EVE General Discussion

Hey guys, I was wondering how much my ship needs to cost to make me a target for gankers in HS space where I mission. I'm currently flying a Navy Raven worth 1b (fit mainly faction and deadspace) so I was wondering what are the risks. I mainly mission in 0.7 and higher and all 7 mids I have I use on tank mods. I'm not planning on making my ship anymore expensive so I was wondering if I should bring some of my mods to T2 instead of faction or deadspace in order to reduce the chances of getting ganked. Also is there any precautions I should take to reduce my chances of death except from looking at D scan?

i think there's nothing more to cover, watch D-Scan, use T2 instead of blingy modules, maybe have someone to give you support in case of getting aggresed by gankers, of course, in terms of repairs, if you can tank more than what they can deal they will loose time that they could use to escape concord, i think.

oh an do missions in a low traffic system. that helps too. if anyone strange enters at least you will know its time to dock. specially if you're on a player corp since you could get wardecced and concord wont be there to protect you.

Step 1: Do not draw attention to yourself such as posting on the forums stating you fly a ship with expensive mods. You will get ganked, and it may just be for the fun of it and because you painted a target on yourself. You may think It would be hard to find you but a locator agent can tell people where you are within a half hour.

Step 2: Fly inconspicuously. Flying a Raven Navy Issue says i have spare risk but don't have the skills to fly a golem. It draws attention which may not be positive. Flying a normal Raven makes you look a little less like a target. Flying an Ishtar says... I'm a cheap date shoot someone else.

Step 3: Get away from crowded systems. Yes, the Sister's of Eve agent in Osmon is nice. She is a level 4 agent near Jita. Everyone knows of her and her system has 2 ice belts that help attract the wrong attention. You may want to switch to a more obscure agent. For example, Khanid Innovations which have a nice implant in the l.p. store and is way off the beaten path.

Step 4: think about your fit... If you are optimized to tank only one damage type and have holes, you make it easier to be ganked. Yes you may run missions a minute faster but is that trade-off worth the trouble? That is a personal call.

Step 5: Don't be stupid. Many mission runners are not yanked. Someone shoots their MTU in a frigate. The big bad battleship thinks it can beat the frigate, the frigate has friends and the BS dies. Don't shoot at people stealing your loot or MTU.

Step 6: Don't go AFK on a gate or in space with tanking mods off, especially in any system where there are gankers or crazy PvPers in the area. I know RvB ganked a few mission runners who went AFK in expensive ships.

Follow these steps and chances are, your mission ship will be fine.

Thank you all for the advice it certainly will help me :)

Depends what you fly
Depends if anyone knows what you fly or wants you dead for some reason
Or depends if you're just unlucky to come across someone that hanks missioners for sport

Also depends on the system you're running missions on, the highest the system sec the less probability someone will gank you

But to answer your question, yes there's missioners gankers and most of them are very good at what they do, so beware and don't let anyone know about your fit neither that you run missions.

A good rule I was taught early on is: Never fly more ship than you can afford to lose. If you can teach yourself to run the same missions in a battle cruiser you can have a back-up ship fitted and waiting for you should you lose one. I've run lvl4 missions in a Drake with success. It takes longer and you have to actually fly around to keep damage down, but it can be done and draws no attention. At least, I've never been bothered while doing it.

Staying in unpopulated space is a great piece of advice as well. If yer gonna fly solo, be a loner.

(edit) p.s. Never never never, and I mean never, publicly state you're using faction and deadspace mods. I mean it. Too late now I know, but seriously. Never.

Before they fixed it (if they fixed it), aggressive drones worked against the missioners and attacked the aggressors who shoot mtu's lots of lulz. Good times, I made sure my drones were passive =).

Watch local, d-scan, have a cloak fit and have a few safes set up. You will never get caught

The last sentence is nonsensical. You will get caught, at some point. Your concentration will slip, you'll make a mistake, someone will be faster than you, the lag gods will laugh at you. You'll get caught. You'll lose ships.

However, everything Sonya says is good advice to reduce that risk to an absolute minimum - and that is the bets you can do. There's no such thing as perfectly safe in Eve, as long as you're undocked.

The only people who care about your shiny mods are you, and gankers.

So you have to ask yourself, do you really need that extra 20 DPS the faction mod gives you? Do you really need the slightly higher shield rep that officer mod gives you?

If you are confident in your abilities to avoid being ganked, then by all means fit yourself up with epics and hope you don't end up like this guy.