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=Dealing=

===Gate camps ~~- avoiding~~, ~~finding~~ and ~~informing~~===

===Gate camps, or How I learned to stop worrying and love being bombed===

So, we're minding our business, flying through

So, we're minding our business, flying through space on the way to Jita. Damn, that's a long route. Prefer shorter, hey that's much shorter! And only a handful of low sec. She'll be right. Jumping into Rancer.

Congratulations, you're just about to find your first gatecamp. Bunch of myopic trolls, dwelling on chokepoint gates waiting for prey. And we don't feed trolls, do we?

So, how to avoid. First up, don't go into lowsec. That cuts right down on the possibility of a gatecamp. But, maybe we're at war, or really need to get through this system. Good news! We can find information in the Evemap, in Dotlan, in our intell channels and from experience. More on Evemap later, but it's easy to show kills in the last hour, and chokepoint systems that should give hints that blappage is happening.

What if we want to find them, either to avoid or bring the fleet in? Well, as unimaginative and feeble as their constituent members are, gatecamps will often frequent the same places. Checking killboards will find likely locations from kills and the pilots area of operations.

Now, we've found one. Accidentally or otherwise. First up, don't panic. If you've gone through the gate, you've got a minute before you uncloak if you don't move. Open up intell channels, fleet chat or mumble. Clearly state that there's a gatecamp in (system). Look at the composition, say the numbers, type, and rough layout. Example "Break break. Gatecamp in Rancer system, Otosela gate. 12 ships, 4 flashy, 20 in local. 4 frigate, several cruisers, 2 proteus and a drake. Set up within 10km of gate". Stop transmitting, start screaming. Now, it's time for you to deal with it. Unless your fleet is on the otherside of the gate, this is up to your lonesome.

===Dealing - 60 second cloak, burn back, align to celestials===

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-===Gate camps - avoiding, finding and informing===
+===Gate camps, or How I learned to stop worrying and love being bombed===
-So, we're minding our business, flying through
+So, we're minding our business, flying through space on the way to Jita. Damn, that's a long route. Prefer shorter, hey that's much shorter! And only a handful of low sec. She'll be right. Jumping into Rancer.
+Congratulations, you're just about to find your first gatecamp. Bunch of myopic trolls, dwelling on chokepoint gates waiting for prey. And we don't feed trolls, do we?
+So, how to avoid. First up, don't go into lowsec. That cuts right down on the possibility of a gatecamp. But, maybe we're at war, or really need to get through this system. Good news! We can find information in the Evemap, in Dotlan, in our intell channels and from experience. More on Evemap later, but it's easy to show kills in the last hour, and chokepoint systems that should give hints that blappage is happening.
+What if we want to find them, either to avoid or bring the fleet in? Well, as unimaginative and feeble as their constituent members are, gatecamps will often frequent the same places. Checking killboards will find likely locations from kills and the pilots area of operations.
+Now, we've found one. Accidentally or otherwise. First up, don't panic. If you've gone through the gate, you've got a minute before you uncloak if you don't move. Open up intell channels, fleet chat or mumble. Clearly state that there's a gatecamp in (system). Look at the composition, say the numbers, type, and rough layout. Example "Break break. Gatecamp in Rancer system, Otosela gate. 12 ships, 4 flashy, 20 in local. 4 frigate, several cruisers, 2 proteus and a drake. Set up within 10km of gate". Stop transmitting, start screaming. Now, it's time for you to deal with it. Unless your fleet is on the otherside of the gate, this is up to your lonesome.
 ===Dealing - 60 second cloak, burn back, align to celestials===