For some reason the words intel and scouting sprang to mind while reading this post. Best defence against insta-lock gate camps is not to be there in the first place.

Before I begin, I am an avid hardcore PVP player, and I am not a carebear, but there is genuinly a problem that needs to be looked at..... Insta lock gate camps. It is just too easy to set up a 10 to 20 man insta lock gate camp in low sec to which a person has no defense whatsoever, and are pretty much assured to lose whatever ship they are flying AND their pod. Other then avoid low sec all together there is really nothing to do to defend yourself. Which eliminates many of eve's more fun elements like faction war. Its at the point where I am afraid to undock and do any faction war gameplay, in fear of some pirate griefing camp at a gate poding me. I have lost over 2 billion isk worth of ships and implants to gate camps in two weeks. I just flew through tama, and I kid you not, there were 31 frozen corpses at the gate from a gate camp. 31.... That's f'ing ridiculous.

We are not talking about pilot error, or strategy, there really genuinly is no defense when u have 20 insta lock thrashers sitting off a gate. Intel is not always good, or available, and it is not exactly reasonable to wait for intel before every jump in low sec. This is not some regular gate camp in which if u fly properly u can burn back to the gate, or align and warp off, we are talking about gate camps that can lock you and your pod instantly while eating dinner and sucking a lolly pop, then ruining your night. Come on guys, this is not pvp, this is pure griefing. Its one thing to set up a genuine gate camp, it's another to be able to exploit ships so easily so as to turn that gate camp into an impenetrable gate of doom for every ship who wonders by. This is not null sec where all bets are off, this is low sec, its ridiculous. Milita are the ones who are getting hit the most because pirates are having a field day griefing every ship that passes by in faction space. Its truly broken gameplay. Please fix this

Then you didnt bother to read my post because I covered both of those and how intel is not always accurate or available.

Hit the map button.

Select show pods killed last hour.

It's low sec if there's more than 1 or 2 thats a gatecamp.

But than you already know that being hardcore and all.

Before I begin, I am an avid hardcore PVP player, and I am not a carebear, but there is genuinly a problem that needs to be looked at..... Insta lock gate camps. It is just too easy to set up a 10 to 20 man insta lock gate camp in low sec to which a person has no defense whatsoever, and are pretty much assured to lose whatever ship they are flying AND their pod. Other then avoid low sec all together there is really nothing to do to defend yourself. Which eliminates many of eve's more fun elements like faction war. Its at the point where I am afraid to undock and do any faction war gameplay, in fear of some pirate griefing camp at a gate poding me. I have lost over 2 billion isk worth of ships and implants to gate camps in two weeks. I just flew through tama, and I kid you not, there were 31 frozen corpses at the gate from a gate camp. 31.... That's f'ing ridiculous.

We are not talking about pilot error, or strategy, there really genuinly is no defense when u have 20 insta lock thrashers sitting off a gate. Intel is not always good, or available, and it is not exactly reasonable to wait for intel before every jump in low sec. This is not some regular gate camp in which if u fly properly u can burn back to the gate, or align and warp off, we are talking about gate camps that can lock you and your pod instantly while eating dinner and sucking a lolly pop, then ruining your night. Come on guys, this is not pvp, this is pure griefing. Its one thing to set up a genuine gate camp, it's another to be able to exploit ships so easily so as to turn that gate camp into an impenetrable gate of doom for every ship who wonders by. This is not null sec where all bets are off, this is low sec, its ridiculous. Milita are the ones who are getting hit the most because pirates are having a field day griefing every ship that passes by in faction space. Its truly broken gameplay. Please fix this

Yep. And if jumping into Rancer, Tama, Amamake, [insert others] then just assume there is a camp on the other side no matter what the maps says.

Then you didnt bother to read my post because I covered both of those and how intel is not always accurate or available. Not to mention waiting for intel before every jump in low sec will take a loooong time to get anywhere.

Before I begin, I am an avid hardcore PVP player, and I am not a carebear, but there is genuinly a problem that needs to be looked at..... Insta lock gate camps.

For some reason the words intel and scouting sprang to mind while reading this post. Best defence against insta-lock gate camps is not to be there in the first place.

Solutions are: watch intel channels, scout, take a different route even if its 3x longer.