Originally by: KWyz

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I'm writing this topic to warn all new players, or those who have somehow not been plagued in one way or another by this evil, out of the many in EVE.

Suicide ganking is real, and it can happen at any time you leave yourself exposed.
This is how the killboard of a professional suicide ganker looks like.

See how many ships he has taken down in the past few days, and be warned. He is not alone. They all use heavily buffer tanked ship, and eight large smartbombs of the cheapest kind. Once they catch news of a suitable prey on the way to their system, they wait for it at a gate, and engage the smartbombs once the target arrives. The smartbombs are not triggered all at once, but rather one after the other, so that if a ship is destroyed, the pilot's pod will be blown up almost immediately.

This is a danger not only for the targeted ship, but for any unfortunate bystanders. Small ships, pods, shuttles can all be obliterated like this. CONCORD will not respond in time to prevent the ganker from destroying such targets, and because smarbombs are not targeted weapons, jamming the ship that activates them has no effect whatsoever on its damage output.

I myself was not familliar with this type of ganking until I was struck by this two days in a row. I got away the first time thanks to my assault frigate's high resists on the smartbomb's damage, but the second time I made the foolish mistake of going alt-tab for a jump and leaving the autopilot on. This was my scanning ship, a Heron. In it's cargo hold I had almost 40 mils worth of ammunition, OPEs, rigs and probes, stuff I had gathered for a wormhole trip. The ship was also fitted with a Sister's core probe launcher. In all, I had more than 100 mil isk of damage done to me, also losing clone implants.

Take this as a warning. Be careful how you thread, especially close to Jita.Do not expose yourselves like I did. Use sturdy ships for your trips, or warp to 0 every time. Do not carry too much expensive cargo in unprotected ships. NEVER travel to Jita in your pod.
Good luck to you all, fly safe.

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