EVE New Citizens Q&A

If you lost skillpoints there will be notifications, to find out who killed you and what you lost go into your combat log(tab on your character sheet) and look under losses.

Right click your loss and paste it into notepad or a killboard. CCP seems to have removed the ability to directly view killmails.

Hi there,

This is the loss-mail for your ship:

Loss Mail - Ship

And this is your pod:

Loss Mail - Pod

Judging by the ships that killed you this does not appear to be a suicide gank. Your corporation was in all likelihood at war with Blood Union alliance. Here is a little information about high-sec wars and how to find out whether you are at war with anybody.

http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=War

One easy way to detect war-targets is by looking at the local chat screen. The avatars of the war-targets will have a red star next to their name. They will also appear as flashy red on your overview. When at war, you need to pay attention when travelling around high-sec.

Good luck and fly safe.

Confirmed. You were at war with Blood Union. Means they can and will shoot you everywhere without CONCORD asisting you.

Being in a player corp does come with advantages but also disadvantages (wardecs). whenever you are at war, look at local (red stars = war targets) and NEVER EVER use autopilot or go AFK in space. That being said, never use autopilot at all as manually warping to gates is ALWAYS faster.

As for OP:

1.) Logs and the killmail will show who shot you and in logs is detailed list of all they did to you in real time updates.

2.) You only loose skillpoints if your medical clone (respawn clone) is not up to date. Say you have 3mil SP and your clone limit is 10mil SP. It means you won't loose any SP when being podded. It will however consume the medical clone so you need to upgrade again (if podded you will end up with a 900k SP clone). If on the other hand you have 10mil SP and only a 3mil SP clone, you will loose a certain percentage of the highest level skill you have trained.

3.) As posted above, you are at war with them, no CONCORD will spawn when at war. If not at war then CONCORD will only PUNISH the offenders, not protect you. The main misunderstanding is that CONCORD will safe you and that high-sec is safe, both are NOT true.

4.) Killmail will show what you had in your cargohold.

5.) No, you can set any station to hold your medical clone. The station where your medical clone is located is the station your will respawn in.

@OP: That fit is WTF and you shouldn't be autopiloting during a war or when you have valuable cargo. Feel free to convo me in-game. I'm stuck in high sec for a while and consequently am extremely bored. I'll teach you how to fit a ship and answer any questions you may have. Since you're not screaming and crying about this and trying to learn from it instead I assume you're not a carebear so I'll send you a couple million to replace your dessy.

Agree that the fit isn't something to be particular proud off

But that is totally off topic. He as asking why he got killed and why CONCORD didn't show up.

The fit he lost is a typical new player fit, new players usually fit dual tanks or some other mistake modules that shouldn't be on it.
We all were new players once, so give him some slack as he (like all of us were) is still learning.

Wow, thanks for all the constructive criticism. Really. this community is great. I do realize I made several big mistakes here, Autopiloting or going afk is not something I normally do but I got lazy. I realize my ship was fit wrong and should have asked for recommendations here on the forums to avoid noob mistakes.

I haven't been playing long and wasn't planning on joining a corp at all until I had finished all the tutorial missions and really hit a wall with were to go next. But I was invited and the person seemed very pleasant so i figured why not. I can't say I've gotten much help from the corp but I'm also on a slow learning curve as I don't get a huge amount of time to play. Is it better to play solo until I reach a particular level of training.? Like tech II ships or some other skill level ?

No, unless they are actually abusing you (asking you to pay to them beyond a reasonable tax for being part of the corporation, making you put in particular hours in corp work, etc), I'd say you are still better off with a player corporation than solo. Skill point levels mean very little in the end; it's player skill that matters, and you get that faster in a "real" corporation.

But unless you have a particular reason to stay with these guys (like, a friendship), you might want to look into getting into a corporation that actually makes a point of teaching newbies. You could e.g. check out Eve Uni: http://www.eveuniversity.org/about/

There a lof of corps who will recruit anyone and everyone just to grow their numbers indiscriminately, often tempting new players with promises of a low (or 0) tax rate, which is really an irrelevant consideration in the long run. Or even the short run. You shouldn't join the first corp that approaches you. They'll leave you to basically fend for yourself in daily life, and won't even warn you about important things like being at war, and how to conduct yourself during a war.

High sec wardecing corps seek out corps like yours, so that they will have lots of easy targets to shoot at.

Solo play can be better for making isk, but really the best thing is to find a group of supportive and like minded players. They tend to be less vocal and that can make finding a solid group difficult without some searching. A good corp, like the one I used to run before hitting null sec, when a new player joined, we would go through ship fits, and certain things to do in order to save pods/ships, etc. One day, I actually took the rookies out in shuttles solely for how to set up and save your pod in a pvp situation. It entailed me in a fast lock ship, and them in shuttles. Training completed if they could get their pod away after I blew up shuttle without getting their pod scrammed.

As for ship fittings, I think I saw a new player guide for fitting ships in the eve wiki. There are two of them, one is quite detailed and complex, the technical side to a fit. the other is more simplifed and explains the whys of fittings for new players, might want to check that out.

i believe your wreck lasts for 2 hours. also, be careful when trying to salvage your wreck obviously. bring a cheap ship...