How to find Incursions: Difference between revisions

Incursions are nomadic in nature, with focus lasting less than a week per constellation, forcing the incursion community to constantly move in order to continue taking part of the content.

In order to facilitate moving more than one ship at a time, people often utilize the [[Orca]] as well as their racial [[freighter]] of choice. The '''Orca''' excel at moving several smaller ships, like logistics and strategic cruisers, while still having good maneuverability and an excellent buffer whereas freighters have a much larger hold and are the only ones who can move a rigged battleship in highsec. See [[Preparing_for_Incursions#Orca|training up an Orca alt]] for more information about training up for and using the Orca.

Given the profitability of suicide ganking and how hard it is to actually use the extra cargo of a freighter, it is usually much better to travel fit your battleship and fly it yourself, than carry it around in a freighter. Especially if you have a faction battleship or costly ships. Flying a ship yourself as opposed to hauling a ship inside another ship, means the ship itself as well as the rigs lose their value, as they are destroyed when they suicide gank you. This drastically reduce the value of ganking you. Also remember that if you're carrying an expensive defensive module, fit it.

Since moving is the most dangerous part of incursioning, try to avoid moving your incursion ship as much as possible. For example, if you need to go elsewhere it is best if you leave your incursion ship in the system and simply use a shuttle or a rookie ship to fly back or forth (or interceptors if you like). That way you only put a very cheap ship on the line, instead of your more expensive incursion ship.

Not everyone will have alts to do this (or have the appropriate skills on their alt), but the fastest and safest way is always to fly the ship yourself on an alt. Naturally this doesn't work with your uni main, nor does it work if your alt is at war as well.

The main benefit of moving the ship by itself, is that the cost of the hull and the rigs become somewhat irrelevant. If you were to haul a pirate faction battleship in a freighter the hull cost and rigs would be potential loot, but if you fly it the ship and rigs would be destroyed and thus not potential loot for suicide gankers. Also remember that if you're bringing a deadspace hardener or other defensive modules with you, keep it fitted on your ship instead of moving it in your cargo hold where it does no good.

See [[Preparing_for_Incursions#Valet_alt|valet alt]] for a quick overview on the skills needed.

Using a valet alt flying the ship itself, there are two ways to move your ships to the staging system, depending on whether your ship is insured or not. To move a <strong>uninsured ship</strong>, you can simply contract it to your alt via item exchange, move it and contract it back to your main. To move a <strong>insured ship</strong>, you need to work with courier contracts, because an item exchange would void the existing insurance. To keep the insurance, you need to: