EVE New Citizens Q&A

First off, I'm not here to rage, or cry about losing my precious ship. I'm here because I'm new to the game, and judging by HOW FAST I died, I need some help!

Basically I was piloting a Bestower with 1 cannon, and all increase cargo. I was down before I could even consider warping, or the guards could save me. They did come and get em after though! (Justice maybe?). I know I should probably add some type of armor improvement, but like I said, I'm new and just don't know what works and doesn't. Also, is there a better way to get to where I was than taking another ship all the way out there from my respawn? (Or faster?) Thanks!

I'm sorry, but how do I link that to you?

The combat log section of your character-window has a list of the so-called killmails. Here you can see who killed you (or who you killed) and some other information on the type of ship, fitting and cargo, etc...

The ship you lost, a Bestower, is a ship made to haul goods across space. As such, it has very limited defensive capabilities and since it may carry valuable cargo, it is often targeted. Using modules that increase the shields, armor or hull strength and resistances will greatly improve your survivability. If you travel in high security space (hi-sec), then your goal is to survive long enough for CONCORD (the space police) to arrive and destroy the attackers. But even with top-notch defensive modules, a group of dedicated attackers can still ruin your day.

In low-sec and null-sec, the protection of CONCORD is absent and you're on your own. Here speed and the ability to evade attackers is often more important than the strength of your defenses.

On a final note, it is very tempting to use the autopilot function when flying long distances, especially with slow vessels such as a Bestower. However, autopiloted ships warp to 10-15km from the stargate and fly slowly towards the gate to make the jump. This means that it'll take more than a minute between your ship coming out of warp and it going through the gate. When you manually give the command to warp to and jump through a stargate, your ship exits warp directly on top of the gate and you can immediately jump through.

Is here.

You jumped into lowsec, a 0.4 security system, so anyone can attack you without repercussions (aside from the guns on the gate attacking them, although this usually isn't lethal).

You're welcome.

Well, to expand on that a bit...

There is repercussions in lowsec if someone attacks you, they will lose some security status and may find themselves attacked by the gate's guns (or station guns if near a station), but there is no CONCORD in lowsec like you find in highsec space.

So basically what you did wrong was to simply navigate into an unsafe area of space. Bad idea trying to take a standard hauler like that into lowsec, you'll often die within a couple jumps to someone camping a gate.

So best thing to do is inspect your route before travelling and avoid lowsec systems, unless you're properly equipped to pass through them.

If you have a second account running (dual boxing) or just use another character you could fly to your wreck and loot it.

Problems there though:

• Loot will prolly be gone already
• By taking the loot with another character you'll go suspect, meaning you'll get a temp flag as a criminal yourself and can be attacked anywhere for 15mins.

In the case of your Bestower however you can see in the killmail that the stuff in your cargo hold wasn't 'green', meaning it didn't survive the wreck. So nope, nothing you can do to get it back.

Poke me ingame in a few hours if/when it ever goes online again and I'll sort you out.

A basic precaution when route-planning is to set your autopilot to 'Prefer Safer'. When you set your route it will then avoid lowsec systems if possible, but be aware that if there is no route avoiding lowsec it will plot a route with the least possible lowsec content. You can do this in the drop-down menu at top left of screen.

If you intend to do a lot of hauling look up the 'cloak/mwd trick' - it's useful in highsec as well as lowsec because you can get suicide-ganked anywhere if your attacker thinks it's worth it.

OP, I suggest you also convo in-game those two characters that killed you.

Ask them what happened, and what you could've done to avoid it.

There's a very high chance they'll give you good advice. (I would, if I were them)

Also, considering your 5M loss was big for you but relatively small by average game standards, there's a decent chance they might even give you all or part of your ISK back. (I might, if I were them, depending on the mood)

In my experience lowsec pirates are - on average - among the nicest people in EVE. (I am )

fixed that for you.

a turn off is something else entirely

*Snip* Removed reply to a deleted post. ISD Ezwal.

i don't mean to sound like a dick and to be fair, the information in the links was pretty generic but if you intend to properly learn eve, you should get comfortable with reading long walls of text. there is just too much to know in eve to sum it up in a few words or tutorials.