EVE New Citizens Q&A

I like the idea of going out to low and null sec to harvest gas and ore. The danger is kind of appealing. But I've been getting my head handed to me quite a bit lately. I've lost a number of ships since I started playing and each one was a learning experience that me better at playing this game. However, I had to replace 2 Prospects in the last 2 days (not that I'm complaining) and I didn't learn a damn thing. I've been playing for 4 months so this is getting expensive.

I know about looking for ships and pods destroyed in the last hour and cynosural fields. Once I've set up a safe spot I don't have too much trouble avoiding trouble. If you pick up combat probes on d-scan it's time to pack up and move on. The problem is they put cyno fields in strategic locations and it's about impossible to get to where I want to go.

I'm going to have to learn how to deal with those things and gate campers. Does anyone have any words of wisdom about doing that? Or can you point me toward information on the internet?

Thanks,

Yeah, I guess I didn't know what cynos were. I Meant those bubbles that you can't warp out of.

The bouncing thing sounds like a good idea. I'll try it, thanks.

Also, I don't suppose there's a way to increase the "warp to within100 km" to something like 200 km?

And is it possible to occasionally come at the gate from a completely different direction. Does that ever work?

I think, maybe I should sacrifice some shuttles and try different stuff.

Thanks for the response.

- Thought so.

- Nope.

- Only if there is a celestial you can get to the gate from (or you're using pings)

- Use frigs with mwd's, set up pings in advance, usually they're about 150-200km in any direction from a gate, and it gives you a better idea of where things are on the gate, where the bubble is etc.

Also are you using a covops cloak on the Prospect? Bit of a waste if you aren't.

Yeah, I have a covert ops cloaking device II. And I'm trying to make my ship as nimble as possible.

When you say pings are you talking about setting up bookmarks ahead of time? I was just reading about that. (Thanks Jonah. That's a big help and it's giving me something to do besides cry about lost ISK . I'll get a ship that's cheap and kind of fast.

Being blue with gate campers and shooting people in the face. I'll have to think about that for awhile. For now it might be more fun to learn how to skate past those guys and wave goodbye.

Thanks for all the help. A lot of good information here.

There are a lot of tricks to getting around low null sec I can name a few that I can think of off the top of my head but I'm not aware of any one location with loads of information aside from say google or youtube.

So the key to staying alive in any space but especially null sec is familiarity. Knowing the space and the locals is your best bet. If you are moving to new space all the time things will be rough. So some of the things you can do to get familiar are set up tactical bookmarks. Those would be book marks near gate that you can warp to and not get caught in bubbles but be able to see what is on grid.

Also there is a lot of skill in using covert ops cloaks properly so you can do some searching on both how to properly use a covert ops cloak to slip past a gate camp and how to camp a gate and catch covert ops cloak users. Even if you don't plan on camping a gate just knowing what other people will be doing to catch you can be helpful.

Interceptors are good for traveling in null since they are bubble free. If you are in NPC null or sov null that you can dock in then set up various stations with what you need and use ceptors to travel from system to system.

Another trick that you can use in some cases is to initiate warp to somewhere like say a gate for example and then cancel warp. That will deplete part of your capacitor so you keep doing that to use up your cap until you see the message about not having enough cap to warp to the destination. So then you finally let the warp go through and once in warp cancel warp which will stop you from auto re-warping once you land. This should get you within D scan range of the gate and give you the ability to D scan for warp bubbles or gate campers while in a semi safe spot.

You could also try joining a sov holding corp so you have blue space to roam around or go to NRDS space which for now I believe is only Provi but those Pheobe Freeport Republic guys might be NRDS also, I'm not sure on that. Either way get familiar with the local residents and you'll know who is who and how they operate and who you need to worry about and who is just patrolling system to see who's around etc... Knowing the locals is a big part of operating in null without loosing too many ships.

Another thing that you could do is scope out a whole bunch of wormholes and find a deep wormhole inside of a wormhole where it doesn't seem like anyone is and try and suck gas in peace. You'll still loose ships that way but if you do it right you will make way more isk than you loose.

Fun factor? Better than afk mining highsec.

Rewards? Half the income because of wasted time safespotting until people leave, hauling farther to a trade hub, and then ship losses if you get blown up.

Its really CCPs fault.

Remember that some areas of Null are NRDS (Not Red Don't Shoot) and as long as you don't annoy the local SOV owners you can use their systems for PvE. Of course, other visitors may still be a hazard, but it will be safer than NBSI Null, and you will have somewhere you can dock up.

Providence is one such NRDS area ... although at the moment just watch out for NC. dropping Titans on anything bigger than a Venture.

How exactly are you being caught? Even if you're in a bubble you can still be cloaked and fly away until you're out.

The biggest danger is if people have dropped stuff in the bubble to decloak you but that doesn't happen often as they would need to have known exactly which direction you're warping from which means you've been located in space.

As for dying in low, that baffles me even more. You know you can warp while cloaked right?

Another tip for cloakies:

When traveling cloaked by gates, deactivate your cloak a couple of seconds before you land on gate. This has two important advantages, first you start your re-cloak timer early, so you can warp cloaked sooner on the other side and second you avoid getting stuck on the outgoing gate because of decloak glitch something. I had it several times when clicking jump and was cloaked, I didn't jump immediately after warp, but decloak, slowboated a couple of seconds and finally jumped.

Also with the new sov mechanics coming I'd expect Provi to become a test bed for the new "toys" if entosis links can be called toys.