Okay, Eve is a brutal, PvP-centric game with a harsh death mechanic. That is the game being played. Now, that being said, it is still possible to play the game casually, be a risk averse HS carebear, and keep your losses to a minimum. This does, however, require a modicum of knowledge and effort on your part.
Now, I’m not entirely sure that you have the right attitude for a game like Eve. After all, when the going got tough, you got complaining. But just in case you’re having a bad day or something:
I’m not sure what exactly do you mean by HS piracy. Typically people distinguish suicide gankers from those who use war decks to legally shoot their prey, but I suspect that you might actually be talking about gankers. I’ll talk about both though.
Gankers
- Don’t fly what you cant afford to lose.
- Learn from your mistakes. Always ask yourself what you could have done to get a better outcome.
- Retrievers are a trap. They don’t have the isk efficiency of a covetor, and their increased tank still isn’t enough to prevent a gank.
- I recommend most carebears fly properly tanked procurers. It is suitable for solo and group mining, and most gankers won’t give you a second look.
- Some people like to yield tank covetors (the increased yield more than makes up for their losses), but minimizing your losses requires a firm understanding of the game and constant vigilance. Moreover, their small cargoholds make them more suitable for mining as a group. Of course, you can jetcan mine, but ninja looters might mess with you.
- There are gankers throughout New Eden, but they also like to hunt where prey is plentiful. Thus, the more populated a region/system is, the more of ganker presence you’ll likely see.
- Haulers can either (1) fit enough tank that the cost of the ships required to gank them exceeds the value of their expected loot drop, or (2) try to be as slippery as possible (i.e. covert ops cloaking devices, warp core stabs, and/or lowest possible align times).
- Mission runners should go for option 1, as missioning ships tend to not be very sippery.
- If you do fit a bit of bling to missioning/incursion ships, be sure to use a travel fit. Travel fits are made by fitting as many armor and shield buffer mods on your ship as possible. Offline guns if you need more fitting room. Carry your PvE mods in your cargohold.
- Because ganks happen so quickly, a buffer tank is more effective against gankers than active tanks. It just takes too long for active reps to rep more EHP than you’d get from fitting nothing but buffer tank mods.
- Use intel tools such as eve gatecamp check, scouts, and corp intel channels if you have them.
- No one is too big to gank.
Piracy
- Don’t fly what you can’t afford to lose.
- Learn from your mistakes. Always ask yourself what you could have done to get a better outcome.
- The best defense against war decs on your PvE characters is by not anchoring structures, or using holding corps.
- Don’t take war decked characters to major trade routes or trade hubs unless you are looking for a fight.
- Some HS pirate groups might only be active at major trade routes, trade hubs, and certain regions, which means you can PvE in backwood areas in peace. Others will fly around looking to catch guys unaware. Some will only be active in one area of space at a time. You can find out what you’re dealing by looking up their killboards, and adjusting accordingly.
- Keep an eye on local for flashies.
- Use intel tools such as eve gatecamp check, scouts, and corp intel channels if you have them.
- Don’t expect HS pirates to fight fair. Many do it for profit, and are not above using all manner of tricks to win (e.i. login and undock alts or friends once you’ve picked up a weapons timer, blob, put ships they are about to lose in neutral bowheads, etcetera).
- I hate saying it, because sometimes people go on break and don’t come back, but turtleing is an effective strategy. Denying them content encourages them (and other HS pirate groups) to leave you alone and wardeck groups that do provide them plenty of content.
OMG, I can’t believe I spent this long writing this wall of text. Watch you come back with a doubling down of your assertion that CCP needs to make eve safer for the guy who puts forth minimum effort into staying safe.
Procurer Fit
Summary
[Procurer, T2]
Damage Control II
Mining Laser Upgrade II
Multispectrum Shield Hardener II
Medium Shield Extender II
Thermal Shield Amplifier II
Multispectrum Shield Hardener II
Modulated Strip Miner II, Veldspar Mining Crystal II
Modulated Strip Miner II, Veldspar Mining Crystal II
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium EM Shield Reinforcer II
Mining Drone II x5
Warrior II x5
Inherent Implants ‘Highwall’ Mining MX-1003
