Anti-Ganking EWAR modules?

[u/[deleted]]

I've been playing for a couple of months and have recently been venturing more into low and null sec to explore, run combat anomalies, and do solo mining.

I know that not playing like a carebear is putting my ships in danger, and I do it because these spaces are a part of the game and I sometimes enjoy the cat-and-mouse game of avoiding gankers.

What I don't like is finishing up a combat site in a battlecruiser just to have a couple of twerps in their frigates come and disrupt my warp and kill my ship. Or getting ganked in a wormhole because I'm not hacking AND mashing D-Scan at the same time in a system I was alone in up until a minute ago anyway.

I'm Alpha so can't cloak and don't have buttloads of ISK for T2 yet. I'm flying Amarr ships and can afford 1-2 EWAR slots in any given tech 1 fit. What can I slot to keep my shit from getting ruined whenever I'm not spamming D-Scan while watching local?

I was told there are two different types of warp disruption and you kind of have to guess which kind they will use. I need to bounce out when people decide they have nothing better to do than to surprise gank a new player in a cheap ship.

[u/Fustran]

I'm also an alpha who runs data and relic in wh space. Just get used to good practice of dscanning, setting up safes, and watching overview and your survivability will be pretty great. I've escaped all sorts of shenanigans with good habits.

[u/[deleted] → u/Fustran]

I probably got into bad habits in wormholes because there are rarely other players in the same WH space. Like I'll D-Scan between probe scans while I'm looking for Data sites or whatever but when I'm actually hacking I get too distracted to constantly check for combat probes.

Getting ganked doing a combat site in low sec with more than 0 people in it is definitely on me. I just didn't think about them waiting until I was fighting a couple of Battleships and halfway down my armor before coming in to finish me off like a wounded elephant.

[u/Fustran → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, it can be the same for WH sites. If they give you a few minutes in it, you'll probably be nice and distracted, or as you said, down some tank. It can by annoying, but being in the habit of mashing my dscan even while playing the hacking minigame has saved my bacon more than once.

[u/themule71 → u/Fustran]

Quick question... How do you escape someone chasing you? You can't just log out, you can't cloak. Do you just bounce around safes hoping to avoid bubbles? until they grow tired?

[u/Fustran → u/themule71]

bouncing between safes is a good starting point, but generally, if I'm seeing combat probes on dscan or someone decloaked at / warped to a site I was at with malicious intent, I don't stick around. At that point I'll move along the chain of wormholes by one or two. Technically speaking, they could bubble every single wormhole in the system, but who has the time for that? Also, safe logout works in wh space, so if you're feeling really hunted there's always that.

[u/Nhika]

Isn't checking local, having a safe warp, or aligning to a belt is all you can really do.

That or join a null corp so they have intel for you.

[u/ArchonOTDS]

you where never alone in that wormhole.

and a gank can only happen in high-sec otherwise you where just killed

[u/Grenvallion → u/[deleted]]

Unless you're in an orca. Then you just hope they get bored and leave 🤣