EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi there!

Been playing since end 2006 till mid 2012 and now casually (like thats possible with eve) getting back into it.

Just wondering about some stuff, hopefully people can enlighten me a bit?

1. Where is COAD? Did another forum section replace it? I miss the spacesoapopera.
2. Who's who? Whats going on in 0.0 politics?
3. What is the latest meta? Last i played tengus and loki's with 100mn pirate AB's ruled the skies and unprobeable speedwarfare command ship alts hid in savespots... anything change?
4. New ships? I saw some t2 destroyers and some screencaps of something big?
5. Major new changes/features the last 2 years?

Well that was it I guess, hope somebody can answer!

1. Where it always was... here : https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=topics&f=266. The only difference now is that it's not visible until you log in... which is for the betterment of the humanity in general ;

2. Influence map: http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Verite/influence.png. Blue guys on the bottom and top are renting from Goons (like genuinely, no scam Chribba secured contracts). Brown guys on the right are also renters, but with different landlords (NC., Nulli Secunda (? ... I guess... who cares). Green guys on the top-right are renters as well - renting from Pandemic legion. The left half of the map are Goons and their allies.

3. Some would say "1000 Megathrons", but that's not exactly true. It used to be sentry Ishtars until very recently - until the nerfbat smashed them to oblivion. Slowcats are still used, but the real meta is supers and Titans: here, here and here. After that monstrosity, EVE rushed into cold war that would make RL cold war look bleak.

4.
- Sisters of EVE (scanning/hacking/hit-and run): Astero (frigate), Stratios (cruiser), Nestor (battleship);
- Mordus (heavily overpriced and arguably overpowered): Garmur (frigate), Orthus (cruiser), Barghest (battleship);

I don't know exactly the which ships were in the game when you left, but there have been added:
- tier 3 battlecruisers that use battleship sized guns (Tornado, Naga, Oracle, Talos);
- new destroyers (Dragoon, Corax, Algos, Talwar)
- mining frigates: Venture (t1) and Prospect (T2)
- definitively something that I forgot to mention;

5.
- Industry is completely changed (a couple of days ago). Slots are removed and became infinite, while newly introduced tax is serving as a catalyst. You don't need faction standing any more to anchor a POS in highsec. You can anchor a POS everywhere, even in 1.0 systems. Rorqual became useless, since you can use a Compression Array even on a Highsec POS. Module and ship reprocessing has been nerfed to 50% efficiency max, but the ore compression is now more effective and useful. T2 BPO's are nerfed to be only slightly better than using invention (finally... after more than 5 years... should have been removed altogether, but the nerf bat did a pretty decent job already);
- Suicide ganking became FOTY and miners in highsec are apparently paying for "mining permits" (search: CODE. - with a dot);
- Hacking sites are refactored and contain a hacking mini-game;
- "Ghost sites" are introduced pretty much everywhere;
- Ships are no longer divided in "Tiers";
- Pretty much every ship in the game have been changed in the last year or two. Massive balancing done everywhere.
- Deployable mobile modules launched from ship's cargohold. Browse the market to see all of them. I'll mention Siphon Unit that can steal moon materials from a POS;
- NeX store is dead - it is replaced by New Eden Store with more reasonable prices. Monocle got an axe;
- Ship skins are introduced in their initial version (a blueprint obtainable through New Eden Store). CCP is working on the next iteration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUGtSzngCrU&t=3m37s
- definitively something that I forgot to mention;

Flavour of the month year.

Hello and welcome back to Eve.

High security is probably the most dangerous sector of space now since Suicide Ganking is not limited to just Mining ships and Freighters. Basically any ship on Autopilot is a viable target, especially since most Suicide gankers are fairly organized now and usually operate in fleets.

The basic norm for high sec now is warp to 0/jump/dock when traveling, set standings and keep watch on local, always be aligned and ready to warp when someone lands on grid, set up and use undock spots in main Trade hubs and above all else, make sure you have a good defensive tank on your ship.



Anyway, hope you have a long and rewarding career this time around.



DMC

No, not really.

Sure, some systems are camped to hell (check the map for recent kills) but most aren't.

Follow the common sense rules (don't autopilot through systems with lots of kills in them. don't carry more than a billion in a freighter, that kind of thing) and you'll generally be fine.

Granted, not autopiloting is generally good advice anywhere you are. I know I don't. It's not like it takes /that/ much attention to hit the jump button every so often. Especially with freighter warp speeds.

Part of the 'tiericide' initiative (which was the rebalancing of ships to remove the idea of 'you start in a tier 1 battleship then upgrade to a tier 2 one that is better, then a tier 3, then maybe a tech 2 or pirate one') was an overhaul of build costs.

This led to high increases in the mineral costs of those battleships that used to be cheaper. Except for the least popular ships, this increase in build costs has led to market price increases.

Basically, battleships that were cheaper to build than the Hyperion now cost as much to build as the Hyperion.



As a ganker myself, I can say it's pretty easy to avoid us. Highsec aggression rules make it an enormous effort to shoot people in highsec when they are on grid with sentry guns. Generally for us to put in that much effort, you will need to draw our eye - by flying around in a multi-billion ISK fit, or going out of your way to antagonise us, or jumping into a system where we have a bored fleet (which you can tell by looking at player ships lost in the last hour).

In short, you can be safe in highsec, but you have to earn your safety with dilligence and common sense.

However, if you want to get involved in ganking, it is one of the most newbie-friendly professions in EVE. If you want info on how to get started as a ganker, post a new thread and we will help you.

High Sec aggression rules make suicide ganking an enormous effort?? What a bunch of crock. Suicide Ganking is an easy cheap occupation that requires little effort to do. Concord response time / Sentry Guns / Crimewatch do not deter suicide ganking at all. If it did, then the topic of Suicide Ganking wouldn't be brought up.

As for my original post, there was nothing wrong with the info or the advice I posted, other than making it hard for suicide gankers to get an easy kill.

By the way, you don't have to be in a Multi-Billion ISK ship or even antagonize campers to get a suicide gank attempt. Bored campers will definitely try to suicide gank a ship that's on autopilot regardless of the ship type. A few months ago a couple of Ganker Cruisers failed to get my Loki while on autopilot. Of course their effort was rewarded with a visit from Concord which I witnessed just before jumping into the next system. By the time I turned around and went back, their wrecks were already looted.




DMC

I suspect the population of miners is large enough that, for all it generates a lot of drama, the actual effect on mining volume is relatively modest. Furthermore, it's a self-correcting problem; if miner numbers actually drop off, the rewards for the remainder will rise while the incentive to gank drops (fewer targets to find). Also, there's industry outside highsec (and the most recent release was intended to improve the viability of same).

(Nothing in this is intended to be any sort of comment, either way, on the ethics of miner ganking. I'm not trying to do "CODE politics".)

The person who leads this blog needs to be looked at by a professional.

ASAP