Amanda Mor
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.03.12 18:41:00 -
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 Originally by: KWyz
Last night at about 10 pm eve time i was going back to my base, passing through the losec shortcut I always take.
It's usually a quiet place, lots of people haul stuff through there(nothing too valuable,they're generally low sp players) and lots of people pass.
The only pvp-ers are the faction warfare guys, and those keep to themselves(I've never seen them camping a gate).
Unlike other times I jumped into lowsec from Orvolle, i noticed the gate being watched by more then the usual Velator or other newbie ship. Loading the system, I caught some guy in local saying "here comes a tengu" - my ship, covops fitted and with 4 inertia stabilisers in the low slots.
On the second jump there were between five and seven ships, cruiser and BS sized all waiting right next to the gate. I tried calming myself down while analizing the situation. The first thing that hit me was that the only celestials i could warp to were just behind my ship.
Warped to the next gate, cloaked the second i started moving and got away.
Lots of other people were not so fortunate.
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/Aubenall/kills
Now, none of the cruiser attempted to lock me in the couple of seconds it takes for the covops cloak to come fully in effect. However, looking at the kills in the system, I can clearly see that they managed to snag ships with smaller sig and higher agility than mine( AFs especially).
I'm going to put this succesful bypass of such a camp on luck. Maybe they just weren't paying attention.
Seeing as how they had a scripted HIC amongst them, aside from my current fit, is there anything I could to do maximize my chances of surviving such a camp? In a covops tengu. I'm asking this because all of a sudden i don't feel as safe going through low-sec anymore as I felt before.
Please bear with my noobness. One of the reasons I was going through at that hour is because...usually there are no people online at that time. Thank you in advance.
I was thinking the exact opposite in fact - the AF's were either incredibly unlucky, or stupid to have got caught, and you had at least two almost failsafe methods to escape the camp (one of which you used successfully, congrats).
Your other option, as mentioned, is to simply burn back to the gate - you'll gate a full cycle on your MWD, and will be back in jumping range before the cruisers do much damage to you, and likely before the BS's can even lock you (or shortly thereafter, again, not much damage). A strat. cruiser should have plenty of time to get back to the gate before 7 BS/cruisers can do significant damage to it's EHP buffer.
The few times I camp a gate, we generally ignore the frigates and speedier cruisers b/c they're going to get away anyway, especially if we're in Cruisers and BS's. It may be a different story if you have Inty's with you, but the camp you were in didn't. This didn't seem like a particularly "well-prepared" gate camp - it was searching for battleships and battlecruisers, not frigates and T3's.
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