2. Keep your attack drones deployed and set for aggressive. Anything that attacks them or you and is within your drone control range will be attacked by them.

3. In two years of living in low-sec I have never encountered a warp disrupting rat in a belt. Those I have encountered in null-sec though are pathetically easy to kill with drones alone (they orbit at 5km so you have no excuse to not target them either).

4. Get a logi ship or two to make the most of the Procuror's tank.

5. A Skiff is a mining ship... not a general purpose industrial PvE ship. Why should it have salvagers? Even Hulks and Mackinaws can't fit them.

6. Why do you need mobile labs in low-sec? Just use the stations. They are just as good as high-sec (even better because there are fewer people fighting for them).

Mining barges are designed to have an escort. Not protect themselves. Recruit some peeps to live in your lowsec system with you to rat and run anoms. They can then protect you whilst your mining by warping in and killing the rats or the people who come to kill you.

The ship you're looking to fly will be released with Retribution this winter. The Ore Mining Frigate is designed to do exactly what you're doing.

This seems to be the case in high sec PVE (drones auto aggroing NPCs)....but [my] drones twice failed to aggro NPC's that were targeting me earlier this evening...even after several minutes and bringing them back into the bay and putting them out again. I'm guessing they couldn't aggro due to the dampening somehow.

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I wish I would have recorded this evening. We had one rat that was warp scramming at around 18km range or at least tryign to. I think the drones couldn't target him.

I try to minimize use of alts....doesn't seem to be a fair way to play.

... in my case....there isn't a lab in low sec anywhere nearby in my region..the nearest is 8 jumps in highsec. Of course, there are routes to other regions and there may be some stations that are closer that way...but those are more shady areas that I don't want to risk moving my bpo's in and out of. There is also just the silly point that some of us want to build our own bases and be self sufficient..I only leave my pos system to haul back/forth to highsec and even then I limit to the lowest traffic periods of the day. So, with a pos in lowsec, I might end up having to do any research in high sec....fine, not happy with it, but a small high sec research pos shouldn't be that expensive.

I'll also make the quick point that mining is mind numbingly boring.....in high sec, one copes with this by doing other work in different screens and checking status every minute -- with a warp stab in low sec and without a cloak, one now has to do nothing but watch the local channel for an hour or two straight and little else with the mouse finger ready at any point to quickly click warp back to pos in under 2-3 seconds. How droll when some bonus warp stability would make it easier to take the eyes off the screen for 30 seconds at a time....oh well.

I'd much rather just see warp stabs 'fixed' to the point where they can actually be used in a ship built for anything other than avoiding being tackled.
The targetting range penalty is currently crazy. Since you already are giving up tank/dps/yield/cargo when you fit it onto a ship. So they already have a downside.

Removing that penalty, or making it considerably smaller would go a much longer way towards making viable low sec builds, and see a lot more people in low sec running Warp stabs instead of DPS slots on their ships probably. Which would make the low sec pirates happier since they have more targets now that their targets feel like they have a chance. (Real or not, that is the perception of low sec that you go into it you die).

Maybe a velocity penalty the same as cargo rigs could replace it, maybe an armour penalty, maybe it doesn't even need a penalty as the use of the slot for a one off event is enough of a penalty. (Given ECCM as the equivalent 'if you don't fight ECM its a wasted slot')