Warfare & Tactics

Any one care to post some tactical navigation quirks..?

This can also go in the Market Trading School link if it is worth to trade the info...


I also just finally "found" some good tricks which I will try to post or trim down to keep some of the related secrets.

The thing is, I'm sure the enemies I manage to out-maneuver will figure out how I do it and inform their mates or other pirates.



(I reserve all rights or the right to translate into French or other language, depending...)

Lest the secret dies with me, I will post it here before I have to hire some dead to say it.


I managed to outmaneuver multiple bubbles at the gates.
Well, at least at one gate, and the gate I came from. (Which total 2 gates, depending at what time and in which chronology.)

Mind you, it doesn't work so well yet... Although it does indeed work.


It involved using the rookie ships to succeed.
Since you get a free rookie ship when you get killed, although you need a low sec station or NPC station, or one that "allows" you to dock at, or "entitles" you to dock at, you can do this.

The thing is, that when you approach the deployed or deploying bubble, you make use of the ingame location bookmarking function to manage to go around it.

You then chose warp at 100 km or other coordinate to get a second bookmark.
Once far enough, you move in the direction towards a far distance on the side, again to get a new bookmark, and safely warp to the gate.

It does take about 30 minutes to one hour, but with some practice, can be accomplished in less time.
This works on gate camp of 3 to 6 player versus 1.
I presume, from the test data gained that, it would work against 20 or more enemies.

Ducks fly together.

I build and sell packages of bookmarks. They’re mostly in nullsec, but I’ve also worked-up the hisec ‘Highways of Love’ collection (http://i.imgur.com/EVJfsJI.png). As a result, along with being a longtime w-space / nullsec denizen, I am fairly experienced in not getting killed while travelling through hostile space. In all the travel I’ve done in recent years, I have lost:
1. One ceptor to lowsec gate smartbombers – Only a few months ago. I had a perch, just did not use it;
2. One ceptor to a fast-locking gate camp – A really exceptional occurrence, props to them; and
3. One ceptor and one covops to forgetting to activate the cloak and going AFK – Idiot-factor prevails.

Once you have a perch bookmarked your ability to negotiate hostile gates is markedly improved … but a noobship is damn slow in warp, slow when burning ongrid, and also pretty slow to align-warp after you’ve jumped through the gate. A noobship also dies 99.9% of the time if there’s a dictor waiting for you on the other side.

I can’t remember when I last used a rookie ship other than as a cyno ship. For ‘taxi’ runs that do not involve jumpbridges I usually take an interceptor that is fitted out for align-warp speed and also has the ability to cloak (for when I want to go afk). For bookmark scouting and building I use either a burn-speed fit ‘ceptor (again with a cloak) or a cheetah. If my taxi-travels are likely to include jump-bridges I often choose a blockade runner for the space-AIDS protection it provides, or just take a ceptor and wait-out the timers.
A fit-out ceptor costs around 25M isk direct-from-market, less if you are able to efficiently self-build. That is not an awful of isk compared to the huge benfit it offers.

I am not alone in this. My bubble camping in hostile space sees the passage of approximately ten ceptors for each non-nullified ship. Yachts also get quite a lot of use for that purpose … safe passage through my bubbles. I recently tried to smartbomb (disco-rohk) a yacht and was unhappily surprised that he got through the gate safely. Perhaps just my fail as a disco-dood but frustrating all the same.

Never buy nullsec bookmarks from someone. It will end badly because you are most likely not the only one with those bookmarks.