EVE New Citizens Q&A

On my 2nd day playing, I bought a shuttle and roamed nullsec for 3 hours.
So it's entirely possible for a newbie to enter low and even nullsec.

If you get killed immediately every time you try to enter 0.4 then you are doing something wrong.

Do you try to enter 0.4 every time through the same gate? Try a different gate. Check the star map to see how many people are active in the system and how many ships/pods have been destroyed before jumping in. Avoid border systems with too many players in them. If you aren't sure, use a cheap alt to jump into the system and check whether there is a camp.

A bigger ship will most likely not help. It will just be slower and give the gatecampers even more time to lock and kill you. A Tornado can 1-shot most things smaller than a Battleship. OTOH, if you get close enough, a single frigate can probably kill it, as those 1-shot heroes usually give up all defences. Bring a couple of friends in frigates so that he doesn't have time to kill you all and you can kill that Tornado with ships worth a tenth of its price.

This isn't a question about old players vs new players. An old player that runs solo into a gate-camp is just as screwed as you. The only difference is that the older player is less likely to get into that situation in the first place, but that's not a question of having more skill points or a bigger ship, but knowing the game (and flying with friends).

You're not dying because of the quality of the ship but your skills as a player.

Stick with it and it gets better.

You were destroyed (no kill-mail posted, so I assume you were in a rookie ship) and podded by an artillery Rupture.

The person that did the deed is in FWeddit (=a major faction war corp), and you were in his briar-patch of Egghelende.

You could probably be in the same ship pretty quick yourself. It isn't an advanced ship, just a cruiser.

One-shot is the hallmark of artillery. Artillery have the weakness though of having a hard time following anything at a high traversal speed, so frigates that can get in close and orbit fast can tear an arty Rupture apart.

Chances are he has a lot of FWeddit friends nearby though, as it is part of a big alliance.

Perhaps you should consider joining a corp/alliance like that. FWeddit recruits from Reddit forums, and there are other corps like Brave Newbies for example. They are both known to be very helpful to new players.

Couple months old player here... Ganking and camping are part of nearly every MMO, the thing I like about eve is that it gives a one day old player the tools to avoid it, if he so wishes. No skill points required, just some basic knowledge of game mechanics. I spend most of my time in low sec, and only get killed if I'm not paying attention.

1) check the star map, if you see ships or pods destroyed in the last hour, or a lot of ships in system, don't go there.

2) if you do go there, make a safe bookmark (that is, a BM in dead space, not near any celestial or other warp able spot) within 14 au of whatever places you wish to visit in system. It is in fact quite hard to find you if you sit in such a spot (practically impossible if you have a cloak)

3) sit in this bookmark and use d-scan to get a sense of what is around you. You should be able to detect gate and or station camps, as well as find out what types of ships are flying around.

4) do whatever you came to do, do constant 360 d-scans, both short and long range to see if anything is approaching you. If you see combat probes, stop what you are doing and leave system (check for gate camps before warping to gate) always assume that whomever you see is out to get you (yes, even that 3 day player in a venture out in the belts)

5) if any new player joins local, check their info. Sec status, standings and bio could give hints as to his intentions. If a lot of new players enter local, leave system (check for gate camps before warping to gate)

6) if you need to dock, check the "guests" list of the station and compare it to local. It is surprising how many low sec systems turn out to only consist of docked up players. Those are pretty safe.

7) when you undock and the station is camped, immediately dock again, go grab a cup of coffee and try again a few minutes later. You have a short invulnerability period right aft undocking, so you can safely dock again.

8) if the station is not camped, turn on AB or mwd and go straight ahead for at least 150km and make a bookmark there. In the future this BM will allow you to immediately enter warp (no align time) and go straight past any camps, as well as giving you a warp point from where you can observe any camps in relative safety.

9) when you want to leave the system, warp to 100km from gate, turn around and AB or mwd until you are more than 150km from gate. Bookmark this spot, this will give you a spot to warp to next time you jump where you can safely observe a gate (check for camps, wrecks, etc...) in relative safety. Since it is more than 150km away, you can still do a warp to gate whenever it is safe.

10) no matter how many precautions you take, eventually your attention will slack and you will get blown up. If you don't want to lose your ship, don't fly it.

TLDR: bookmarks, d-scan, and flush those anti paranoia pills down the toilet, your shrink plays a low sec pirate and is looking for an easy mark.

I said "within 14 au", exactl because you want to be able to scan.

In theory, someone could have probed you out much earlier and saved your bookmark. Essentially the safety of your safe spot has then been compromised. If then later you return to the system and use the same BM, a pirate might recognize you, gamble on you returning to the same spot, warp there and attempt to decloak you. In practice this pirate would need to be nearly psychic...

It confuses me as to why some newbies get the idea that "trying PVP" consists of jumping unscouted into a lowsec system by themselves with no particular intent or purpose.

I don't see what they are trying to achieve with that, or how they expect the outcome to be anything other than their poorly, equipped totally inexperienced ass getting handed to them by the locals.

What do they expect to happen?

Confirming that even after 2 years...I still jump into low-sec blind and just prey to the almighty Veldspar God that I will be alright. If I then aren't killed on the gate, I look around very confused as I have no clue why I jumped that gate.