Tau Cabalander
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.02.08 02:43:00 -
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I'm mainly a miner/industrialist, though I also do missions, and will group PvP to protect me corporation and its interests.
The first time my jetcan was flipped, I was really impressed. The cruiser used a MicroWarp drive to repeatedly knock my ship out of tractor beam range. I left the area and returned in an Industrial. As the thief was gone I reclaimed all my ore, returned to the station, and waited-out the aggression timer.
The second time my jetcan was flipped, I again returned to the station to get my Industrial. As I landed back on grid, I noticed another Industrial marked as a thief leaving the grid. He had taken a good amount of my ore, but not all of it. I reclaimed the rest of my ore, returned to the station, and waited-out the aggression timer.
I then left the system looking for a less busy system (fewer people in local than the number of asteroid belts). I found a 0.5 system where I happily mined away. I've never had a jetcan flipped again.
I now live in w-space which is 0.0 meaning anything goes. It isn't uncommon for me to play a game of cat and mouse (I'm usually the mouse) against potential gankers. I've come close to losing Hulks and an Orca, but to date this mouse hasn't lost.
I own a Charon freighter, and I frequently haul cargo worth about 1 billion or so through some of the most hisec-ganker infested gates in EVE. I've never been attacked, though I have been locked and scan several times.
I own a Crane Blockade Runner Transport, and I frequently go through lowsec as I take shortcuts to trade hubs. The only system on my avoid list is Rancer, as it is notorious for smartbomb gatecamps. Once after jumping through a gate, I came out in the middle of a large (20+ ships) all red gatecamp. When I went to cloak I got the message, something like: "You can't do that right now, as X's Heavy Interdictor is within 2,000 m". As there was no escape, I just made a run for it: I began to warp, activated my MWD and all my shield modules, overheated all my modules, and... I got clean away without ever getting locked.
I haven't yet lost a ship to another player. I've come really close though. Last time it was when I was PvPing and made the stupid mistake of warping into our own mobile warp disruptor bubble on a gate rather than to the scout 100 km off the gate. I got away with 96% structure, as I PvP in ECM boats (currently a Scorpion battleship). I learned my lesson and won't do that again!
Recently I did the Caldari epic arc solo, and one of the missions requires going into nulsec. The LAST gate was camped of course, so I simply waited them out while I made safe-spot bookmarks all over the system. They smack-talked me in local, but I just ignored them and never responded. Once they left, I waited some more expecting that they were just camping the other side of the gate. Sure enough they soon came back, smack-talked some more, and left again. After an hour I DECIDED TO RISK IT, and warped to the gate and jumped. The area was clear, so I warped to my destination, claimed my 40 million ISK mission reward, and returned to hisec unscathed.
So all I can say to the OP is that one of us must be playing EVE wrong.
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