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Posted - 2007.01.12 17:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Katrina Kirellii
Originally by: Alliaanna Dalaii
The risk for pirates is very real allready. If i'm pirating in my HaC and engage at a gate I cannot permatank. If the hauler has any escort (hint, take an escort you tards) that can scamble me i'm probably toast.
A clever Af pilot + sentries would be enough to nail me.
Alliaanna
Thanks for the Plug!
In reality - once the hauler jumps - the Pirate can pretty much pick on it first (ignoring any escort) and kill it. Usually jamming is late. So a good escort is really *bait* who hopes to survive or can somehow stir the mix up a bit and survive while allowing you to escape. In terms of the lone pirate who is usually a newbie rogue, an escort can scare them off - but then your odds without an escort would have been pretty good anyhow.
Again though - thanks for the plug - Escorts whether formally trained or not are important.
You are turning out to be a worst propaganda machine than BoB
Most of the time your posts either exagerate a fact or all together twist it. you either really don't know WTF you are talking about or just enjoy making stuff up. Either way your full of crap
For you newbies in a hauler out there, if you want to survive in low sec:
1. Use warp to zero you n00bs, autopilot will get you killed
If you use WTZ the only time a piwat can get you is on the other side of a gate and a lone one will have a hard time.
2. Fit stabs, haulers in dangerous space are one of the best ways to use stabs
3. Fit a decent Tank. it does you no good to be able to warp away from a rupture at a gate if you dont last long enough. a good tank will ruin most solo cruiser/battle cruisers day
Finally you have to contend with low sec gate camps. fortunatley for you this are very rare now that Kali nerfed them hard. if you jump in to a system in a slow arse mammoth for example and your overview is suddenly full of ships. you can kiss your hauler good bye (and probably your pod too).
5. A friend in a frig one jump ahead is the single most effective way to keep your cargo vessel in one piece. he can give you up to the minute traffic information and is much better equipt to get away from a camp than you.
I understand it is not always possible to bring a frind along to check the road ahead for you; a good thing to do then (and any time you travel unsecure space) is to check your map, select pilots in the last 30 minuts to identify potential gate blobs and then switch to ships destroyed in the last hour and 24h. I hope you can put 2 + 2 together and avoid ThaBigRedDot on your route
I will not recomend using disposable alts to scout as I believe it to be just as lame as logoffski. I dont do it, I dont need to do it, and the less people do it the better EVE becomes.
Use common sense while traveling in low sec and you will play more and whine less. I have hauled tons of stuff through low sec/0.0 and never once been caught by a gate camp or lone pirate. And yes, I am a pirate too 
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