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A n00bler question occurred to me last night while UWoF was failing to kill me (Marilea) at their gate gank--I've never returned fire when in range of sentry guns; will defending yourself provoke a response from them?

Nope, you can defend yourself. And you can initiate combat with pirates (lower than -5 security rating).

Yeah sentry guns look the other way if there's an official wardec.

My question is, if they had a gate gank how is it they failed to kill you?

I'm not in the f13 corp, so I'm not wardec'd.  They couldn't bubble; just 4 of them trying to scramble/shoot me as I crawled 15k to the gate.  I didn't have to sit there and take it, but they were doing so poorly, I thought, "WTF...let's see what happens."

They're not very good pirates, are they?

Damn, now I wish I'd shot back.  Those guns tore them up pretty good as it was.

How is it that you were able to get to the gate then. I know you're in a Raven, but still....

Ravens are slow as it is, and 15km can be a long way when you're moving at 50m/s...

If you return fire, the gate will prevent you from jumping through it for up to a minute. Keep that in mind before you take a few parting shots.

Ah, good to know about the jump delay, that would have made it tricky.  I'll remember to warp in-system if that happens.


Well, for one thing, not *one* of them thought to web me :P  Although they didn't have enough scramblers to prevent jumping, so I could have warped in-system anyway.

Although, I fly low-sec in generic tank mode--all resists tweaked up, including a good damage control.  Maybe they just figured it would be easier and didn't stop to think.

I predict they'll lose your war...again :)

Not sure if boring them out of their minds is winning but yeah, I predict this war will be similar to the last.

They camp us. We stay docked

Hey, it's their million a week.  Seems like a dumb manoeuver but whatever.  Keeps me from doing the autopilot from West Bumblefuck, though.

Another war? You people keep making me want to play again.