Ships & Modules

Good afternoon,

I have been doing exploration in null sec lately in a Buzzard and for the most part, stay well hidden. However, on 2 occasions, I have been destroyed immediately after flying through a gate going back home. I get stuck in a Warp bubble and it is over for me even if I cloak up. The two solutions I have though are to store the loot in a mobile depot, then use a Combat ship to return and hopefully more safely take it home. The other option is to have a friend that started last week follow me around and take care of those issues, but he still have a while to train.

Finally to my question, What would be the best Combat ship to take out the gate campers? Thanks for any help.

This.

You're going to need 10 ships of your own, so bring a bowhead full of them. :)

Find a route in and out of null that's not permacamped. Move around at non-peak hours and during the week and you're less likely to hit a camp.

Hint: Lowsec to nullsec connections are much less likely to be 24/7 bubbled. Hi-sec to nullsec connections are deathtraps.

You can probably evade the camp by not warping directly from gate to gate, but warping trough a point off the line first. Bubbles only drag from warp lines that actually cross them, and if all goes wrong, people seldom have decloaking chaff arranged to perfectly cover all directions even if you do end up in the bubble, as long as you come from an uncommon direction.

A covert frigate with both an afterburner and a microwarpdrive is very very hard to catch. Use the microwarpdive to quickly pull range and to burn trough bubbles, and activate the (overheated) afterburner if someone warp scrambles you, thus disabling the MWD.

EDIT: Damn me for going with the flow and providing evasive solutions. The OP wants a combat ship, and a combat ship he should have! I recommend kiting cruisers, such as the Vagabond, Orthrus, Omen Navy Issue, several versios of t3 cruisers or any other ship that can be fit to go fast enough to be able to dictate range and thus fend off moderately sized groups. Piloting a kiting ship is very skill intensive for both the player and the character, but pays off if you master it.

Like people in the tread are saying, their are lots and lots of options. Using a combat ship isn't a bad idea, but it's not the most efficient. Evasion is cost effective :) .

One option is "Use a Tengu or other tech3 ship". A Tengu or other tech3 can do everything a Buzzard can + you can make it warp cloaked while being 100% immune to bubbles.

Another option is use a scout, either a friend or an alt who can tell you were bubbles are as you travel. Friends you have to pay, alts not so much lol.

You can also use wormholes to travel. Sometimes you get luck and get 'direct to empire (low sec or high sec)' wormholes, sometimes you get wormhole space and that can be dangerous too.

If you are in NPC null sec you can even dock in an npc station and contract loot to a reputable moving service./ Takes longer but near 100% safe.

Lots of things you can do, kudos to you for having enough balls to consider fighting back though, lots of people would have just given up in the face of opposition.

Interceptor with some cargo rigs should be able to carry anything your covert ops did.
If not, cloaky nullified T3

Null sec to low sec / high sec wormholes.

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You may want to check and see if mobile depo's can be scanned down, if they can.. you will loose all your loot. I know a MTU can be scanned down. If you do this, rather anchor a secure container in a safe spot, they can not be scanned down. Remember to anchor and put in password or it will disappear like a normal container.
When you ready to collected the loot, use a blockade runner or if its small amount interceptor or a T3. Can nfit a decent amount in a nullified cloaky T3 with expanded cargo holds.