Another exercise for players with a bit more skills is train up cloaking, fit a cloaky ship for speed / agility and go spend time playing ‘Cat & Mouse’ with low sec / null sec residents.
When I first got skilled in cloaking, I got a Force Recon Cruiser and did a little info research on how to survive in low / null sec space, learned how to work D-Scan, how to make Safe Spots, how to run gate camps, how to avoid Bubble Camps, etc. Then I spent 2 weeks in the ‘Great Wildlands’ practicing that info on how to evade being caught.
I will say this about the Russians, they don’t give up easily. They rigorously pursued me from system to system, advance gate camps were set up trying to lock me in, even tried catching me with Bubbles set up on both sides of gates.
Course over time they realized that I was leading them further and further away from the space they occupied. Eventually the last one pursuing me posted a message linked with my name in local chat. The message was in Russian language and the text was bold capital letters.
That was the only time they ever made contact with me during the 2 weeks I spent there. I told my fellow corpmates about it and they said I had obviously pissed them off due to the bold capital letters in the message. Doesn’t surprise me, they almost caught me a few times but I narrowly evaded capture each time.
Gotta say all that time was filled with lot’s of Adrenalin flowing exhilarating episodes, definitely a learning experience that all newish type players should experience. The main point of my story is that I did my homework first, researched all available info and then put that knowledge into practice. Thanks to that I’m now able to tell the tale of how I survived 2 weeks playing ‘Cat & Mouse’ with the Russians in the ‘Great Wildlands’.
DMC