Cyprus Black
The Learning Curve.
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Posted - 2013.03.28 09:46:00 -
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Woah, that's a lot of text.
1) He was probably new to suicide ganking and didn't do a very good job of it.
2) I honestly don't know. The new crime watch mechanics still confuse me a little. I just stay in lowsec and shoot anyone who tries to shoot me.
3) Players who commit such acts are no longer allowed to warp away after the crime in the hopes of avoiding Concord. There was a brief time where a player could gank another, warp away, gank another person, warp away, and attempt again before Concord could catch them. Now players who attempt to gank cannot leave the grid until Concord deals with them proper.
4) Should have yes probably. Another player must have scooped the loot.
5) The person who scooped the loot also must've scooped your drones as well. As for having a partner, it's impossible to know for sure unless you ask him.
6) There are MANY methods to prevent an attack like that from happening again, many of which go unheeded.
a) Move away from high traffic areas. They're hotbeds for gankers. Stay away from trade routes and such as well. You're trading the comfort of being so close to a trade hub for safety. A good trade off in my opinion.
b) Fit a tank on your ship and give special attention to your EM resistance. Mining barges and exumers are intended to be shield tanking ships. As such they can be a tad weak on EM resistances. A decent ganker would look at what resistances these ships are weakest against and come packing ammo specific to exploit that weakness. With the recent rebalance of barges and exumers, they can carry quite a strong tank. The irony is that so many miners neglect to fit a tank then come crying on the forums about how often they're getting ganked. A decent tank buys you precious seconds you need for Concord to arrive.
c) Assuming you left high population areas, become familiar with destroyer ship names (the most common ship used in ganking) and become familiar with how to use your directional scanner. If you see one of these ships on d-scan, it's time to align to safety. If this ship warps in on your location, you're already aligned and ready to bolt.
d) Stay far away from highsec systems that have ice belts. They're hotbeds for bot miners and always attract gankers.
e) Don't mine right next to the spot you warp in at zero in the belt. Asteroid belts are often in the shape of a half moon, with the warp to zero spot in the center. If you position yourself at one of the two corners, it could buy you some time to get out if you need it.
f) Orbit the asteroid you're mining or one near it. A moving target ALWAYS takes less damage from attacks then a stationary target. Sometimes that difference is negligible but it is still a difference and any advantage you can get over would-be gankers is always good.
7) See point six.
8) See point six.
9) Did you manually upload it yourself to battleclinic? It's not done automatically by the EvE client. Either you have to or your would-be ganker has to and I doubt he'll upload his own loss.
10) We only know his fitting based on what you've told us. And of what you shown us, no that's not a very good fitting for suicide ganking. Not terrible, but certainly room for improvement.
11) Possibly. I'm still not completely familiar with how crime watch works.
12) Yes Concord does respond quicker when they're close. Some miners will start up a throwaway trial account, bring in a newbie alt into their system and have that alt commit a crime that would bring Concord into the belt. I'm not sure if CCP has dubbed that an exploit or not. I can't see how it could be stopped.
-Since Concord has left the belt, the response time is back to what it is normally in that system.
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