EVE New Citizens Q&A

The cardinal rule as you have heard here bears repeating, don't fly what you can't afford to lose!

That said the purpose of bling mods on your ship, or bling implants in your clone, serves two purposes:
1. to allow you to create a better/more efficient fit for your ship you currently do not have the skills to be able to fit properly
2. once you have better skills, the bling mods allow you to take an ordinary fit and make it more deadly/quicker than anything without bling.

A good example of #1 is a PG or CPU implant which will offset low skills in weapon upgrades and advanced weapon upgrades

a good example of #2 is any shield tanked with a caldari invul field, its about 10% better than the easily obtained T2 version and costs about 200% more.

Once you get into bigger ships, esp supercaps, bling is the rule not the exception, since a 2bil mod on a 20bil supercarrier isn't a big deal.

so bling can be had, at a price, but as the KM linked above, fitting with too much bling is just going to make you a target, as a newer player I used to run by the rule that no mod should cost more than the ship. Once I got into T3's and capitals that rule is modified to, no mod is allowed to cost more than everything else (including the hull) it helps keep things sane and reasonable if I lose a ship.

and finally to address your original question directly, yes, the ship is gone forever, and if you get podded so are you (you should end up in a medical clone, ALWAYS MAKE SURE ITS UPTO DATE!) but you can sometimes recover things, or have a friend scoop the loot and even the salvage might get you partly back into a new ship. You should not rely on this though. Once you undock, you need to consider that ship lost, returning in one piece is a bonus, because eventually it will die.

A note about bling ships, as a previous poster said, these are extremely rare and they are not likely to leave the owners hands anytime soon (they stay docked), http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Unique_Ships explains the origin of most of them and why they are so rare.

Triple post ftw!! (posting bug is getting annoying)

The cardinal rule as you have heard here bears repeating, don't fly what you can't afford to lose!

That said the purpose of bling mods on your ship, or bling implants in your clone, serves two purposes:
1. to allow you to create a better/more efficient fit for your ship you currently do not have the skills to be able to fit properly
2. once you have better skills, the bling mods allow you to take an ordinary fit and make it more deadly/quicker than anything without bling.

A good example of #1 is a PG or CPU implant which will offset low skills in weapon upgrades and advanced weapon upgrades

a good example of #2 is any shield tanked with a caldari invul field, its about 10% better than the easily obtained T2 version and costs about 200% more.

Once you get into bigger ships, esp supercaps, bling is the rule not the exception, since a 2bil mod on a 20bil supercarrier isn't a big deal.

so bling can be had, at a price, but as the KM linked above, fitting with too much bling is just going to make you a target, as a newer player I used to run by the rule that no mod should cost more than the ship. Once I got into T3's and capitals that rule is modified to, no mod is allowed to cost more than everything else (including the hull) it helps keep things sane and reasonable if I lose a ship.

and finally to address your original question directly, yes, the ship is gone forever, and if you get podded so are you (you should end up in a medical clone, ALWAYS MAKE SURE ITS UPTO DATE!) but you can sometimes recover things, or have a friend scoop the loot and even the salvage might get you partly back into a new ship. You should not rely on this though. Once you undock, you need to consider that ship lost, returning in one piece is a bonus, because eventually it will die.

A note about bling ships, as a previous poster said, these are extremely rare and they are not likely to leave the owners hands anytime soon (they stay docked), http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Unique_Ships explains the origin of most of them and why they are so rare. (not sure if the list is complete though)

if you die in a t3, you die in real life

...because programming internet spaceship forums (using a customized third party forum software) is Hard :lolccp:

Very much so. Your standard MMO is a game where the aim of playing is to efficiently maximise various numbers on your character sheet. EVE is poorly structured to support this kind of playstyle - you can play EVE this way, but it will be rather frustrating and unfulfilling. Many of the complaints you'll see on the EVE forums stem from people trying to do this, or thinking that they need to do this, and failing to realise their error.

EVE is intended to be radically different from 'normal' MMOs. "Normal" MMOs like WoW are 'won' by getting the highest level/best DPS/highest crit, etc. In EVE the aim of the game is to do things. Skillpoints are gained automatically because you're meant to spend time using your skills to achieve your goals, not grinding them just for the sake of having the highest possible skill. Ships and modules are (with a very few extremely rare exceptions that can be ignored) easily replaced commodity items, because owning a specific ship or fit isn't intended to be an end in itself, but a means to achieve your goals.