EVE New Citizens Q&A

Returning to the game after 3 years of not playing all i have got from it so far is nothing but assholes in space.
My activities and experience the month i have been back is so far:

High-sec mining: Sins i only had about 20mil when i log on i decide to mine for some buffer isk. But thanks to CODE i get suicide ganked and lose more than i gain from mining. No warning, No Chat, Locked, Scramed and Blown to bits, Podded.

Fine sins the player base don't allow for solo mining anymore i just do some exploring, I Buy a magnet and fit it for exploring, All fine until i accidentally pressed "want to leave highsec" and enter a low sec system, Locked Scramed and blown to bits, podded.

I Try again with exploring, this time i use wormhole to get to null-sec, first gate jump: Interdicted and killed, podded.

In summary i have lost on average 2 ships per day to players, and on average being podded half of those times and that's only because they can't use interdiction bubbles. Every time the bubble is there People pod for no reason other than its "fun" to be an *******.

My worst experience so far is when i finally got enough isk buffer to feel that i can buy an astero and covert op cloak. I get to a random null sec system and begin to look for systems with 0 people in it (couse thats the only way not to get killed) after managed to make 2 sites a small gang of 4-5 people start to what i experience as hunt me down. Begins with that only them being at a gate, i only survive the first gate camp thanks to my odd warp-in angle and warp-cloak, after they hunting me through 6 systems my luck finally runs out and i enter a system where a camp is already set up. Thanks to the ******* interdiction bubbles and how cloaking works i have 0 chance of getting away, one of the campers get a lucky align on the short while i am up on overview and decloaks me and 100mil down the drain thanks to random assholes.

During my month back in eve i have meet exactly 1 person in space t hats not been a complete *******.

CCP really promotes people being assholes with their "Don't Fly alone"-program and how easy it is to "Engage on your own terms".

"Engage on your own terms" is a bullshit sentence, if that really were the case i should be able to warp away on my own terms, but thats impossible, a single interdiction bubble cancels out every warp stabs you put on the ship, don't matter if you have 1 or 100, you will not warp away, heck even if you put 3x warp stabs on a ship you will get scramed down sins a single faction module negates it, and it one don't work just stack two and its done, Assholes will always get the upper hand sins its cheap to fit 1-2x scramblers vs 4xstabs (that don't work on bubble camps).

"don't go exploring then" "Don't go to low sec then" "don't go to null sec" "learn to d-scan"

EVE has alot of problem and majority of the playerbase is one of them, sites like zkillboards and eve-kill helps with adding fuel to the the fire.

Another bad experience i get is when running L3 Missions, and that's Assholes that hunt mission runners, Couse everyone knows that you have to have a pvp fit to do L3-missions in a battlecruiser, Scramed, dented the attacker shield before second ******* shows up and finishes the jobb. was lucky and managed to warp away before locked and podded.

Next time CCP makes a "this is eve" trailer, maybe they should show what the game is realy about: Gatecamps, podding, gang ups, warp scrambles, hauler bumpings, mission runner killing, and trick new players with the "help channel" and "eve univeristy" to believe that everyone you meet is not out to kill you.

I'm going to give this game another two weeks, if i continue to face nothing but assholes in this game by then i am contactin customer support for a refund of the subscription.

You lost a retriever with half the slots missing. You could have bought a procurer, tanked it up, and easily survived that gank. That was a decision you made.

Likewise you should usually not be losing cloaky frigates in low-sec and you should definitely not be getting podded. Null-sec can be a little harder, but there are ways to deal with it.

You've made some mistakes that new (and returning) players almost always make. Now you can either learn from those mistakes and figure out how to survive, or you can blame everyone else for being mean. When you come on this forum with your badditude you will be lucky to get any help. If instead you had phrased it "I'm struggling to surive, what can I do better?" you would have been showered in advice.

EVE is a harsh game that can be difficult for new (and returning) players because it rewards exploitation of knowledge. Either you learn or you sink. Playing the blame game won't get you anywhere, except to paint a big target on your back because no one likes a whiner.

3. The Balance on Warp disruption is a problem, interdiction bubbles got 0 counters that i know of

i feel like everyship i see in the overview is a singel lock away from scramble and killing me.

To be honest, the fault lies with CCP's "balance" team, and how they neglected how powerful warb disrupts and interdiction bubbles are, and how little if any that can be done to counter them.
CCP's have done it overly easy for gankers and "pirates" to do what they do without any repercussions. Even Bounty system is hardly even worth pixels it represent.

The Retriver loss was one that i had from playing session years ago when CODE and the like didn't exist or was so low that i didn't even notice them hence my first encounter with 2xCode gankers where "my fault for not hailing the great all mighty james 315"

Losing a cloaky ship is real easy when i at the time didn't even know of the mwd jump trick (no tutorial there) and majority happens due to gate camps either at entry gate(why d-scan only be 14au i do not now) or exit gate camp (now you are dead, period)

My bad attitude on the forums comes from what i revived in game, EVE don't have a nice Beginners guide how you survie tutorial, it has a 12 stop "opputnity" that helps my grandma to dock at the station thats about it, and maybe the clutterd up forum/help chat/xxx thingy have a good, 101 of EVE survival but i have yet to find even a singel one that is up-to date with how all modules got rewamped or changed. Im not struggeling to survive, im struggling to not biomas my character.

How man i painting a bigger target than i already have? when i fly anything lower than 0.9 i feel like everyship i see in the overview is a singel lock away from scramble and killing me.

Gods, you're a whiner. Your bad attitude comes from you, not EvE. You didn't ask the right questions when you got destroyed. Instead of saying "****! These guys are assholes and only want to **** with me!!" you SHOULD have said "Hmm. Okay, what can I do next time to ensure my survival?"

Gallant and Goofus.

Guess which one you are.

Game has Anonymous Online Interaction

OP seems surprised people are "Internet Bad Asses"



It's almost like re-readiing through the Sociopath Survey that got posted a few weeks back ...
Apparently almost everyone that plays EVE is the craziest head-case to walk the planet ever ....
Because it was an anonymous online test .........