Infinity Ziona
Cloakers
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Posted - 2013.09.15 02:01:00 -
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Eeno Gaterau wrote:Coming back to eve after a few months off, due to becoming bored with 12 months missioning 4's in highsec. It became too easy. No adrenalin or excitement.
Going to try something new, see if it will hold my attention.
So I'm training up well in covert ops, and plan to head for null sec. I am fairly methodical and like to practice everything, untill I have it right.
For the last couple of weeks I have been doing roams around low sec, practicing my escape from gatecamps, setting safe points, uncloaking for a few seconds when I see probes out. Just playing cat and mouse. Have not been caught yet, and find it enjoyable. So I am happy with my progress in this.
Next is bubble camps. Now I cant practice on that without probably being podded a couple of dozen times before I get the hang of it.
So I have a few questions to try to at least have an idea of what it is like land in a bubble. And how best to escape it.
Am I right in thinking that my gate cloak minute will still apply in the bubble?
If I find myself in a bubble, and click align to moon, cloak- mwd , will I head in that direction, cloaked, through the bubble at align speed? and exit the bubble still cloaked?
Is it possible for there to be numerous bubbles set up at a gate?
If you are cloaked is there any way for them to know that you have entered or exited a bubble?
Can they just set off some bombs to catch you?
Or have a dozen quick drones moving in the bubble to decloak you?
Any other good tips or advice welcomed.
Sorry if they seem basic questions, as I said i was single minded about missioning untill now.
I'm a little cynical of EvE true however I pretty much only fly cloak ships and been spending a lot of time in null sec.
The other day I did a roam from Catch which is south of the map all the way north to the top of the map, drone regions, and then all the way east through Tenal, Venal, down to Goon space Fountain area and then got a wormhole to Delve and went over to PB, across to Stain... I didn't get killed and I was in a battleship for half the trip and a cloaky T3 the rest.
Ironically when I came back to empire I undocked in Amarr, which is a 1.0 system on my alt in a Cov Ops and got killed by two destroyers :)
The truth about null sec is the only time you'll really die to a gate camp is going in through the choke points. If you're in a cloaky you'll almost never die. I haven't been killed yet to a gate camp in one and I'm going through them a lot.
When you jump, if you're in a bubble you align, hit your mwd, cloak, change direction immediately and then slow boat out of bubble.
Alternatively, if you're in a less mobile ship, you head towards the gate rather than away from it. Most interceptors will burn to you and then in the direction away from the gate, by the time they do uncloak you you'll be able to jump back through gate or if they don't, slow boat out.
As for travelling through null, its very very empty. People are afraid so they'll mostly congregate in hub systems. When you jump in they'll all be on their way to station to dock because they're afraid. You can usually just burn through without being harassed or taking offsets to gates.
Occasionally you will get people who have some balls but its rare in my experience.
There really is not much to fear in null sec.
Tip: At the moment Period Basis is completely deserted. You'll be lucky to see anyone and if you do they'll likely be explorers.
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