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Anyway thanks for the advice guys, I'll study the provided material and try to improve!

Getting ganked is indeed inevitable. They will come cloaked and find you. When they are bigger in numbers, they will uncloak and attack you. Some even attack with less or even numbers. Even "getting gud" doesn't help much against a fleet several times your size.

If you are in an anomaly (combat or ore) you are quite easy to find. They can just warp cloaked and look for you. Actually you will have to get lucky and hit dscan the very second they switch from jump cloak to regular cloak and the wh-entrance has to be in reach of your scanners.

If you are in a signature (data, relic, gas), they will need to put out probes to find you. Then you will have a better chance of being warned. However, the experts won't need long to scan you down.

Therefore always have a scanning alt logged at your pos, so you will be able to find a way back in in case you are podded.

Alright, I've had a few beers, it's nearly christmas, so here's some hard truth for you people posting in this thread:
You don't get ganked because it's inevitable, you get ganked because you are worse at the game than the people ganking you.

It is in now way inevitable to get ganked in wspace and the people who tell you it is are either bad at the game themselves or want you to believe it is 'just part of life' in wspace so that they can continue ganking people like you.

Few notes on the specific situation in OP:
- you said a bubbler warped on grid. this means youre either not paying enough attention to dscan, new sigs, dont have scouts or more than likely all of the above.
- did you have a contingency plan in case this happened? i doubt it. you were in BCs, did you have micro jump drives fit, or a mobile depot deployed to fit them, or stabs, when you had to bail?
- learn how to roll holes. it isnt hard, the mass information is widely available, do the maths.

Realistically, most people have been bad at the game at some point which sometimes leads to them getting ganked. hell, ive sat an afk plex fit tengu on a jita gate for a few hours before, that ended predictably too.
However, it's definitely possible to get better at the game and learn how to avoid ganks.
Think about what you need to do to not get ganked. Take precautions, be aware of your connections and sigs, have a contingency plan.

Ultimately, the best way to learn how to defend yourself from ganks is to learn go to gank other people doing the things you do.
This will teach you what to watch for, what timeframes you have to get out is ect. Most of all, it will get you out actually PVPing which is far better than any sort of PVE you might be into.

I go where I please and please where I go.

Yes, we had some very bad lapses in our attention, for one people kept forgetting to dscan even though I reminded them.
We were running a site in our own home system, a scout could have seen us preparing at the POS for all I know.

We also ran an anomaly even though I assumed we were in a safer signature, I would not run anomalies personally due to that but I didn't know since somebody else did the boomarking.

I did take a refitting depot but all I had in my cargo were only warp core stabilizers, kind of useless in this case but I will carry an mwd and an afterburner next time, thanks for the tip.

Next time I shall be a little more prepared and even though I will probably do many more mystakes I won't certainly repeat the most egregious ones (we actually lost the post a short time later due to a completely unrelated incident involving corp theft, can't be safe even at home).

Thanks everyone so far, I'd love to hear more about the subject by expert players and please tell about your past failures, I think that reading other stories of failure can be a great learning experience

correct me if im wrong, if u warp to a nu sig u trigger spawn timer... hence the don't warp there. i know it doesn't spawn immediately, but it still triggers timer for random spawning after set time (this can be short in lower class wh).

"Although K162 signatures will not appear as soon as a player warps to them (as they do currently), they will have a random chance to appear every several minutes once the wormhole connection has less than 15 hours of natural lifetime remaining."

source: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/into-the-known-unknowns/?_ga=1.92057306.1108661856.1389644451

i'd say ignore this at your own peril but vov

1) C4 have a fairly balanced mixture of 16 / 24hr holes (not most)
2) true if you have a C5 / C6 static, all the others are 16hrs
3) ahem, i think u mean 16hrs. so if u warp there u have one hr

damn u for making me check, but merry xmas anyway <3

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