We had our first Pod losses last night. Regi, Siaobhan and I decided we wanted to try a low sec mining op. We saw the gate camp on the map and decided to try and run it. Regi and Siabhan were shot down and podded. Lost were a Bestower and frigate.
The operation, route, and ships were my idea. I wanted to see how we could do getting through the gate. I honestly thought the frigate would make it and that Regi would get away in his pod but I was wrong. I can replace everything that was lost, including implants.
The gate camp was 3 or 4 battle cruisers and likely had a cloaked ship somewhere nearby that saw us warp into the system and told the camp which gate we were going to. The BC had equipment enough to quickly (almost instantly) lock a frigate (and pod) and managed to tank the sentry guns.
All the bad stuff aside, I did learn new lessons about ganking in low sec and it did return the sense of danger to the area. The use of BC's to gate camp was totaly unexpected. It makes sense in hindsight, they can lock frigates fast enough to tie them down, have the guns to blow them up, and have the tank to survive the sentries.
If we want to play in low sec, we have to accept the risk of losing ships and pods on a regular basis. If we want to fight in low sec we have to accept the reality that we will lose to more experienced people often.
While this gives us a lot to practice and think about, no would should blow this out of proportion. We didn't lose very much. Low sec has bigger risks but bigger rewards. Were we to have made it to Ranni, we could have set up a corporate office (for around 1 million, compared to 25 million in Finid) and mined safely for hours in wide open belts. Once we take some time to practice surviving that exact gate camp, we have the chance to take at least one of them with us(net loss for them).
Not only that but it was more exciting than anything else we did ingame so far.
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