EVE New Citizens Q&A

- safe spots - Bookmarks in space where you can warp to and others can't (unless they use combat probes to scan you down)
- gate safes - I'm assuming perch, will be covered below
- insta docks - Bookmarks at the undock location that allow you to dock instantly
- insta undocks - Bookmarks that are directly in line with the undock direct from a station. Allow you to warp instantly when you undock so nobody can target you
- sandbox, sandboxing - Sandbox is referrence to type of game (like EVE) where you do what you want and aren't limited by levels, gear, classes. You "build" your own world in a sandbox.
- "always have perches in null, always" - wtf? - Perches are bookmarks at least 150km (minimum warp distance) around gates to avoid warp bubbles, scout for gate camps, etc.
- DED - https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/DED_Complex_List
- TQ - Tranquility. The name of the production EVE server.

thx, Kahega Amielden!
those all seem like very useful tactics that i was absolutely unaware of! (words came from the ccp thread about what you'd wished you'd have known as a new player.)

so, how does insta-dock, insta-undock differ from r.click the station name & dock, or r.click a gate name and jump?

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thx, Kahega Amielden!
i musta been typing as you posted. :)

Looks like most of your questions were answered. However with gate safes. It might be referencing a safe safe spot that is within d-scan range of a gate. This allows you to "see" what ships are at the gate before you land on it. Usefull in low or null sec to check for gatecamps or smartbombing battleships.

- safe spots

Bookmarks in random points of empty space, nowhere near any object that a hostile person could warp to. Create them by using the People & Places window and hitting "Add Bookmark" while in the middle of a warp.

- gate safes

Safe spots within 14 AU (d-scan range) of a gate, but "off-grid" (people at the gate cannot see your ship, and vice versa). Not to be confused with gate tacticals which are on-grid, but over 150 km from the gate (so you can warp to and from the gate and the tactical.

- insta docks

Bookmarks right on top of, or inside a station. If you warp to them, you will always be able to immediately dock. These are important for camped stations, since sometimes when you just normally go to dock, it may take you a few seconds of approaching the station before you can actually dock -- time in which you may get killed.

- insta undocks

Safe spots directly in line with the direction you undock in from the station. Because you come out of the station already aligned with them, you can instantly ("insta") warp to them, avoiding any station camp in place.

- sandbox, sandboxing

A sandbox is a fully contained system or simulation allowing a great degree of freedom for construction and destruction. The Eve universe is an example of a sandbox.

- "always have perches in null, always" - wtf?

A "perch" is the same thing as a "tactical" (see the above on "gate safes" for more on that). In nullsec, it is important to have a great deal of these (not only on gates, but stations and sometimes POSes as well), because obvious warp routes may have warp disruption bubbles along them, which can suck you in and trap you.

- DED

A division of CONCORD: the Directive Enforcement Department. They are the paramilitary wing of CONCORD, and the ones most often to deal with capsuleers (us) via direct enforcement of laws (in hisec), missions, info and details on deadspace complexes, etc. The most common context you run into "DED" in is in complex difficulty ratings, from 1/10 to 10/10.

- TQ

Short for "Tranquility", the name of the main live server cluster that we all play on. Also notable are the Serenity cluster, which runs the China servers, and the Singularity, Duality, and Buckingham servers, which exist for testing purposes.

- what is a GM and what is his or her purpose?

A GM, or game moderator, is CCP's operational/enforcement arm within the game. They make sure people are following the rules, help out people dealing with bugs and glitches, and generally provide support that requires a human touch. They are generally not visible, but can be contacted via a support ticket.

So if I run into a bug that has my ship refusing to do anything but space-donuts, and I file a "Stuck" support ticket, it's a BH, not a GM, that helps me out?

That's what I thought too. I suppose I should have made it clearer.

there's a saying: 'there's things we know, things we know that we don't know, and things that we don't know that we don't know about.'

i think a lot of this game (so far) falls into the latter, for me, at least!
thx again for shining some light on all that for me!

thanks, Petrus Blackshell, for the welcome!
interesting 4th statement :)

This.

The amount of times new players are confused because of EVE slang I take as `normal´ can´t be counted anymore.