fivetide humidyear
Gallente
The Avalon Foundation
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Posted - 2006.11.23 17:12:00 -
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Edited by: fivetide humidyear on 23/11/2006 17:16:18
Yep, of course you can be caught on the otherside of the gate but the attacker has much less time to lock you, get the cargo scan results up and make a decision to attack as you align to warp. Then he has to be close enough to scramble you to stop you warping away.
I've been the "victim" of 3 high sec ganks and I learnt the same lesson from them all:
Number 1
carrying loads of mission loot in the ours to jita pipe, scanned by badger mkII attacked by lone Brutix. attack barely scratched Occators shield. ROFL'd as attacker wtfbbq by concord
Number 2
carrying even more expensive cargo up same pipe about to jump into kisogo, attacked by 3 caracals and 2 brutix's. now this time i had to repair some damage to the occators armour, about 500 iirc. that annoyed me. LOL'd even more at the we should have popped it comments in local, got some good loot from their cans too and enjoyed bumping a couple of pods around.
Number 3
Ganka raven attacked me for not very much cargo, possibly for my mods, care to guess the result? Occator suffered light scratching to armour, not actually repaired that armour damage yet.
What did I learn?
Industrial level 5 was one of the best skills i've trained. The occator was iirc about 25 days training that was well worth it and I'm mainly trained in shooty shooty stuff. You get the added bonus of the blocade runner for low sec and speedy hauling.
it's been said before, don't carry 400million in a tech one hauler.
On my occ with extra passive hardners for, good DC etc i have resists in the high 80's to 90's on loads of armour and good resists on the hull, I would guess that it would take at least 3 ravens to be sure of popping it, especially in higher sec systems where the concord reaction is faster. Going to try that next time I can get onto sisi with some corpmates.
you can't tank a tech 1 hauler enough to be sure of fending off a ganka raven, maybe a iteron 5 could do it comfortably but hell thats a few million for a skillbook away from transports anyway. (and the cost of the Occator)
I've made a copy of this for when the same omg i got killed in high sec post appears next week.
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