EVE New Citizens Q&A

If you steal in HiSec then you will go yellow to everyone ... Not just the victim & his corp.

It can be good fun but if you are doing it in any of the starter systems then ccp may have something to say about it.

Have a look at https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Criminal_Flagging_System and https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Rookie_Systems

You can still dock as long as you haven't got the 1 minute weapons timer.

So if you wanted you can just steal and then go and wait out the suspect timer in the station.

OK, so if I do the following:

1. Approach can
2. Align to station
3. Loot can
4. Warp and dock at station and wait out timer

It's that easy? Where is the risk/repercussions to me?

almost nothing aside from getting a name for yourself,
be aware though the newbie systems are in fact monitored by the gm's so don't make a habit of shinaninganising(©Ralph2014) the brand new players in them.
A hand full of occasions at most to prove the concept for yourself and then you should move that sort of thing out into the world.

Also, if you're able to use combat probes (a fairly short train) you can "Ninja Loot" this is, scan down and enter other players mission area's and do the same thing with their mission items and then well then back to them,
(bear in mind the mission rats might well switch aggression to you , so you could end up with that and an angry player after your head).
We call this "mission flipping" if you are in fact looking for a fight and I would highly recommend it as a gateway into PvP as you can be almost completely assured the target will be pve fit and you can (almost) always disengage if it goes **** up.

Eventually. I'm still only two weeks in.



Rules beyond the rules? I hope they let the noobs goof on each other. At any rate, I'll give it a try.

Are posting of funny rage convos permitted if you edit out the rager's name?

So, I see this "Giant Freight Container" but I cannot open it (locked on it, and approached it, but no option to open it).

I take it that these aren't considered jet cans or are secured in some manner?

edit: Nevermind - when I left clicked the object, "open cargo" didn't show up, but in a separate window "selected item", it gave me the option to open cargo. :P

It was empty. :(

Hardly anyone jetcan-mines anymore. Sometimes you'll find freight containers in belts, but the days of belts littered with cans have been over since the latest iteration on mining barges.

If you want to deliberately flag yourself to see if anyone tries to engage, you can still find yellow wrecks in belts below 0.9 sec.
If you just want to cause a ruckus in local chat for fun, suicide gank someone's barge or Venture. When they come back from being AFK they'll make sure to tell local chat what they thought about the gank.

In populated high-sec it's not a great idea, but when I used to mine in low-sec (a pretty dead system) it was a good way to save time. Rather than returning to station 5 or 6 times, I could fill up my hold plus about two jetcans, dock, and pick up the cans with a Miasmos.

is that lesson that they can get suspect flagged by taking something thats been in your cargo hold?

seriously, the noobies don't mind getting belted around and podded, its a great way to break the ice.
once you convo them afterwards and chat to them (you may want to drop the price of a new ship onto them) it can be a learning experience.

1. Yes
2. Yes
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And, Yes.

Risk? Really, none - especially if no one sees you and aren't paying attention as they won't know who looted the can (it doesn't exactly generate a notification, afterall). Repurcussions? Well, if I were still a highseccer, I would set a trap and wait to snatch you as you went yellow.