EVE General Discussion

*****TL;DR Pod me? Please?*****

I’ve been playing EVE for 4 months and I just keep feeling like I'm missing something.

Now obviously I’m missing out on the corporate dynamic, as you can tell by my only character spending the whole time in an NPC corp. Don’t feel like I have enough time/skills/talent to play with the big boys in the real corps. What I’m talking about is missing the fly what you can lose, nonconsensual pvp. Where is it?

I started playing EVE after reading an article about Burn Jita. I had always heard about it and put it off, but after spending 6mo with SW:TOR I really felt like I needed something different. So I read a devblog about TiDi implementation for the event and besides making my eyes bleed it made me want to play the game. Bad. So I did what I always do, I read. I read ISK the guide. Cover to cover. And after I had taken enough Advil to make the brain stop hurting I read wikis. Forum threads. Day zero for EVE players. Anything I could find. And only after about 2 weeks of reading I finally made the jump and started my trial subscription and LOVED IT.

The sense of danger was palpable. Couldn’t really understand setting an undock warp point so I was convinced I was going to be killed every time I undocked. (Yeah, now I know you’re not gonna get ganked in a started system :-/ ) I told my friends I was playing and couldn’t convince anyone to play because of the danger. They had heard about the wretched hive of scum and villainy. The first thing one of my friends said in response to “oh I’ve started playing this EVE game” was to ask me if I’ve been killed and robbed yet.

So I fit my shields. I constantly aligned to station while I was mining, ever vigilant that somewhere out there was someone looking to give me a one way ticket back to a clone bay. I would dock when I had to empty my bladder. I ran away from agents giving me missions to low sec. Whenever I bought something to fit a ship I bought 2 to replace it when I got blown up.

And then………………………………………………………nothing………………………………….

The griefers never came. The tear drinking, ship ganking, newbie pwning 733t pvpers let my clones expire in their bays, never used before I had to upgrade to a new model. Insurance on my ships expired. I don’t even remember if I have insurance on any of my active ships. I got lazy, and it got bad. The other day I let my mack mine ice while I drove my wife to work and stopped at the store. I leave drones in space and forget to add new ones when I get back to station. I spent a week with an expanded cargohold on my drake because I kept forgetting to put my power relay back on. I take missions into low sec and putter around a bit… salvaging and watching nothing happen in local.

It got so bad that I plotted a course 35 jumps into *EDIT* Null-sec the other day just to see how far I could get. (In case you are wondering, 2 jumps in a civilian fit starter frigate) After being podded for my first time on this run I actually thanked the campers that got me for giving me the experience.

Which leads me back to my topic, what am I doing wrong? Where are the gankers? I have so many tears built up that I need a good release. Is it all about the null corp pvp that nobody spends time killing the little guy anymore? Can I put a bounty on myself just to make it so that I’m afraid again?

Suggestions appreciated. Thank you for your time, and fly (not too) safe!

HTFU

First time i went into low sec...i lost my apoc. Second time i went into low sec...i lost a second apoc =) Some systems are more dangerous than others.

You need a plan.

Pick a plan that involves more risk and interaction and execute it!

You just discovered the melodramatic hyperbole that surround EVE and all the stuff about it. It really isn't half as bad as what people make it out to be. But the second you **** off anyone with any significant power it will be hell. You need to do something to get noticed. Goto a very crowded and popular mining system near Jita, there is bound to be plenty of gankers around there.

Insult someone's mother, get them really riled up, get them to war dec you....then you start to feel it.

Or maybe go live a week in deep null sec. It's a definite personal test of will to live in null with no blues of friends to speak of....you'll end up getting complacent with the lack of people popping in and out of local. You will get lazy with the expectation that your system is empty 23.5/7 when you're that far out on the edge.....

And then one day you'll find yourself in station in highsec after having gone afk in a belt.

Join RvB as red or blue and shoot your little heart out, and have your little heart shot out. That should keep you busy awhile.

You need to **** someone off it sounds like. Get in the heaviest ship you can with as much mass as possible. MWD fit the thing and start bumping the crap out of freighters and miners. That will get some hate on you.

Remember that in High Sec, you have to be worth something to get ganked.

A small civ fitted frig isn't worth the sec hit or the loss of a ship to Concord.

Sign up for Red vs Blue or find a Faction Warfare corp. Then you will be checking your back more often

Thanks for your posts everyone! I guess that I was wrong in my conception about what life therere is in a corp like RVB or living out in null...

if you join RVB I assumed that it would be just fleet/blob warfare on one side to the other... does it involve hunting/being hunted 1v1? if so that makes it much more enticing.

I was also under the impression that null was more corp/alliance/sov based and there wasn't much to do unless you were part of a corp... I don't have tons of time to play and i play at odd hours so i mostly rat/mine/mission by my lonesome. stupid newfoundland time... up before NA and after EU

I just want that sense of danger and excitement again... and having the adrenaline start pumping while i'm just making a boring shuttle run to pick up a new part, ydig?

thank again for eveyone's input!

While many people dump on Providence, it does have a decent amount of small-gang warfare. And since they're NRDS, you can head down there any time you want. I'm sure someone's recruiting.
There's also videos of people doing solo roams. Check out kil2 (youtube link), as well as several others. They often explain what they're doing, which is helpful for those of us who are hopeless at pvp, but enjoy it nonetheless.