EVE New Citizens Q&A

Welcome to Eve!

High sec war decs are something that many new players come across as soon as they join their first high sec corp that isn't the NPC corp and the experience isn't always pleasant. However, you have many options available to you if you find yourself in a corp that is under a war dec.

For example, you can train up a quick hauling alt that you use to buy goods and ship them to where your main character is based. This takes less than a day to do and lets you move things in an NPC corp, safe from war decs. If your corporation has a shipping program (from Jita, for example), you can put an alt character there that never leaves and send it money to buy goods for you and ship it to where you are located.

You also have other means of keeping yourself safe when moving around. For example, you should have the Local window separated and as long as you can make it, using compact view. Keeping an eye on who is in local can let you know whether or not you might be attacked by a war target. You should also try to learn where war targets tend to spend their time. Most of them can be found in and around major trade hubs, like Jita, Amarr, Dodixie and to a lesser extent Rens and Hek. If you avoid those zones when you are at war you might find that you don't run across war targets often.

Another option is to work towards flying fast ships that are difficult to catch (like interceptors) or cloaky ships (like covert ops or blockade runners) to move around high sec with less of a chance of being caught. Note that I said less of a chance, as skilled players can still catch you even using these methods.

If you are in a corp that says don't undock when you are at war, perhaps you should consider finding a corp that has a different set of rules. There are tons of corps out there and surely you will find another group of friends wherever you go. There are also training corps, like Eve University, that are constantly war decced but it also provides a great opportunity to learn how to deal with war decs.

At this point, I no longer fear war decs and they have no impact on how I play the game. I've learned the mechanics and how to keep myself safe. You will learn this too, in time, and perhaps with some losses, but that's okay because this is Eve and everything is meant to be disposable!

Good luck out there!

I understand there are mechanics to have things done anyway, what I don't understand is why game developers let gankers to exploit this wardec system when it's basically used to stay in hi-sec and gank newbies and lonely players more easily than what is already doable.

You all say everyone can be ganked at anytime in hisec, it's acceptable.

What is weird is that in a game with already 99% possibilities to gank or to pvp they give lazy hisec gankers the opportunity of forcing some players to be dock or to leave their corp, because this is what happens.

Okay, so what follows is entirely my personal opinion.

It's not a case of not "catering to the tearfilled entitled", it's a case of us staying true to the core of what EVE was built on.

Some of the people complaining in this thread have valid points about the fact that they don't feel safe. Simple fact of the matter is, that you're not suppose to feel safe in New Eden.

Eve is not a game for the faint hearted. It's a game that will chew you up and spit you out in the blink of an eye if you even think about letting your guard down or becoming complacent.

While every other MMO starts off with an intro that tells you you're going to be the savior of the realm, holds your hand, protects you, nurtures your development and ultimately guides you to your destiny as a hero along with several other million players who've had the exact same experience, EVE assaults you from the second you begin to play after you create a character, spitting you out into a universe that under the surface, is so complex that it's enough to make your head explode.

The entire design is based around being harsh, vicious, relentless, hostile and cold. It's about action and reaction, and the story that unfolds as you experience these two things.

True, we're working hard to lower the bar of entry so that more players can enjoy EVE and can get into the game. Our NPE (New Player Experience) is challenging, and we're trying to improve it to better prepare rookies for what lies out there, but when you start to play eve, you'll always start out as the little fish in the big pond.

The only way to grow is to voraciously consume what's around you, and its your choice whether that happens to be New Eden's abundant natural resources, or the other people who're also fighting their way to the top.

EVE is a playing experience like no other, where every action or reaction resonates through a single universe and is felt by players from all corners of the word. There are no shards here, no mirror universes, no instances and very few rules. If you stumble across something valuable, then chances are someone else already knows where you are, or is working their way toward you and you better be prepared to fight for what you've discovered.

EVE will test you from the outset, from the very second you undock and glimpse the stars, and will take pleasure from sorting those who can survive from those who'd rather curl up and perish.

EVE will let you fight until you collapse, then let you struggle to your feet, exhausted from the effort. Then when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel it'll kick you flat on your ass in the mud again and ask you why you deserve to be standing. It'll test you against every other individual playing at some point or another, and it'll ask for answers.

Give it an answer and maybe it'll let you up again, long enough to gather your thoughts. After a few more steps you're on the ground again and it's asking more questions.

EVE is designed to be harsh, it's designed to be challenging, and it's designed to be so deep and complex that it should fascinate and terrify you at the same time.

Corporation, Alliances and coalitions of tens of thousands have risen and fallen on these basic principles, and every one of those thousands of people has their own unique story to tell about how it affected them and what they experienced.

That's the beauty of EVE. Action and reaction. Emergence.

Welcome to the most frightening virtual playground you'll ever experience.

What you consider to be abuse or excessively punishing isn't important, CCP consider it to be normal gameplay and not a problem; such is the nature of the game.

As for myself I'm no ganker, nor am I a wardeccer. I am familiar with the mechanics and tactics that they use; that knowledge allows me to avoid 95% of their attention, which in turn gets directed at people who don't have that knowledge.

you're getting a little mixed up here, gankers dont wardec, they just shoot you whenever they want, also the economy is reliant on things being destroyed, if you had 100% safety you would put alot of people out of business and ccp would potentially need to rethink the whole game mechanics

I don't agree with you.

They have a much easier way to gank in hisec with extended wardecs, as I've read it's happening.

They don't even need to blow up catalysts and so on, they gatecamp trade hubs after wardeccing at will.

But again, it's not pvp the problem.

I add another consideration, someone in-game said to me it's easier, you leave corp during wardec then back after it.

This thing makes me feel this wardec system even more stupid that what I was thinking at the beginning.

What is awful is to renounce to the social part of the game, that I enjoy much, because if this stupid mechanic of the "dock, avoid being killed or leave the corp during wardec".

In my opinion it's a stupid mechanic, or as it was said a poor mechanic ( I add clearly abused).

No, actually ( not with this avatar obviously ) I already live in a C2 wormhole, and if someone kills me it's acceptable.

The same with my other account, I explore, I die or I live, I flee or I die, acceptable.

My third account I mine in hisec,never ganked so far but it would be acceptable, I keep an eye on the surrounding.

What is awful is to renounce to the social part of the game, that I enjoy much, because if this stupid mechanic of the "dock, avoid being killed or leave the corp during wardec".

In my opinion it's a stupid mechanic, or as it was said a poor mechanic ( I add clearly abused).