Golden Tail
Hedion University
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Posted - 2008.03.16 19:14:00 -
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Edited by: Golden Tail on 16/03/2008 19:17:18
This is an alt and not my main. Reason i am posting with my alt is because i dont want you to know who my main is, due to what i am about to say.
I haul 3-4 billion ISK per load every 1-2 days from Jita. I have been at it for almost a year. I fly a blockade runner. I have spent a lot of time analyzing how suicide gankers work after being ganked in a similar way you have been, personally loosing nearly .7 billion a year ago. I have found ways to introduce static into their scanning process. Found new ways to get out of their range faster than they can lock - which is why the new undock velocity/vector is so awesome. I stopped autopiloting looong time ago.
I can afford a lot of accounts, and i use them to just sit outside Jita hub and watch for an opportune moment to undock. Sometimes i have alt bs's sitting there waiting to rep my hauler just in case it gets primaried.
I was once chased by a gang of 20 BS's from Hek to Jita. These guys are persistent. And have a lot of time on their hands.
When there is 600-800 locals, i don't undock. Undocking after DT is best, but not always possible, and when i do undock into a pool of 500 locals and it takes 3 minutes for black screen to disappear - cold sweat rolls down my spine. But this is something you live with in a game with the scale and darwinian spirit of EVE.
So i understand how you are feeling right now. After i got ganked and lost nearly everything i had, i quit EVE for 2 months. You are completely justified to just quit... regardless of any witticism some forum jockey here throws at you. Most of the people who reply have never seen 9 figures in their wallet, nor do they have what it takes to get there. Think i grind? Think again.
My advice to you is to take a more proactive role in your own safety. The beauty of the game is the fact that its targeted towards adults with more wits about them than your usual 15 year old wow player. Study how gankers work. Join a corp that does suicide ganks if you have to. Find what time is best to haul ****. Send a scout ahead while sitting cloaked somewhere.
There are solutions to everything. I sneaked through Rancer with some very valuable small items, right past 'the united' fat blinking asses. For weeks on in.
Sometimes you find ways to make big money in eve before you learn the ship fitting basics. The regular peon doesnt understand that, but those of us who have a tendency to attract huge volumes of ISK shouldnt really care. You'll make your fortune back and then some. I did.
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